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As a Public Sector/Federal Pre-Sales Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp, an IBM company, you will work in a high-performance team environment to drive business development, opportunity demand creation, sales, revenue attainment, territory growth, and customer success by providing pre-sales technical expertise to meet and exceed customer challenges, issues, and objectives. The Fed pre-sales SE’s primary objective is to associate HashiCorp technical value to address and solve customer challenges with a principal focus on driving hybrid/multi-cloud solutions, Fed DevSecOps initiatives, rapid mission/application deployments, specifically in the context of multiple technical and executive audiences. 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