Strategic Accounts System Engineer - Storage Management Solutions in New York, NY

Ajilon Consulting is a global provider of IT solutions with 40 years of experience and offices throughout North America, Europe, and Australia. We support clients' immediate and long-term business needs by delivering a wide array of consultative IT services and by providing contingent consultants on an individual or group staffing basis. Our contingent consultants possess IT skills that supplement internal client resources during workload peaks, fill critical areas of expertise, and staff mission critical projects. With our parent company Adecco, we have a wide presence in North America and globally with more than 6,600 offices in 70 countries worldwide. Together we employ more than 700,000 associates on-assignment supporting over 150,000 clients. Ajilon Consulting a Strategic Account SE responsible for driving software and professional services revenue in our client's strategic account base (typically Fortune 500-1000 accounts). Responsibilities include: . Articulate the company's message & vision to IT executives, mapping the company's strategic direction to customer needs . Create and present the business case surrounded by merits of a storage management solution to C-level executives . Architect creative & innovative the company's storage management solutions aimed at solving business, operational, and financial issues . Propose and demonstrate the company's storage management suite of products through the use of demo's, white board, presentations, etc. . Assist with RFP/RFI responses . Assist, as needed, with industry speaking engagements or seminars . Keep abreast of industry trends, best practices, and competing/complimentary products. Leverage the knowledge obtained in sales cycles . Conduct, manage, and lead customer software pilots or "proof-of-concepts". . Work with internal departments (sales, support, marketing, development), as appropriate, to ensure success during sales campaigns and/or to ensure the customer experience is extremely positive. . Ability to identify and deliver customer requirements, including the ability to provide meaningful field input to the product teams, to enhance our overall platform/value proposition . Travel 40%-50% of the time, nationally. Experience: . BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering or related technical field . 7+ years in the software or storage industry . Experience working directly with senior level Fortune 1000 customers, coupled with a strong understanding of the industry disciplines, technologies and applications relevant to data management solutions . Success penetrating and managing major accounts (Fortune 500-1000) . 5+ years experience serving in a pre-sales systems engineer role . Prior experience leading a team, solving complex business or technical issues (a plus). . Deep understanding of IT infrastructure and operations. . Working or competitive knowledge of Veritas NBU, Legato Networker, TSM, etc . Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills . Prior experience selling, installing, and architecting data management solutions (backup and recovery, data migration, replication, compliance, SRM, etc) . Specialized knowledge/skills and demonstrated proficiency with at least one major open systems operating system (UNIX or NT) . Prior hands-on system administration . Advanced knowledge of Fibre Channel design skills (SAN) . Enterprise application exposure and knowledge of (Oracle, Exchange, Informix, Sharepoint, etc). . Experience with clustering technologies (MSCS, MC/ServiceGuard, etc) . Superior knowledge of tape drives, libraries, storage arrays, storage networking, networking protocols, and general connectivity in multi-platform enterprise environments . Exhibits superb project planning and time management skills To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here