QTS Realty Trust

Solutions Engineer

QTS Realty Trust$90K — $120K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
  • 4+ years in Sales Engineering or customer-facing roles
  • 2+ years in data center infrastructure
  • Knowledge of managed services and custom designed solutions
  • Strong analytical skills and technical knowledge

Responsibilities

  • Design complex hosting solutions with minimal supervision
  • Present advanced technical concepts clearly to customers
  • Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences
  • Collaborate with operational staff on Solutions Engineering initiatives
  • Respond to functional and technical elements of RFPs

Benefits

  • QRest Sabbatical
  • Employee Stock Purchase
  • QTS scholarship for dependents
  • Paid volunteer days
  • Tuition assistance, parental leave, and military leave assistance
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Paid time off and paid holidays
  • Employee assistance program
  • Wellness program
Full Job Description
Who You Are:

The Solutions Engineer will be the primary technical resource for the sales teams and the sales resource for the operations teams. The Solutions Engineer will determine customer requirements during the evaluation stage of the sales process and will provide technical solutions. This role will answer both business and technical questions from customers while demonstrating the benefits of products and services. This role is the direct interface with internal teams in order to assemble and present technical, contractual, and service order information to our customers.

What You Will Do:
  • Design complex hosting solutions and corresponding services, working with sales personnel in response to customer needs with minimal supervision.
  • Present advanced technical concepts in a clear manner to customers through demonstrations, technical review, and design/proposal presentations.
  • Effectively communicate requirements to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Collaborate with operational staff as it relates to initiatives that affect the Solutions Engineering Team.
  • Respond to functional and technical elements of RFPs


What You Will Need to be Successful:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
  • Four or more years of experience in Sales Engineering, preferably focused on managed services and custom designed solutions or applicable customer facing experience
  • Two or more years of experience working in data center infrastructure (space, power, connectivity) or equivalent experience


Nice to Have:
  • Three or more years of experience with enterprise and hyperscale colocation design to include power, cooling and networking.


Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  • Strong desire and self-motivated to learn and expand knowledge of technical and interpersonal skills.
  • Able to demonstrate strong analytical capabilities and technical knowledge by providing innovative yet supportable solutions.
  • Excellent written and presentation communication skills with the capacity to articulate complex technical topics to varying customer audiences (administrators to executives).
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines. Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.


The Perks (and these are just a few!):
  • QRest Sabbatical
  • Employee Stock Purchase
  • QTS scholarship for dependents
  • Eagle Club award trip eligibility
  • Paid volunteer days
  • Tuition assistance, parental leave and military leave assistance


Total Rewards

This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending and HSA accounts; paid holidays; paid time off; paid volunteer days; employee assistance program; tuition assistance; parental leave; military leave assistance; QTS scholarship for dependents; wellness program, and other company benefits.

This position is Bonus eligible.

About QTS Realty Trust

QTS is the digital infrastructure leader – Powered by People, driven by purpose and fueled by a spirit of innovation. We have a 20-year track record of designing, building and operating world-class data centers, delivering the critical infrastructure for the world’s largest and fastest-growing companies. We have more than 75 data centers in operation or under development across the United States and Europe.
Learn more about QTS Realty Trust
Size
82,000 employees
Market Cap
$5.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$15.9 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+11.6%
Revenue
$539.3 million
NASDAQ

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