AppD Senior Sales Engineer

Company: AppDynamics
Location: Houston
Posted on: October 19, 2020

Job Description:

Please note this posting is to advertise potential job opportunities. This exact role may not be open today, but could open in the near future. When you apply, a Cisco representative may contact you directly if a relevant position opens.

About Us

AppDynamics is an application performance monitoring solution that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide real-time visibility and insight into IT environments. With our unique AIOps solution, you can take the right action at exactly the right time with automated anomaly detection, rapid root-cause analysis, and a unified view of your entire application ecosystem, including private and public clouds. Using AppDynamics, you’ll finally align IT, DevOps, and the business around the information that helps you protect your bottom line and deliver flawless customer experiences at scale.

About You

To be a successful Sales Engineer at AppDynamics, you need to have experience in a sales engineer or customer-facing role, and be passionate about technical sales and working with customers. Ideally, you are ambitious and self-motivated, and have experience with application performance management technologies and techniques and Cloud and Big Data technologies. Other qualifications we are looking for include:

3-5 years experience working with at least one of the following languages: Java, .NET, PHP, JavaScript

Experience and competence working at OS command lines including Unix, Linux and Window command prompts.

Experience with Unix/Linux/Windows shell scripting

Knowledge of basic networking components and concepts. Ability to troubleshoot basic networking issues that may prevent communication between hosts

Experience with web servers and common relational databases used in today’s application architectures. Ability to understand SQL.

Excellent communication and presentation skills

Passionate about technical sales and working with customers

Ambitious and self-motivated with a high emotional IQ

Ability to work on multiple opportunities & POCs concurrently

Highly coachable with a strong desire to improve and grow as a professional

Travel up to 50%

Qualifications

Experience with application performance management technologies and techniques

Experience with Cloud and Big Data technologies

Experience with common .NET web application architecture frameworks, distribution mechanisms and messaging components such as ASP.NET, ASMX, WCF, MSMQ, etc.

Experience with common Java web application architecture frameworks, distribution mechanisms and messaging components such as servlets, struts, Spring, EJB, web services, RMI, JMS, MQ-Series, etc.

About the Role

As a Sales Engineer at AppDynamics, you will be responsible for providing world class pre-sales technical support to the sales team. Working directly with customers you will be the subject matter expert on application performance management and AppDynamics. You will be responsible for delivering product demonstrations that directly address customer pain and emphasize AppDynamics’ industry leading APM solutions. During the sales cycle, you will lead the proof of concepts, demonstrating AppDynamics’ ability to meet and exceed customer requirements, often in the customer’s production environment. Finally, you will have the opportunity to work directly with our Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, and Marketing teams to share your knowledge and experiences to ultimately improve our business and our customers’ success.

Perks

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401k match (4.5%)

Wellness perks (gym, hobbies, education, store discounts, personal finance)

4 weeks PTO, 5 days VTO, 14 holidays (including 1 birthday PTO and 1 floating holiday)

Mandatory company shut down between Christmas and New Years

Just a note

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