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That’s why we invest deeply in both personal and professional development to ensure our team members have the tools and opportunities they need to excel.\nBy joining our agile Sales team, you will collaborate with industry-leading professionals who are passionate about pioneering Zero Trust Segmentation.\nYour Impact:\nAs a Sales Engineer, you will develop and nurture relationships with customers across the region, presenting Illumio's solutions through live presentations, webinars, and trade shows. You will help to create mutually valuable deals by enlisting discovery skills and tailoring technology proofing activities such as demos and POVs throughout the sales cycle. Your performance will be measured against revenue expectations, customer adoption, and your ability to maintain proficiency in cybersecurity domains, Illumio’s products, and salesmanship. You will be surrounded and uplifted by other such professionals in a fun and rewarding culture of “Illumineers” that seek to win.\nDevelop and nurture both technical and executive relationships across the territory to influence preference for Illumio’s solutions\n\nEffectively present solutions via live presentations and remote webinars and assist with trade shows, expos, and symposiums\n\nUncover the customer’s desired business outcomes and orient all activities in the sales process to these outcomes\n\nDeliver powerful demos driven by use cases and customer stories\n\nSupport deal progression and POVs as needed via in-person or remote meetings\n\nAuthor blog posts, white papers and other thought leading pieces on behalf of Illumio for the security industry\n\nAssist partners in their enablement pursuits and on deals to maximize mutual benefit\n\nAdvocate for customers on future feature development and support\n\nYour Toolkit:\n5+ years of industry experience with at least 2 years in a pre-sales capacity handling enterprise accounts\n\nWorking knowledge in one or more of the following areas: cloud migration strategies, services offered by the major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), cloud native development, containers and orchestration, and Infrastructure as Code\n\nAwareness of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and tooling, especially for cloud native applications\n\nDevelopment or scripting experience preferred. 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