Solutions Engineer (Atlanta)

Location: Florida, Georgia

Alkira is growing our Solutions Engineering team and looking for high energy, dedicated professional who can help add new clients to our SaaS platform. This is a full-time position with great benefits. The ideal candidate is able to demonstrate key technical differentiators of Alkira service and help our large strategic Enterprise accounts transform their network to become disruptive, creative and innovative. As a Solutions Engineer, you are not only responsible for helping the Sales team but also helping shape the roadmap by providing a deep level understanding of customers technical needs.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to present and demo Alkira service to Technical decision makers
• Clearly articulate the Alkira value proposition and have a sound understanding of market, industry and competitive landscape
• Partner with Alkira Account Managers to understand customer requirements and pain points. Assist with any technical asks from customers and help respond to RFP/RFIs
• Lead and conduct Proof of Concepts
• Assist customers with design and deployment based on best practices
• Work with Alkira Product Management team to provide feedback on upcoming features from the customer’s lens
• Track and drive key customer features/asks with Alkira Product Management to implementation

Requirements:

• Minimum 5+ years of technology sales, preferably in a SaaS business environment
  
• Strong cloud and networking fundamentals
• Experience in large-scale network designing/deployment is a plus
• Good understanding of how enterprises extend cloud connectivity using using a variety of Networking Technologies (i.e. Cloud On-Ramps, SD-WAN and IPsec)
• Strong passion for sales and creating long-lasting professional relationships
• Relevant Technical certifications are a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• BA/BS/MS Degree are a plus

About Alkira: 

Alkira was founded in 2018 by Amir and Atif Khan, the visionary computer networking team that created the multi-billion-dollar SD-WAN market with the founding of Viptela. Now, we have reinvented networking for the cloud era by delivering Network Infrastructure On-Demand, the first global unified network infrastructure with on-demand hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity, integrated network and security services, end-to-end visibility, controls and governance, all delivered as-a-service.

Alkira is the leader in Network Infrastructure On-Demand. Alkira provides a unique value proposition by offering:

• On-demand network infrastructure as-a-service with integrated security and networking services available globally
• The ability to securely connect any cloud, any on-prem location, any remote user or app to any other point of presence
• Agility, elasticity, intelligence, security, and scale for traditional networking use cases
• A platform to build global, secure networks in minutes, eliminating the need to acquire hardware, manage physical circuits, and run software appliances or agents on-site

Join us on the multi-cloud networking journey. Click here to know more about how Alkira, Inc is reinventing networking! Also, check out other career opportunities at our careers site.