Technical Marketing Engineer, Web Security Appliances

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Technical Marketing Engineer, Web Security Appliances

IronPort is an independent business unit of Cisco Systems. Operating as a part of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, IronPort is a leading provider of anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware appliances for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. IronPort product lines utilize SenderBase®, the world’s largest threat detection database, enabling powerful security measures that are easy to deploy and manage.

Responsibilities:

Technical Marketing Engineers (TMEs) are product focused, working with a cross-functional team to ensure that the products that IronPort is bringing to market is successful in a wide variety of customer engagements.

TMEs have intrinsic product knowledge as well as detailed technical knowledge about a variety of networking environments where the product has to reside in. TMEs should have the ability to clearly articulate the technical differentiators of a product as well as work with IronPort Product Managers in identifying customer requirements and product gaps and helping PMs prioritize those gaps. Extensive customer and field interaction is a must.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating Technical collateral, application notes, technical white papers, presentations, demonstrations, and providing deal support for IronPort's Web Security product line
• Responsible for creating and maintaining vendor inter-operability matrices for IronPort's Web Security Appliance product line
• Assist in BU activity regarding performance and competitive analysis. Responsible for creating and maintaining field-facing performance and sizing matrix for IronPort's Web Security Appliance product line
• Support sales and marketing efforts as required. Some travel required to support field and marketing activity
• Support product launch activities and assist with Tradeshows, Conferences and Technical Sales Training or Channel Partner Training activities.
• Respond to customer or field inquiries, assist with Technical RFPs and work with a cross-functional team of PMs, SEs, Engineers as required.

Required Experience and Skills:

•BA/BS (business, marketing, or engineering preferred), MBA or equivalent a plus.
• Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit and sense of urgency. Must be resourceful, proactive and aggressive.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented and possessing a high level of integrity.
• Team player that works well in collaborative situations and start-up environments.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills required.
• Natural leadership skills and the ability to work with all teams in the company.
• Extensive experience with Internet technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, WCCP, FTP, SSH, SCP, LDAP etc) a must.
• Knowledge of web proxies, caching, Layer 4-7 switching desired
• Knowledge of Windows Active Directory services & protocols (NTLM SSP, NTLM basic, NTLM v2 etc.) a plus
• Experience with Cisco routing, switching or security products a plus
• Prior experience as a TME within the networking or security industry a must.

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For immediate consideration, please submit your resume here.