5+ years in the Data Protection, or cloud experience 8+ years of experience serving in a pre-sales systems engineer role Demonstrates solid experience delivering, presenting, selling, supporting Enterprise Client Provides strong competitive knowledge of e.g. Symantec NBU, EMC Networker, EMC Avamar, IBM TSM, VEEAM, Symantec Enterprise Vault, Commvault, etc. Proven strong experience selling, conducting Proof of Concept (POC), architecting data management solutions (backup and recovery, data migration, replication, compliance, SRM, etc.) Ability to work in a rapid growth environment Experienced in participating in and building teams of specialists Basic knowledge with common Software licensing practices Specialized knowledge/skills and demonstrated proficiency with at least one major open systems operating system, hypervisor or cloud Enterprise application exposure or knowledge of SAP, Oracle, Exchange, db2, SharePoint, etc. Solid knowledge of infrastructure technologies such as storage, servers, networking, cloud , hyper-convergence, etc. Strong consultative selling skills Solid experience with business case creation and TCO modeling Success penetrating and managing a minimum of three major accounts (Fortune 500-1000) Excellent written, presentation, and communication skills Ability to work in an organized, procedural manner using tools such as Salesforce.com BS or MS degree in Computer Science/engineering or related and proven technical field experience in IT industry preferred Sales methodology experience (TAS, SPIN, Solution Selling, Challenger, etc.) Able to work remotely and autonomously