Technical Account Manager [Pre-sales]

About Percona

Percona makes MySQL more valuable to customers and the community. Our MySQL Consulting, Support, Training, Remote DBA, and Server Development services as well as open source MySQL software  help people achieve breakthrough results with MySQL.

Our MySQL Consulting and Support teams are in a class of their own. Our expertise is visible in our widely read MySQL Performance blog and our book High Performance MySQL. We also create and maintain the oldest independent version of the MySQL database server (Percona Server), the only open-source hot backup solution for MySQL (Percona XtraBackup), and many more uniquely valuable software tools such as Percona Toolkit for MySQL users.

Discover what it means to work with the smartest people in the industry, solving the most challenging problems our customers can dream up and throw at you. Work from home, with some required travel. Great benefits, flexible hours, and a chance to be part of a company that's changing the industry.

Percona is the oldest and largest independent MySQL support and consulting company with a global, 24x7 staff of nearly 100 serving more than 1,800 customers in 50+ countries since 2006.

Description

A Presales Solution Engineer will work as part of the technical account management team working closely with the Percona sales team.  Your job will be to work with the sales team  to help match customers needs before the sale with the right mix of open source technologies, Percona services, and Percona products.  The Presales Engineer must have strong communication skills and an excellent rapport on the phone.  The candidate must have a strong background in MySQL and database related technologies along with a strong desire to learn the ins and outs of the solutions we build for our customers.   Customers will ask you the tough questions, and your answers will reflect on all of us.

This position will also be responsible for working with customers after the sales process.  Post sales you will continue to maintain those customer relationships, helping those customers match the right mix of services to meet their needs, and helping to uncover new opportunities.    

This position is primarily a work from home position, hoever  some travel is required.  Candidate must be willing to work some hours during west coast business hours.

We are looking for:

• 5+ years experience with MySQL based solutions
• 5+ years experience in architecting or running large database centric infrastructures
• 3+ years of designing, deploying, or running high availability solutions
• 3+ years of working with and understanding various cloud based architectures and solutions
• Knowledge, and a deep understanding of various data storage methods and technologies including various non-relational tools like MongoDB, Redis, Hbase, Hadoop, etc.  
• A strong desire to learn and keep ahead of the industry by quickly researching and adopting to new techniques and technologies
• Driven and Highly motivated, capable of working independently
• Outside the box thinker