[LA-Jobs] Freelancer for part time sales engineering

[Alexandru Balan]

I'll start by saying that I'm not from HR and this will be a somewhat  
informal announcement.

BitDefender is a multinational security software company based  
partially in the US and in Romania. Among other things we have several  
solutions for Linux/UNIX based systems and servers.

What we're looking for:
One or two freelancers to work on commission and help us deploy our  
solutions to customers in Australia. In a nutshell, the core  
responsibilities will be:

* Deploys the solution at the customer site. Does some basic training  
with their IT staff.
* Tier 2-3 support. The support calls will be taken by our customer  
care and escalated to our internal techs. However, on occasion we will  
need you to go on site and solve issues should they arise. Our  
software runs on business critical services (mail and file servers or  
internet gateways) and in the interest of reducing downtime to the  
minimum it's best if someone just goes on site and solves the problem.
* Keep in touch with our HQ and provide feedback, reports, suggestions

You will have to study and learn our solutions (they're pretty  
straightforward so this won't be an issue for anyone with just a  
little server admin experience)

The ideal candidate:
* Neat. Social. Communicative. This is a technical salesman job  
(welcome to the dark side) so yes: you will need to act like a sales  
person that's actually knowledgeable about what's being sold
* Experience with as many UNIX and Linux flavors. Our solutions are  
designed and have packages to support all the major Linux distros as  
long as they're not (way) too old. Same goes for FreeBSD and probably  
Solaris. You're not expected to know everything inside out. You are  
expected to quickly realize what's going wrong on that guy's custom  
made Slackware or that other guy's CentOS who installed packages with  
--force.
* Knowledge with as many e-mail services as possible. Qmail, Postfix,  
Sendmail. The works. We even have a dedicated agent that integrates  
with CommuniGate Pro. You will need to know how to work with that
* Knowledge of network protocols.

What we offer:
* Commission from each contract we close and you're involved in. We're  
talking about server solutions so usually there's a substantial amount  
of money for each sale. You're going to get a small percentage of that  
sum for a few hours of work.
* Bonus if the customer sends us a testimonial of your  
professionalism :)
* A very skilled team of techs to help you out
* Fees for each intervention you have to make on-site afterwards

If you're interested or need more detials, send an e-mail to abalan at  
bitdefender dot com telling us why you think you could qualify for the  
job. It doesn't have to be a CV (though CV's will help tell us about  
you and your experience) but it should be descriptive.
Good Luck!

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Alexandru Balan
Innovation & Technology Product Manager
BitDefender
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e-mail: abalan at bitdefender.com
phone: +40 21 206 3470
cell     : +40 723 237 428
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http://www.bitdefender.com