Salary
💰 $114,000 - $208,000 per year
Tech Stack
CloudKubernetesLinuxOpen Source
About the role
- Collaborate with sales reps to move opportunities through qualification, proof/evaluation, proposal phases, and closure
- Provide presales technical assistance for complex telco solutions and guide customers in defining technology goals
- Support Solution Architects in technical discussions, lead deeper conversations, validate concepts through POCs
- Research and draft responses to RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs using SUSE's Telco solutions
- Analyze customer business needs and apply relevant telco technologies (RAN, Core Networks) to IT landscapes
- Act as a bridge between customers and internal teams like Technical Support & R&D
- Contribute technical expertise to complex solution development efforts and co-create go-to-market plans
- Assist marketing initiatives and contribute to content development
- Ensure alignment between product capabilities and customer needs; influence technical direction
Requirements
- Deep technical expertise in telecommunications industry
- Extensive Telco pre-sales experience
- Proven ability to translate deep technical knowledge into proposals, presentations, demos, and workshops
- Deep understanding of core telecom networks (voice/data), Radio Access Networks (RAN), and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
- Technical communication skills and ability to simplify complex telco/edge/cloud-native concepts for non-technical audiences
- Leadership & interpersonal abilities; experience influencing stakeholders in a global setting
- Expertise with Linux operating systems, provisioning, patch management, configuration management
- In-depth knowledge of telco market technologies: Core Networks, Fixed Access, RAN, NFV
- Container management & cloud-native computing (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Proficiency with DevOps tools and methodologies; understanding of hybrid cloud infrastructure including security aspects like containers/Kubernetes/Edge solutions