Job Description

Systems Engineering Director \xe2\x80\x93 Subsea APAC

Location: Remote, APAC.

India, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, Australia.

Vacancy Closing Date Friday 20th October, 2023.

Role Summary

Infinera provides leading edge submarine network solutions in an era of open cable systems, ensuring a reliable on-time deployment that scales with our customers\xe2\x80\x99 bandwidth needs.

Infinera\xe2\x80\x99s highly successful submarine team is expanding and looking for a customer facing sales team representative working with account directors focused on specific accounts. Perform technical tasks, including written proposals, network design and engineering and quotes. Highly motivated professional, able to work independently, must be able to communicate solutions to customers and manage ongoing technical relationship. Also work with internal Infinera organization to drive product requirements and provide customer feedback to product management.

• Presales technical support for Infinera subsea business in EMEA as a subsea SLTE solutions architect
• Provide product and technical expertise to support sales efforts of Infinera subsea SLTE and related solutions (e.g. terrestrial transport, NMS, DCN)
• Consult with current and potential customers on application of Infinera subsea SLTE solutions by analysing networks and identifying requirements
• Ownership of subsea SLTE network design, bill of material, solution descriptions and presentations
• Expertise in use of Infinera network design and modelling tools
• Assist with preparation of customer proposals and quotations
• Support Infinera sales and project team with closing orders and implementation delivery of network solutions
• Support sales and project team as a technical expert
• Assist with technical marketing of Infinera solutions as well as providing customer and market feedback in terms of trends and solution requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor\'s or Master \'s degree in Telecommunication, Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent technical degree
• Technical expertise in submarine network and SLTE design. Subsea business experience.
• Technical knowledge in optical networking (i.e. DWDM, ROADM, OTN). Understanding of data networking (Ethernet, IP) desired.
• Exhibit a high degree of presentation, interpersonal and communications skills
• Proven ability to work in a team oriented environment, participating in solutions architecture discussions
• Experience with responding to RFP/RFQ and technical quotations
• Extensive industry experience
• Fluency in English
• Experience of either working in a team lead role, or as an industry expert individual contributor.
• Experience of APAC customers in the operator, tier 1, ICP and subsea cable consortium space.

Desired Characteristics

• Highly motivated technical individual that desires to work on application of advanced transport technologies
• The ability to demonstrate leadership in technical sales activities
• Ability to understand customer needs and use technical expertise to develop customer solutions
• Ability to develop customer relationships and work well with customers
• Flexible individual that is able to handle multiple tasks with minimal supervision
• Team player

Locations

• This role is field based with extensive travel around the APAC region
• Preferred locations: APAC

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Infinera is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Infinera complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.

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