VIAVI Solutions - San Jose, CA

posted 3 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
San Jose, CA
Repair and Maintenance

About the position

As a Senior Solutions Engineer at VIAVI, you will play a crucial role in providing both pre-sales and post-sales support to our key customers across the West US region. Your primary responsibility will be to quickly develop a deep understanding of the technical challenges faced by our customers, which may hinder their ability to achieve their product and service delivery objectives. You will leverage your expertise in solution and value selling to build compelling business cases that effectively communicate our value proposition to clients. In this position, you will be tasked with establishing strategic working relationships with assigned clients, ensuring that you understand their technical and business needs. You will work collaboratively with both internal and external teams to anticipate and qualify customer needs, providing technical demonstrations and presentations that showcase our solutions. Additionally, you will collaborate with VIAVI's Support and Engineering teams to address and resolve customer issues, ensuring a seamless experience for our clients. Your role will also involve identifying customer requirements and effectively communicating these needs to our Product Marketing team, helping to shape the future of our offerings based on real-world feedback. This position requires a self-motivated individual who is willing to take on challenges and work independently while also being a strong team player.

Responsibilities

  • Provide direct pre-sales and post-sales support to key customers.
  • Quickly develop a deep knowledge of customers' technical challenges.
  • Demonstrate strength and experience in solution and value selling.
  • Build and demonstrate solid business cases that support the value proposition.
  • Develop customer advocates who sell and build consensus.
  • Establish strategic working relationships with assigned clients.
  • Effectively work with internal/external teams to anticipate and qualify customer needs.
  • Provide technical demonstrations and presentations to customers.
  • Work with VIAVI Support and Engineering teams to help solve customer issues.
  • Identify customer requirements and communicate these requirements to Product Marketing.

Requirements

  • 5 years+ technical experience in Telecommunications/Data communications industry.
  • Understanding of product/service development processes in the Communications and/or Test & Measurement industry.
  • Self-motivated, working independently and willing to accept challenges.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong technical skills in networking, security, applications and/or protocol design.
  • Technology knowledge of IP and Ethernet technologies, Data Center Ethernet, 800/400/100/40/10GigEth.
  • L4-L7 technologies, Routing protocol knowledge, both IPv4 and IPv6 including RIP, BGP, OSPF, ISIS.
  • MPLS Protocol knowledge: RSVP-TE, LDP.
  • Automation and manual testing of networking devices manufactured by Spirent, Ixia, Keysight, Cisco Systems, Nokia, Juniper Networks, Quali Systems.
  • Strong Automation knowledge utilizing common languages such as C/C++, Java, Tcl, Perl and/or Python.
  • Knowledge of VMWare ESXi, Sphere, and Kubernetes.

Nice-to-haves

  • Network/Security certifications, including CCNA, CCIE, JNCIA and/or CISSP.

Benefits

  • Paid time off
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Bonus program
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