PowerDNS Senior Sales Engineer - remote

Open-Xchange GmbH
Posted 3 years ago
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As a PowerDNS Solution Engineer you will be part of the OX Sales Engineering Team, which helps Open-Xchange sales team sell PowerDNS solutions. 

What we offer

  • Working with a modern cloud software in an international team
  • Use of state-of-the-art technologies and access to exciting projects
  • Freedom to implement your own ideas and assume responsibility
  • The flexibility to work from home or at any location in the OX world
  • First-class equipment and an uncomplicated IT-affine environment
  • Continuous personal development, training and conference offerings
  • Flat hierarchies with "open door" policy, motivating work environment
  • A dynamic environment with many opportunities for personal development
  • Plenty of opportunities to attend conferences and industry gatherings with your co-workers, and an awesome end-of-year party
  • Company sports - entry to various gyms and swimming pools

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage the technical relationship with key customers throughout the Presales cycle
  • Investigate customer needs and pain points and find PowerDNS solutions.
  • Evaluate customer environments, create custom integration concepts, and write SOWs for actual implementations.
  • Manage architecture, design, and documentation for customer solutions
  • Collaborate with the PowerDNS and other product teams to build technical presentations for customer and industry events.
  • Train other OX team members on cutting edge PowerDNS technologies as they are built

Key Skills

  • Good verbal and written communication skills in English - multi-lingual candidates (in German, Dutch, Spanish, French or Italian) have an advantage.
  • Comfortable with DNS and/or network security technologies, solutions. Experience with commercial DNS/Security products is a bonus.
  • Familiar with networking protocols like TCP, UDP, IPv4, IPv6, HTTPS, BGP and Anycast
  • Strong Linux systems administration and Linux networking
  • Comfortable with NFV, Containers, K8s and other virtualization and orchestration technologies.
  • Comfortable with Ansible, Git, Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Level of experience: +5 years

Who we are
We are a hidden champion. When it comes to open source communication, office productivity and DNS-based security software and services, we are one of the leading players out there. Our 300+ employees around the globe are the reason, why our key products –the OX App Suite, Dovecot, and PowerDNS –are used by more than 200 million people for their private and business communications via partners such as Telecom, GoDaddy, Strato, Orange, Comcast, or web.com.
For further questions, please contact Kerstin Florath via recruiting@open-xchange.com