Senior Sales Engineer

Senior Sales Engineer

Cologne, Germany

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world's biggest brands.

About the Position

At Veeam, our Systems Engineers work closely with sales to help promote our product offerings to our partners, resellers, and end-users. Grow with Veeam while gaining valuable experience in one of the hottest areas of today's IT. These positions require significant travel within the region you are responsible for.

Location: Cologne / Dortmund / Dsseldorf area

Your Tasks

• Conducting presentations and demonstrations at live and virtual customer meetings
• Implementing and managing POCs to technical completion
• Supporting lead generation activities such as events, webinars, user groups, etc.
• Collaborating with the customer/partner to define and implement business goals into technical requirements
• Providing independent consulting to customers to deliver technical expertise on data protection
• Working closely with the sales department to acquire new partners and customers
• Working closely with product management to obtain customer feedback
• Supporting customers pre-sales in evaluating Veeam software

What You Bring

• Proven experience in solution sales and/or technical pre-sales preferred
• Industry experience with data protection technologies
• Industry experience in storage, network, and/or cloud technologies is highly desirable
• Experience with monitoring tools and frameworks
• Proven experience with virtualization technologies
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with limited instructions; energetic, motivated personality capable of quickly learning new technologies
• Ability to adapt to changing tasks and responsibilities
• VMCE certification would be beneficial - employees have the opportunity to acquire VMCE and also VMCA once they have taken up the position.
• Willingness to travel

Bonus Skills

• Providing software solutions in complex environments
• In-depth understanding of Veeam and/or similar technologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; you must be able to present to groups in English and German
• Industry-relevant professional certifications are desirable

We Offer

• 30 paid vacation days plus three global VeeaMe Days for self-care
• Legal health insurance with employer and employee contributions
• Legal pension insurance with employer and employee contributions
• Legal accident insurance, fully funded by Veeam
• Company pension plan with employer contribution
• Additional accident insurance with worldwide 24/7 protection
• 24 paid volunteering hours for community service per year as part of Veeam Cares
• Professional training and development, including courses and workshops, internal meetups, as well as unlimited access to our online learning platforms (LinkedIn Learning, Athena, O'Reilly) and mentoring through our MentorLab program

Please note: If an applicant is permanently located outside of Germany, Veeam reserves the right to decline the application for this position.

Veeam Software is an equal opportunity employer and does not tolerate discrimination in any form on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law. All your information will be kept confidential.

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