Sr. Sales Engineer

Illumio, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Netherlands

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As a Sr. Sales Engineer, you will develop and nurture relationships with customers across the region, presenting Illumio's solutions through live presentations, webinars, and trade shows.
• You will help to create mutually valuable deals by enlisting discovery skills and tailoring technology proofing activities such as demos and POVs throughout the sales cycle.
• Your performance will be measured against revenue expectations, customer adoption, and your ability to maintain proficiency in cybersecurity domains, Illumio’s products, and salesmanship.
• You will be surrounded and uplifted by other such professionals in a fun and rewarding culture of “Illumineers” that seek to win.
• Develop and nurture both technical and executive relationships across the territory to influence preference for Illumio’s solutions
• Effectively present solutions via live presentations and remote webinars and assist with trade shows, expos, and symposiums
• Uncover the customer’s desired business outcomes and orient all activities in the sales process to these outcomes
• Deliver powerful demos driven by use cases and customer stories
• Support deal progression and POVs as needed via in-person or remote meetings
• Author blog posts, white papers and other thought leading pieces on behalf of Illumio for the security industry
• Assist partners in their enablement pursuits and on deals to maximize mutual benefit
• Advocate for customers on future feature development and support

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience with at least 2 years in a pre-sales capacity handling enterprise accounts
• Working knowledge in one or more of the following areas: cloud migration strategies, services offered by the major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), cloud native development, containers and orchestration, and Infrastructure as Code
• Awareness of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and tooling, especially for cloud native applications
• Development or scripting experience preferred. Knowledge of how to use APIs and methods a plus
• Industry certifications preferred (e.g. CISSP, CCSP, CCIE, AWS Certified Security Specialty Certification, Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate, Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist, etc.)
• Knowledge of risk-based security assessments and frameworks
• Experience administering Windows and Linux
• Outstanding presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
• Ability to connect a customer’s specific business problems to Illumio’s solutions
• University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work with a leader in ransomware and breach containment
• Collaborative and driven team environment
• Continuous growth and professional development
• Flexible work arrangements
• Competitive compensation and benefits package

Skills & Technologies

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Linux

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Remote

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About Illumio, Inc.

Illumio, Inc. provides zero-trust segmentation software that stops breaches from spreading across hybrid-cloud data centers and endpoints. Its platform maps application dependencies, then enforces workload-to-workload communication rules on servers, VMs, containers and bare-metal in real time without network changes. Organizations use Illumio to visualize traffic flows, ring-fence critical assets and meet regulatory mandates. Founded in 2013, the company serves Fortune 500 enterprises and federal agencies from headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.

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