Systems Engineer

The primary role of this position is to be responsible for post-sales support of customer technology infrastructure projects.  The System Engineer provides expertise in the areas of configuration, installation, upgrades, troubleshooting and documentation for the administration of all supported software and hardware.

• Provide technical support to assist in the sale, design, configuration, installation and support of company products.
• Conduct and/or participate in demonstrations, customer evaluations and ROI analyses. Deliver technical presentations and respond to technical questions during sales calls. Provide technical content for bids and sales proposals.
• Provide direct sales support in the areas of customer environment information gathering, requirements collection, performance evaluation, and complex configuration planning.
• Stay current on, and maintain an in-depth knowledge of operating systems, hardware systems, peripheral products, conversion techniques, and performance methods of all company offerings.
• Install technology infrastructure solutions at customer sites.
• Train customers on the use of hardware and software.
• Establish and cultivate ongoing business relationships with customers to facilitate additional business.

• Associate’s degree (Computer Science or Information Technology) from four-year college or university; or one to two years’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Two or more years professional technology infrastructure experience, including one or more years selling, maintaining, or installing enterprise infrastructure hardware and software systems.
• Two or more years of enterprise storage systems experience (SAN, NAS, Hierarchical storage systems, RAID, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI).
• One or more years of experience with server virtualization (VMWare required; Hyper V preferred in addition).
• One or more years of experience with data center network implementation/management.
• One or more years of experience with data protection, and replication technology experience, including backup/restore technologies.
• Two or more years experience installing, managing, and administering at least two server Operating Systems (Windows Server, Linux, etc.), including latest versions.

• Previous Dell and/or EMC Storage, Server, Network, and Data Protection experience is highly preferred
• Previous VMware Virtualization, Storage, Network Virtualization, and Management is preferred
• Network (switching/layer 2) configuration, installation, and maintenance a plus

• Requires a minimum of 50% travel for product installations, training and meetings.