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Senior Sales Systems Engineer
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Veeam is seeking a senior pre-sales Systems Engineer to partner with Account Managers on enterprise and large commercial opportunities in Türkiye. The role delivers product demonstrations, proof-of-concept and proof-of-value engagements, technical discovery, and solution guidance across Veeam’s data resilience portfolio. It requires trusted-advisor engagement with C-level stakeholders, partners, solution architects, and professional services teams. Candidates need strong infrastructure expertise spanning virtualization, storage, networking, backup and disaster recovery, plus cloud-native technologies and hyperscalers. Turkish and English fluency, confident public presentation skills, and willingness to travel within Türkiye are essential.
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I would first agree on business outcomes, technical success criteria, scope, timeline, stakeholders, and the prospect’s current risks. I would then validate the relevant workloads and integrations, run test scenarios such as backup, recovery, immutability, or monitoring, document measurable results, and close with an architecture and adoption recommendation.
I focus on business impact rather than product features: recovery objectives, operational risk, cyber-resilience, compliance exposure, and cost of downtime. I use a concise narrative supported by a simple architecture view and clear outcome metrics, while retaining technical depth for the customer’s engineering team.
I would understand the reasons behind the standardization and identify where the customer still has resilience, governance, recovery, or operational gaps. I would position the solution as complementary to the cloud strategy, demonstrate integration with the existing platform, and use a limited POC to prove value with minimal disruption.
I establish a shared account plan covering customer objectives, stakeholders, technical risks, responsibilities, milestones, and next actions. I keep the team aligned through regular updates, ensure that messaging is consistent, and bring the right technical resource into each stage of discovery, validation, and proposal development.
I would clarify the underlying use case and desired business outcome before confirming what is and is not supported. I would propose viable alternatives where possible, set expectations transparently, document the requirement for product feedback, and avoid promising an uncommitted roadmap item.
About this role.
Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.
About the Role
At Veeam, Systems Engineers work closely with Account Managers and help to evangelize our product offerings to our customers, partners and service providers. More specifically, Senior Systems Engineers work mainly with Enterprise and large Commercial customers, both Public and Private.
What You’ll Do
- Work with sales to help secure and grow business with new and existing mid-large customers in the Enterprise and Commercial market segments.
- Provide web-based and on-site demonstrations of Veeam product portfolio, including Proof-of-Concept (POC) / Proof-of-Value (POV)
- Work closely with Veeam’s value added Partners, including Cloud and Hosting providers, for training, enablement, joint meetings, and relationships
- Provide pre-sales support and/or on-site installation assistance to customers as they evaluate Veeam products and services
- Act as a trusted technical advisor for the customers, ensuring the best experience possible of Veeam solutions by supporting (together with colleagues such as Solution Architects, Professional Services, etc.) correct design, implementation and adherence to best practices
- Provide input for and participate in Veeam marketing events (webinars, conferences, trade shows…)
What You’ll Bring
- Ability to drive business conversations with relevant C-level stakeholders of enterprise level customers
- Advising and influencing customer decisions on their future business strategy, and having the ability to ensure total customer experience on assigned accounts
- Ability to evangelize Veeam messaging at Marketing events
- Coordinating presales efforts with customers, through the help and collaboration of Veeam Solution Architects, System Integrators, and Professional Services figures (regardless if they are Veeam colleagues or via Partners)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Fluent level of Turkish and English language
- Being comfortable in presenting to groups, both remotely and in person
- Openess to travel throughout Turkey and occasionally abroad, if/when needed.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Prior expertise in IT infrastructure topics (virtualization, storage, networking, backup/disaster recovery, monitoring…)
- Knowledge of micro-services, cloud-native applications concepts and related technologies (containerization and orchestration, Kubernetes…)
- Knowledge and experience of Hyperscalers (such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud…); be comfortable to position and engage discussions around Cloud technologies
- Experience in using social media to help promote and grow the Veeam community
What You’ll Get
- 24 paid vacation days, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
- Private medical, dental, and optical insurance for employees and dependents
- Life and disability insurance with enhanced coverage
- Mandatory personal pension plan with employer contributions
- Monthly meal allowance of 200 TRY per working day
- Monthly home office allowance for remote work support
- Monthly commuter allowance for business-related travel
- Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning
Please note: If an applicant is permanently located outside of Turkey, Veeam reserves the right to decline the application for this position.
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