Solutions Engineer for the Central Region

The Solutions Engineer will conduct presentations, demos, installation and training on 8e6 Technologies solutions for prospects, customers and resellers. Responsibilities: Identify customers' needs and sales opportunities to maximize and grow sales. Participate in ongoing product development and improvement cycles Provide product support at industry trade shows Participate in all appropriate product, sales and procedural training and/or certification to acquire and maintain the knowledge necessary to be effective Solutions Engineer Provide technical sales assistance to the sales team. Product Installation and training during the evaluation phase of the sales cycle. Maintain technical relationships with current prospects and customers. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience. Solid verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal communication skills. Strong knowledge of data networking (switches, routers, proxy servers, cache engines, firewalls). Troubleshooting experience at the network level. Experience in any or all the following protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SMTP, SNMP, LDAP Hands on command line experience with Unix/Linux based OS is desirable. Experience in script development is a plus. Familiarity with Directory Services: Active Directory, eDirectory, LDAP 50% Travel is required. 3+ years experience.