Sonic Wall | Pre-Sales Intern

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SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Location: Remote 
Duration: Summer Internship (10–12 weeks)

This is an Inside Solution Engineering Intern role, with 100% of time office based or remote working in supporting sales and channel activities.

This role is aligned to current computer science or cyber security students (Undergraduate and Graduate) that are passionate about technology, learning to work with diverse teams, engaging in complex projects, and connecting with people and customers to help define and deliver positive outcomes. The ideal candidate must have a strong interest in cyber security with persuasive communication and presentations skills. This is a perfect opportunity for an individual to learn hands-on skills in the subjects of or similar to Networking, Cloud, Cyber Security, Pre-Sales, Channel Enablement, Team Collaboration, Presentation Skills, Technical Marketing, and Project Management.

Responsibilities Include:

• Be an active member of the Virtual Pre-Sales team.
• Learn how to present and demonstrate SonicWall’s unique value proposition.
• Be an active participant in SE Projects with focus on presentation/demo best practices.
• Be an active participant in SE Projects with focus on Sales/Pre-Sales soft skills.
• Learn how to conduct technical sales presentations and product demonstrations across the SonicWall portfolio.
• Learn how to preform technical discovery conversations to qualify and validate customer requirements.
• Support key Pre-Sales and technical marketing initiatives, builds out collateral, and presenting on internal and external virtual events.
• Adheres to the company values, guidelines, and solution engineering regional reporting tasks.

Characteristics of the Role:

• Strong presentation skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Strong technical base and/or understanding.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Strong verbal skills.
• Driven by excellence.
• Self-motivated.
• High Integrity.

Desired Education and Experience:

• Individual working toward an Undergraduate or Graduate degree in computer science, cyber security or equivalent.
• Proficient with Windows 10/11.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Familiar with virtualization platforms such as VMWare.
• CCNA is a plus.
• Microsoft Azure or AWS Fundamentals desired.

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SonicWall is an equal opportunity employer.  

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

At SonicWall, we pride ourselves on recruiting a diverse mix of talented people and providing active security solutions in 100+ countries.