Sr. Systems Engineer Windows expertise

Description:Job Summary:As a Systems Engineer in NetApp's Sales function, you are responsible for providing pre-sales and post-sales support for selling NetApp's Products and Professional Services to existing and potential customers. You will utilize your excellent technical and relationship building skills in working with vendors, partners and sales to ensure that optimum systems solutions are provided to customers.In this position your overall focus areas will be in supporting and developing processes and systems for quick and thorough responses to customer RFP's, provide systems configuration recommendations, and apply your background and experience to deliver solutions to technical problems. Essential Functions:The essential responsibilities of the Systems Engineers are to work directly with customers in pre-sales and post sales situations, and to work effectively across functions with other NetApp employees in Sales, Marketing, Customer Service and Development areas. Specific responsibilities include:- Identify customer needs and requirements.- Define all of the elements of a customer's technical computing environment.- Answer customer questions.- Provide technical support to current customer and 'try-and-buy' test projects.- Define customer acceptance criteria for 'try-and-buy' evaluation projects.- Pick up and deliver NetApp evaluation test system to customer site.- Work with Sales to respond to RFP's.- Attend customer calls with the Sales Representative.- Provide technical consultation and disseminate product information to the sales team.Education and Experience:- 0 to 2 years of experience is required. - A Bachelor of Arts or Sciences Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science; or equivalent is required.- Experience which demonstrates an ability to understand and communicate technical solutions selling concepts is beneficial.Qualifications:Requirements:- Good written and verbal communication skills. - Good interpersonal communication and customer service skills are needed in order work successfully with prospects, customers, and cross functional teams to meet performance goals.- Account management and project management experience.- Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a customer facing environment. - Ability to follow standard engineering principles and practices.- Creative approach to problem solving.- Travel to the prospective customer's sites as necessary.Responsibility and Interaction:Responsibility: - This individual will apply attained experiences and knowledge in solving routine problems using established policies and standard practices.- Is responsible for a specific geographical install base.Interaction: - This individual effectively works with internal personnel.- Regular and detailed direction is provided to them by their manager on regular work; as well as on-going review of activities and priorities.- The ideal candidate contributes proactively to team efforts.Salary/Benefits: > $100,000To learn more about NetApp employee benefits go to: http://www.netapp.com/jobs/benefits.htmlJob Location: Houston, TXJob Number: RUSANAP2212-609320Company URL: http://www.netapp.comCompany Profile:NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that help accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Our dedication to principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today.Customers around the world choose us for our "go beyond" approach and broad portfolio of solutions for business applications, storage for virtual servers, disk-to-disk backup, and more. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes so you can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before. You can rely on our industry-leading solutions to lower the cost of protecting your data, business, and reputation.We bring together the industry's best partners and technology to deliver services that help you maximize what you are getting from your infrastructure. Our collaborative approach, working as one team with one goal, means that you get a solution that is just right for you-on time and on budget. To support your global business, we provide highly-responsive support in local languages. From London to Austin, from Bangalore to Tokyo, well work with you to solve your problems and help you reach your goals.Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com