Pre-Sales/Systems Engineer - Service Provider Acc's Turkey

• Location: Istanbul, Turkey

• Area of Interest Engineer - Pre Sales and Product Management

• Job Type Professional

• Technology Interest Service Provider

• Job Id 1227624

What You'll Do

This high profile role aims at supporting Global Service Providers in mobility and networking in the transition to cloud and virtualized business models.

As Cisco is intensifying its presence in the Turkish market we are searching energetic and highly passionate individuals who can complement the existing workforce in the Global Service Provider organization.

Who You'll Work With

The role requires both strong sales skills, communication skills and deep expertise in the area of Service Providers, especially in mobility, networking and software with SDN and virtualization in mind.

The Systems Engineer is in charge of the following activities:

• Develop consultative approach for a direct touch sales model

• Provide technical and sales support to customers

• Perform technical presentations and develop strong interlock within Cisco functions

• Assist with the development of formal sales plans and proposals for assigned opportunities.

• Support and address critical projects as well as critical situation and escalations, as needed

• Actively participate as a specialist on assigned virtual team and provides consultative support in their area of specialization to other Systems Engineers.

Who You Are

The Systems Engineer has the following skills:

• Team player is a must as roles implies to work efficiently with many parties: Sales, customers, Cisco Business Units.

• Ability to articulate a value-add proposition of a solution in front of both technical and non-technical audience

• Demonstrated sales and consultative skills.

• Good balance between hands-on capabilities and theoretical technical knowledge.

• Broad Service Provider and Telco architectures knowledge and understanding.

• Demonstrated experience matured with complex Service Provider projects and solutions

• Knowledge in several areas of specialization amongst:

• SP Routing, Transport, Core and Egde

• SDN and Virtualization, NFV

• Data Centre and IT infrastructure

• Cloud and Managed Services

• Orchestration and Automation

• NMS/OSS

• SP Mobility

Profile

• Typically BSc/MSc studies from university in IT, programming or equivalent

• 8-12 years of experience as pre-sales systems engineer or similar post.

• Cisco product experience or relevant experience in key competitor offerings

• CCNP & CCDP Certification , CCIE is highly desirable and preferred

• In-depth knowledge of baseline SE skills (Routing and Switching, mobile and Wireline technologies)

• In-depth knowledge and consulting experience in a number of areas of specialization, including SP Routing, SP Core and Edge, Optical, SDN and Virtualization, Cloud and Data Centre.

• Knowledge of relevant solutions sets, product line specifications, performance criteria and applications

• Ability to learn by doing and put thoughts into actions

• As multi-tasker you show an open, organized and structured way of working in a time-managed manner with a permanent follow-up of activities.

• Share our values, notably: Teamwork, Dedication to Customer Success, Innovation & Learning, Life cycle Approach, Accountability, Openness, and Ownership.

• Your enthusiastic social skills allow you to easily integrate in an existing team; you like to take initiatives and are autonomous minded.

• Excellent verbal and written communication, listening, negotiation and presentation

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