Senior Sales Engineer

About Core Site:

Core Site is a leading colocation data center company providing the space, power, cooling and connectivity that businesses rely on to operate and grow. Our data centers bring dozens of organizations together under one roof, supporting the technology and services that keep our world connected. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, bringing the expertise, ideas and commitment that power our business and help our customers succeed.

With a culture built on collaboration, ownership, and operational excellence, Core Site is a place to make an impact.

The Senior Sales Engineer is responsible for leading the technology evaluation and solution design stages of the sales process and serves as the primary technical advisor and product advocate in close collaboration with the Sales team. This role ensures that Core Site's products and service offerings align with customer requirements to drive value and deal success. The Senior Sales Engineer must be able to articulate technical concepts and product positioning to both business and technical stakeholders, while identifying and resolving all technical issues within assigned accounts to ensure complete customer satisfaction and continuity throughout all stages of the sales process.

The Senior Sales Engineer evaluates customer requirements and business processes to prepare, present, and promote tailored business solutions, while ensuring the quality and integrity of the overall sales process to support proper implementation and deal profitability. This role requires proficiency in both business operations and the technical aspects of datacenter infrastructure, including mechanical and electrical systems, as well as IP transit and carrier networking.

• Participate in customer-facing meetings to align strategic objectives and determine business and technical requirements for tailored solution development.
• Drive customer confidence and acceptance by articulating value through demonstrated cost savings and operational efficiencies.
• Manage assigned accounts and opportunities, ensuring ongoing customer satisfaction, retention, and account growth.
• Demonstrate leadership presence by ensuring the site and computer rooms are consistently customer-ready, reinforcing a culture of operational excellence.

• Evaluate customer deployment requests against Core Site's data center deployment criteria to determine feasibility.
• Prepare and deliver technical proposals, analysis, and architectural design overviews for existing and potential customers.
• Lead in-depth product and solution discussions, clearly communicating features and benefits aligned with Core Site's service offerings.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments of customer IT environments, including network, power, cooling, and space, and design tailored solutions, including on-site walkthroughs.
• Develop deep technical expertise in Core Site's infrastructure to optimize space and power utilization and propose future improvements.
• Prepare cost estimates by both studying blueprints, drawings, and customer-provided documentation, and by consulting with other technical experts as needed.
• Promote core space/power solutions and interconnection services (e.g., OCX, Any2), ensuring competitive, value-driven designs that support deal conversion.
• Perform technical qualification by actively listening and asking thoughtful, strategic questions to uncover customer needs, technical requirements, and solution readiness.
• Develop and maintain deep technical expertise in electrical and mechanical design, built capacity, and design capacity of each computer room, including space, cooling, power, and distribution.
• Coordinate with external vendors and contractors to evaluate, select, and/or integrate third-party technical solutions as required by the customer environment.

• Manage and optimize designs while maximizing leasable square footage.
• Select panels for dedicated, shared, and power-through-portal deals, monitoring and managing the case queue daily.
• Track panel quantity and balance Power Distribution Units…