Sales Engineer - Enterprise

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Sales Engineer - Enterprise - Anticipated.4

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Job TitleSales Engineer - Enterprise
Category Sales

Requisition Code

Anticipated.4
Location 1. CHICAGO, IL, 60601 US
2. US-Work from Home San Antonio, TX 78218, US
Education Bachelor's Degree
Job Type Full-time
Shift/Hours
Travel Required 0
Job Description

The Opportunity: Rackspace is seeking world class presales Solution Engineers (SEs) to join our Enterprise Technical Sales team. Rackspace SE serve as a technical pre-sales support resource for Rackspace sales teams and customers. SEs utilize their deep technology expertise to help design supportable, scalable technology solutions based on requirements provided by customers or prospects. SEs support Rackspace sales efforts by positioning our unique cloud, hybrid, and dedicated infrastructure solutions against those of our competitors while translating the technical merits of the solution into value for clients.

The technical demands of the SE role at Rackspace are significant. Successful candidates will possess hands-on experience with a broad variety of Enterprise computing infrastructure and cloud computing technologies.

Job Requirements

Must Have:

- 10+ years of customer facing experience in a technical consulting, systems engineer, or presales engineering role.

- A track record of success developing and deploying creative technical solutions to business problems for or within large enterprise organizations.

- Understanding of technology and industry issues that impact business units and IT organizations within large enterprise organizations.

- The ability to adapt communication style to suit audiences ranging from individual engineers and developers to senior management at the VP and C-level.

- Excellent oral and written communication skills.

- Experience designing and deploying computing infrastructure solutions that span a variety of technologies (ie storage, networking, compute).

- Comfortable navigating through and extracting detail from the sometimes ambiguous requirements provided by customers and prospects.

- A deep passion for technology and a love of learning new things.

- Comfort operating in a fast paced environment that's constantly evolving and changing.

- Strong critical thinking and communication skills.

- Bachelor's degree in an Engineering, Science, Information Technology or Business discipline.

Nice to Have:

- One or more relevant industry recognized certifications: ie RHCE/A, MCITP, CCNA, VSP, CISSP, ITIL foundations.

- Hands-on experience with cloud computing (IaaS or PaaS) platforms.

Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) a world leader in hosting delivers enterprise-level managed hosting, cloud hosting, and e-mail hosting services to businesses of all types and sizes globally. Today we serve thousands of customers from data centers around the world. Rackspace integrates the industry's best technologies and practices for each customer's specific needs delivering it as a service via the company's commitment to Fanatical Support®. We serve as an extension of our customers' IT departments enabling them to focus on their core business. Rackspace was founded in 1998 and since then has had significant growth year after year. There are now over 5,000 Rackers employed worldwide dedicated to providing customers our premier hosting services. More about the Rackspace Cloud business unit: Do you want to be part of creating the next generation of computing? Rackspace Cloud is the leading innovator in cloud computing, and we are defined by Fanatical Support-not just for our clients, but for our team. Rackers have the freedom to do great work, and the challenge of using their skill and ambition to drive the future of the Web. Rackspace Cloud provides on-demand scalable website, application, and storage hosting. We enable developers and business decision-makers to avoid the hassles and costs of dedicated hardware while offering the infinite scalability of the Cloud.

Rackspace Hosting is an Equal Opportunity Employer

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this classification. It is not designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of the employee assigned to this job.

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