Zerto Pre Sales Engineer

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge‑to‑cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world.

Zerto helps customers accelerate IT transformation by eliminating the risk and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption. By replacing multiple legacy solutions with a single Cloud Data Management Platform, Zerto is changing the way disaster recovery, data protection and cloud are managed. With enterprise scale, Zerto’s software platform delivers continuous availability for an always‑on customer experience while simplifying workload mobility to protect, recover and move applications freely across hybrid and multi‑clouds.

Zerto is trusted by over 9, customers globally and is powering Cloud Data Management and resiliency offerings for Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, AWS, and more than 450 cloud services providers.

• Deliver the Zerto message and vision including technical architecture presentations and product demonstrations to prospective customers and partners
• Conduct live and virtual customer meeting presentations and demonstrations
• Support lead generation activities such as events, webinars, user groups, etc.
• Lead technical sales calls
• Qualify sales opportunities in terms of customer technical requirements, competition, decision making process and funding
• Stay current with continuous education of Zerto’s latest software, platforms and cloud solutions
• Act as technical expert to develop and propose solutions that meet the technology and business requirements of customers
• Implement and manage POCs to technical closure
• Ownership of all pre‑sales activities in support of technical evaluation and validation of Zerto solution
• Continuously drive and promote value of Zerto solutions to partners and customers
• Interact with Product Management to ensure the product fills customer requirements and communicate these requirements

• English (Proficient)

• At least 5 to 7 years’ experience of Pre‑Sales Engineering or similar customer facing role, experience preferably in a software or data center environment
• The successful candidate must have a fundamental breadth of technical knowledge in cloud data management, backup and disaster recovery
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Self‑motivated and a self‑starter, comfortable working remotely and autonomously
• Strong practical understanding of Datacenter and Cloud architecture (VMware, Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Thrives in a fast‑paced environment; the ability to handle multiple calls/demos per day with immediate follow up
• Possess a high level of business acumen and experience working with all levels of decision makers including C‑x‑level personnel, helping to bring technology solutions to solve the most critical business challenges
• Ability to travel 50%
• Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent experience

• Working knowledge of  or other major CRM
• Knowledge of or familiarity of real‑life IT environments
• Enterprise‑level systems administration, recovery, and configuration
• Experience in server, storage, and network administration
• Decent practical working with and administration of Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, or other mass‑market databases
• Strong Linux or UNIX administration skills & familiarity with the installation and configuration of Linux or UNIX operating systems & setup and operation of TCP/IP networking on Linux or UNIX systems
• Experience with Power Shell, shell scripting or REST API scripting
• Ability to test and setup customer‑like computing environments for demo/troubleshooting purposes
• Understanding of computer and networking hardware, network routing, configuration, etc.

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