Job Description

Role: Sr. Sales Engineer for customer Vodafone/Vodacom in sub-saharian African countries
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Overview: as an experienced Sales Engineer, you will know that you are a crucial part of any technical sales deal. If you are looking for the next step on your career ladder, Juniper Networks can offer you a great opportunity to develop your skills. Working as one of our Sales Engineers, your technical experience will support the assigned sales objectives, and more specifically, you will serve as a fundamental technical resource in our account team for the affiliates of our customer Vodafone/Vodacom in sub-saharian Africa. In return, we can offer a range of benefits and superb career progression. The candidate is going to own pre-sales responsibilities and will be instrumental to identify, develop opportunities with our customer.
Responsibilities: Beyond the classical networking and network products know how, the topics of evolved of fixed broadband access, telco clouds, security for network infrastructure, end-to-end network automation, network disaggregation and virtualisation are becoming key criteria in many customer RFx, bids and discussions. Therefore, the ideal candidate for this position must be able to lead the discussion also in these areas with presentations, deep dive workshops including demos, drive customer POC labs.
Equally important is the ability to develop and nurture personal relationships with key customer technical decision makers through an in-depth understanding of customer's needs, organisational structure and decision process, and a committed approach to offer them unparalleled value and deliver solutions to their business challenges.
If you have:

• At least 6 years of experience in technical/pre-sales support as a sales engineer
• Solid knowledge of advanced routing and switching technologies and solutions: MPLS L3VPN, Segment Routing, Transport SDN (Path Computation Element), CG-NAT, EVPNs, Telemetry etc.
• Solid knowledge in Security for SP infrastructure: SEG, Gi and GRX Firewalls, DDoS mitigation.
• Good knowledge of large campus and Data Center network architectures design/sales.
• Possess broad overall industry experience and technical knowledge on: 5G ORAN and Packet Core architecture, SD-WAN, Network Automation.
• Good knowledge of Kubernetes, Automation tools like Ansible, Terraform and SDN/NFV solutions/architectures is a plus
• Good knowledge of both Juniperxe2x80x99s product line, solutions and the competitive landscape
• Bachelorxe2x80x99s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, related field or equivalent
• Ability to work with account managers and customers within the context of a competitive sales environment
• Excellent communication and presentation skills including ability to present in front of large audiences
• Fluency in english language, spoken and written, is a must.
• Experience with Tier-1 Service Providers as customers is a plus.
• Ability to travel, including Americas and Europe. JNCIA, JNCIS-SEC/SP, JNCIP-SEC/SP, JNCIE-SEC/SP, CISSP, or CCIE certificates are a plus.