[Hiring] Channel Systems Engineer @Belden Inc

Role Description

You will focus on Channel Partner development and enablement for all Ruckus Channel Partners in the fourteen northeastern states. As a System Engineer, you will:

• Perform technical demos, proof of concept trials, and technical training.
• Provide design input and review.
• Engage in solution-focused selling and positioning to all levels of decision-makers.
• Deliver presentations for customers, partners, prospects, and events.

To be successful, you will have:

• Strong technical skills and industry knowledge.
• Excellent experience as a customer or partner-facing Systems Engineer.
• Knowledge of the Ruckus wireless and wired portfolio and related technologies (preferred).
• A proficient understanding of pre-sales engineering and sales processes, including critical account management.

This position is remote, requires 50% or more travel, and the candidate must reside in one of the following states: Virginia, Maryland, DC, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, or Connecticut, or be willing to relocate at their own expense.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or graduate degree (BS/BA minimum) in Electrical Engineering, Networking Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent proven work-related experience.
• Minimum 5 years pre-sales or equivalent experience working with routers, switches, and Wi-Fi technologies.
• A professional or associate-level networking industry certification such as CCNA, BPIPA, JNCIA, Cisco, Aruba, RUCKUS, CWNA, etc. is preferred.
• Strong ability to support and manage the process of troubleshooting complex problems.
• Highly effective technical presentation skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.

Requirements

• A proficient understanding of pre-sales engineering, technical sales processes, and critical account management.
• Ability to communicate both written and oral technical solutions to a variety of audiences that include executive-level decision-makers.
• Advanced understanding of partner business drivers and how to map these to a customer network environment, including identification of improvement areas in network design.
• Working knowledge of networking technical skills; specifically, 802.11 Wi-Fi technology evolution releases (Wi-Fi 5, 6, 7), best practices design and assessment, predictive heat map creation, wireless troubleshooting, wireless network optimization, IP routing and switching WAN/LAN design, setup and configuration, Layer 4-7 application services, security authentication methods and products, SASE, SD-WAN, RADIUS, AD, Virtualization environments/deployments, VM installations (any of VMWare, KVM, Hyper-V, GCE, Azure, AWS), secure device/user onboarding solutions, etc. DevOps/REST or other common API programming knowledge a plus.
• General knowledge of the following areas of specialization: Cloud services (SaaS); VLAN; security; VoIP; QoS wired/wireless; BYOD/MDM; P2P; mesh; wireless controller architectures; Wi-Fi protocols and transmission, RF design, indoor and outdoor wireless deployments; packet capture/analysis tools; and WLAN security.
• Working knowledge of Wi-Fi design tools such as Ekahau Survey/AI Pro, Hamina Network Planner, etc.

Benefits

• Opportunity to grow your career alongside bright, passionate, and caring people.
• Work in a purpose-driven environment that enables superior business outcomes.
• Access to AI-powered automation, proactive network assurance, and context-aware security solutions.