Senior Technical Account Manager (DevOps)

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With a global footprint spanning more than 80 countries and including over 75% of the Fortune 100, Perforce Software, Inc. is trusted by the world’s leading brands to deliver solutions for the toughest challenges. The best run DevOps teams in the world choose Perforce. 

Perforce, is seeking a Senior Technical Account Manager (TAM) to join the Customer Success team and work alongside the best DevOps Engineers in the industry. Puppet’s IT automation software enables system administrators to deliver the operational agility and efficiency of cloud computing at enterprise-class service levels, scaling from a handful of nodes in the cloud to tens of thousands on premise.

As a senior-level engineer, TAMs own the technical health and customer success of the Puppet Enterprise solution. The TAM leverages technical and business expertise to build relationships, guiding customers to improved efficiency and dollar savings. The TAM serves as the customer's main point of technical contact post-installation, working with customers to build a roadmap for future business success using Puppet Enterprise.

The joint journey of the TAM and customer is multifaceted and includes determining training needs; communicating and advocating on behalf of the customer throughout the Puppet by Perforce organization and ultimately sharing in the success and growth of both organizations.

Passionate about problem solving and have a background that includes debugging and troubleshooting

Maintains a constructive and composed focus facing and overcoming tough situations.

Credible inside and outside of Puppet due to skills, knowledge and ability to communicate cross functionally and at different levels within an organization

Strong consultative skills that guide and influence decisions

The ability to work in an international, fast-growing environment

The ability to understand and embrace DevOps and its impact in the computing world

Partners productively with support engineers to troubleshoot and diagnose customer problems

Advocates for customers and product quality within the development and product management organization

Exceptionally flexible and can context switch without disrupting a positive disposition.

Knowledge of data center management, systems management, and monitoring, networking & security

Large scale infrastructure experience

Former experience working in a TAM role.

An Undergraduate in Computer Science/IT/Engineering or equivalent gained elsewhere.

Solid verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to adapt messaging to varying stakeholder levels

A collaborative and team-focused mindset, with a willingness to approach new situations

Loves customers and takes personal pride and ownership to make them successful

Unix &/or Linux SysAdmin or DevOps background, including:

Programming skills (Ruby, Python, etc)

Unix and/or Linux SysAdmin, including automation

Experience with some of the following technologies:

Git and git-based version control

Public and Private Clouds (AWS, Azure, Openstack, VMware, Kubernetes, GCP)

Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Bamboo, or others)

Experience working in the software development or CI/CD domains

Experience in customer sales/service

Windows administration experience, including Microsoft PowerShell

Knowledge and understanding of DevOps culture

Understanding of Salesforce or other Sales management platforms