Systems Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

ABOUT OUR FIRM: 

Lightspeed Human Capital Management Inc. is considered a global leader in the recruitment of top Sales, Technical Sales (Pre/Post), Support, Marketing, Product Management and Product Marketing candidates in the Mobile/Technology space. In the past year, the Lightspeed Recruiting team has delivered top level candidates for the clients considered BEST IN CLASS  including award winners – focusing on Wireless, Networking, Security, Archiving, Storage and Mobility worldwide.  Our candidates have repeatedly been the TOP candidates in Sales Achievement, Leadership and Business Excellence. How we do know? Our clients call to Thank Us a Year after placements are made…this is success.

CLIENT INDUSTRY: Networking

COMPETITORS: SDN NFV networking vendor including Cisco, HP, Juniper, Arista Networks, Big Band Networks
FUNDING: Solid VC funded Series A, equity play 

REPORTING TO:  VP Sales Engineering

Job Description

Representing the technical solution of our SDN/NFV client is the primary responsibility of a Systems Engineer. With an advance in technology and representing a solid solution for the networking industry - our client is making the way enterprise handles networking cutting edge. Our client is looking for a passionate, entrepreneurial, and technically savvy sales engineer to help our customers and partners evaluate, adopt and expand the use of their networking product.

Job responsibilities:

  • Provide pre-sales technical support and technical expertise to our customers and partners
  • Perform hands-on work with customers during product evaluations and post-sales
  • Perform hands-on tests to validate customer proof-of-concept setups, network designs, and network deployments using new products and feature
  • Integrate Products into existing management, monitoring, and provisioning frameworks
  • Create design guidelines and recommend improvements to customers for the networks they support
  • Provide feedback to product management and engineering
  • Keep up-to-date on competitive solutions, products, and services
  • Author whitepapers, knowledge base articles, and other customer/partner facing content

Qualifications

Job requirements:

  • Expert knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet, Layer2 (RSTP/MSTP, VLAN/VXLANs etc.), Layer3 (IP Routing, OSPF, BGP, etc.), and networking management
  • Expertise in at least one area of related technologies - virtualization, storage, Web 2.0        applications, etc
  • Knowledge in architecting and/or managing large-scale data-center networking solutions
  • Basic Linux experience. You don’t need to be a Linux admin
  • Experience in automation and management at scale a huge plus (e.g. Ansible, Saltstack, Puppet)
  • Knowledge of cloud networking ecosystem (Openstack, containers, NSX, etc)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Knowledge of competitive products, solutions, and services



Additional Information

Lightspeed Human Capital Management Inc. is a global leader in international recruitment services, specializing in Network Optimization, Service Assurance, Security, OSS/BSS, and SDN/NFV within the telecom space.  Lightspeed works with leading clients in the technology sector and is always looking for exceptional candidates searching for their next opportunity. If this sounds like you, connect with us on LinkedIn, follow us on Twitter @talentxfactor, and visit our website www.talentxfactor.com.