Senior Field Engineer

  • Full-time

Job Description

AppFirst, a dynamic and exciting technology company located in Union Square, is looking to add an enthusiastic team player to our Field Engineering team. This candidate should be looking for an energetic environment that is rapidly emerging its offerings to capture a significant market share in the enterprise technology space.

The core responsibilities of this role are to work hands on with our prospects and customers in the presentation, POC planning, POC implementation, and post sales success of our strategic customers. This entails a current and thorough hands on understanding of application development, operations infrastructure processes, APM and IT systems including dedicated and virtualized.

Responsibilities:

  • Work hands on with current and prospective clients throughout all stages of the sales cycle

  • Implement test plans and identify success criteria for POC’s

  • Provide supporting content to Sales and Marketing teams

  • Deploy test environments to highlight issues and propose solutions

  • Product

  • Gather and create requirement docs for Engineering and Business units

Core Characteristics:

  • Start-Up Experience

  • A strong comfort level with technical systems and enterprise software

  • Team Player, raise the spirits of all those around you. Team building through action is a necessity at AppFirst.

  • Excellent communication; strong presentation and verbal skills.  Powerful email etiquette is important.

  • Evangelize. Highlight the features of our product to senior level executives

  • Travel required throughout US and EMEA

Qualifications

Required Experience:

Required Experience:

  • Minimum 8-10 years field engineering experience in the enterprise technology space

  • Hands on technical—deep understanding of C, C++, Java, JEE, OS’s, DB’s, VM’s

  • Superb technical troubleshooting skill set

  • Ability to be on site at prospect for days at a time

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills

  • Ability to effectively communicate prospect/client feedback to engineering/product management and interact on a technical level

Preferred

  • Experience with an APM or Log based technology stack such as CA, BMC, etc.

  • Operations experience; working with IT operations and their problems, requirements, etc.

AppFirst is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer supporting workforce diversity. We welcome all interested and qualified candidates.

To all recruitment agencies: AppFirst does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, AppFirst employees or any other company location. AppFirst is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.