Senior Solutions Engineer (East)

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Home, KS
5-7 Years Experience
Information Technology
The Role
The Senior Solutions Engineer will provide technical and strategic leadership within the regional sales team, developing solutions for customers and ensuring their success throughout the customer lifecycle. Responsibilities include pre-sales and post-sales support, technical demonstrations, and collaboration with customers and internal teams to address challenges and requirements.
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Summary:

VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) is a global provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions for telecommunications, cloud, enterprises, first responders, military, aerospace, and railway. VIAVI is also a leader in light management technologies for 3D sensing, anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, government and aerospace applications.
We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are passionate about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company – to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.
Senior Systems Engineer – East

Duties & Responsibilities:

Job Summary:

VIAVI’s experienced Senior Systems Engineer, located in the Eastern Region (US or Canada), will be an essential member of VIAVI’s regional sales team and work closely with VIAVI’s strategic customers and industry experts. 

In this role, the Senior Systems Engineer will provide technical and strategic leadership and be responsible for developing solutions to our customers' need which will lead to overachievement of a defined territory quota. This individual will also perform a critical role throughout the entire customer lifecycle, including technical discovery, qualification, solution definition, demonstration, proof of concept, and automation project delivery.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Provide direct pre-sales and post-sales support to key customers.
  • Quickly develop a deep knowledge of customers' technical challenges that inhibit their ability to achieve stated product / service delivery objectives.
  • Demonstrating strength and experience in solution and value selling and the ability to build and demonstrate solid business cases that supports the value proposition.
  • Developing customer advocates who sell and build consensus and the ability to influence key decision makers.
  • Establish strategic working relationships with assigned clients and under each client’s technical and business needs.
  • Effectively work with internal/external teams to anticipate and qualify customer needs.
  • Provide technical demonstrations and presentations to customers.
  • Work with VIAVI Support and Engineering teams to help solve customer issues.
  • Identify customer requirements and communicate these requirements/feature requests to Product Marketing.

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements:

Ideal Qualifications & Experience:

  • 5 years+ technical experience in Telecommunications / Data communications Industry.
  • Understanding of product/service development processes in the Communications and/or Test & Measurement industry.
  • Self-motivated, working independently and willing to accept challenges.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong technical skills in networking, security, applications and/or protocol design is desired.
  • Technology knowledge of IP and Ethernet technologies, Data Center Ethernet, 800/400/100/40/10GigEth. L4-L7 technologies.
  • Routing protocol knowledge, both IPv4 and IPv6 including RIP, BGP, OSPF, ISIS. MPLS Protocol knowledge: RSVP-TE, LDP.
  • Automation and manual testing of networking devices manufactured by Spirent, Ixia, Keysight, Cisco Systems, Nokia, Juniper Networks, Quali Systems etc.
  • Strong Automation knowledge utilizing common languages such as C/C+, Java, Tcl, Perl and Python.
  • Knowledge of VMWare ESXi, vSphere, and even Kubernetes desired.
  • Network/Security certifications, including CCNA, CCIE, JNCIA and or CISSP are a plus.
  • Ability to travel in Americas and overseas (50%).

If you have what it takes to push boundaries and seize opportunities, apply to join our team today.

VIAVI Solutions is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer – minorities/females/veterans/persons with disabilities.

Job Posting Pay Range:

115,500

to

214,500

Exceptional qualifications, experience and location may impact salary. VIAVI offers a competitive benefits package that includes paid time off, health, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and a bonus program.

Top Skills

Ethernet
Ip
Mpls
Networking
Telecommunications
The Company
Chandler, Arizona
4,570 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

VIAVI Solutions (NASDAQ: VIAV) is a global leader in both network and service enablement and optical security performance products and solutions. Our technologies contribute to the success of a wide range of customers – from the world’s largest mobile operators and governmental entities to enterprise network and application providers to contractors laying the fiber and building the towers that keep us connected

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