Presales Tech Consultant - EDB

Job Description:

This position will require interacting with customers/prospects/partners on a regular basis, driving technical discussions to support sales in region.
Engage with existing customers and business partners, providing EDB technical expertise to help clients solve business problems and grow the subscription and services business.
Provide subject matter expertise to ensure planned sales targets are achieved.
Work with EDB professional services to build statement of work required in the deployment of EDB solutions Assist clients and partners to build training and enablement plans
Provide single point of technical contact for partner engagements, liaising with local EDB SE's to provide necessary tech support to opportunities
Provide EDB product management & engineering guidance on EDB product usage and performance. Also provide product management competitive information

Qualifications:

8+ years of experience in Database Industry with hands on experience with PostgreSQL or EDB Postgres databases or Oracle databases
Customer-facing experience with the ability to identify customer pain points just not in terms of database specific needs but the overall platform and data needs.
Strong relational database experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server). Active use or, administration of such database(s);
Good understanding of NoSQL, unstructured data store concepts and familiarity with MongoDB, Hadoop, Cassandra etc.
Tuning and debugging experience with DB Server, SQL and SQL Query
Basic to intermediate Linux system administration experience
Good understanding of High Availability, Upgrades/patching, Scalability, Peformance, Security related concepts
Ability to drive discussions and database related pain-points at CXO level and provide guidance in order to drive them for more adoption of EDB Postgres. It would include competing with native cloud databases or working with the cloud service providers etc.
Support key and strategic sales motions in this region, from a technical perspective.
Ability to deliver technical product presentations, demonstrate technical products and their feature sets and conduct product proof-of-concepts from initial requirements gathering to successfully achieving objectives and success criteria through clear planning and methodical execution
Team player with on-site partner/channels ecosystem, customers and remote EDB teams
Keen to travel and spend time in the field with customers, partners, System Integrators

What Will Give You An Edge:

Foundational and/or experience in the following areas:

Cloud skills:

Private/Public/Hybrid Clouds - AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMWare Cloud, and OpenStack, Virtualization - in relation to the databases
Containers (Docker), Microservices, PaaS (Kubernetes, OpenShift) - In relation to Databases

Programming skills:

Understanding of (and able to write) SQL, PL/SQL or PL/pg
Understanding of (and able to write) bash shell or Python scripts

Technical content development skills:

Ability to author solution collaterals and describe product features in response to the Request For Proposals. Ability to coordinate Professional Services deliverables between Delivery and Solution Architect teams and customer teams.