JOB TITLE: SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER - SASE
LOCATION: Bengaluru
SUMMARY
We are seeking a highly skilled Pre-Sales Technical Specialist to join our team, specializing in Versa Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offerings. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional technical expertise and the ability to effectively engage with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to drive the adoption and deployment of Versa SASE solutions.
You will be part of Versa's talented global SE team. This job involves 20 - 30% travel to both domestic and international locations.
EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Electronics, Computer Application
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EXPERIENCE
Minimum of 15+ years of proven experience in security and networking roles, with a focus on designing, implementing, and managing security solution.
Job responsibilities
- Provide pre-sales technical support and technical expertise to our customers and partners with objective to achieve sales targets.
- Establish trusted advisory role with strategic customers and partners (CIO, CISO).
- Enable and/or update partner network on product evolution.
- Perform workshops with prospects or customers on product evaluations and do demonstrations.
- Perform hands-on tests to validate customer proof-of-concept setups, network designs, and network deployments using new products and feature.
- Respond to RFI's/RFP's.
- Provide market and product feedback to product management and back-office.
- Keep up-to-date on competitive solutions, products, and services.
- Author whitepapers, knowledge base articles, and other customer/partner facing content.
Essential Skills
- Experience in planning and designing or operating service provider or large enterprise WAN/LAN networks
- Knowledge on solutions on Cloud security with FWaaS, DLP, CASB, RBI and Malware prevention solutions.
- Knowledge on technologies used in the security scene, such as proxies, SSL/TLS, VPN's, Active Director/SAML/LDAP, threat prevention and mitigation
- Understanding networking and security architectures on the SASE framework.
- In depth understanding of TCP/IP protocol stack and operation.
- Knowledge on WAN technologies and protocols like MPLS, MPLS based VPNs, BGP, OSPF, QoS, NAT, Multicast.
- Knowledge in architecting and/or managing large-scale, high performing and resilient Enterprise networking and security solutions.
- Knowledge on Linux administration.
Desired Skills
- Knowledge on best practices architectures for SaaS applications.
- Hands-on experience in public and private cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, Openstack, VMware.
- Shell scripting, python scripting knowledge.
Competency
- Great analytical thinking.
- Ability to think full stack when it comes to problem solving.
- Ability to learn new technology quickly.
- Excellent hands-on skills in deploying and troubleshooting complex networks.
- Willingness to help customers, peers and other team members at any time.
Our Benefits
Versa Networks is a small but rapidly growing organization. It is built by people with vast experience in the networking industry. We are a pragmatic team with a healthy work-life balance. We offer competitive compensation packages with pre-IPO equity. Additionally, we offer a quality of life benefit to everyone in an inspiring environment with skilled and passionate co-workers. Our exciting company culture offers a great place to work and most important, to have fun.
