Sales Engineer, EMEA South, Italy

EDB is looking for an Italian speaking Database Sales Engineer to join our team of sales engineering professionals. As a Sales Engineer at EDB, you will be responsible for supporting the sales team in all technical aspects of the sales process including presentations, demos, proof of value, pilots, technical workshops, technical account management etc. You will work close with Field & Insides Sales, Partners, Product Management & Engineering to be a conduit of technical requirements to & from EDB to our clients. It is anticipated most of the business will be in Italy and the Med region.
 

Qualifications: 

• Relational database experience (PostgreSQL or Oracle and MySQL or SQL Server or Sybase or DB2). Active use or, administration of such database(s)
• Customer-facing experience either in a pre-sales, sales engineering, consulting, or support capacity 
• Collaborative with internal teams and external stakeholders, with a solutions focus 
• Fluency with Italian and English

Mandatory:

• Experience with High Availability, Scalability, Performance trade-offs, Security & related concepts
• Cloud experience with one of these cloud providers: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMWare Cloud, and OpenStack, Virtualisation

Preferred: 

• Ability to conduct product proof-of-value from initial requirements gathering to successfully achieving objectives and success criteria through clear planning and methodical execution
• Experience with Containers (Docker), Kubernetes, Microservices, PaaS (OpenShift, CloudFoundry)
• Knowledge with one of these programming languages: Java, Python, node js, ruby, C/C++ using database connectors (JDBC, python, node js, ODBC)