Technical Consultant | Sales Engineering

This is the single most important listing in today's edition, because it is the only genuine entry level role. Fastly runs an edge cloud platform for content delivery, security and edge compute, and this position is described in the posting itself as an early career technical role supporting the pre sales engineering team. You would demonstrate the technology, help with proofs of concept and work directly alongside field solutions engineers, sales teams and customers. The stated requirement is zero to two years in a technical role, and it counts consulting, pre sales, technical support or an internship towards that. If you graduated recently and have been told every entry level job secretly wants three years, this one does not.

Published requirement: 0 to 2 years of experience in a technical role, and the posting explicitly counts consulting, pre sales, technical support or an internship towards that. This is the lowest experience bar we have published in several weeks and the posting describes itself, in its own words, as an early career technical role, so the level is not our interpretation. Location is Pune, named in the job title. Desired technical knowledge as published: an understanding of TCP/IP and related network protocols including TCP, ARP, ICMP, DHCP, DNS, HTTP and SNMP, along with familiarity with protocol and packet analysis tooling; knowledge of information security protection, detection and authentication systems such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems and anti virus; knowledge of commonly accepted information security principles and practice, including the techniques attackers use to find vulnerabilities, gain unauthorised access and escalate privileges; in depth knowledge of current operating environments across Microsoft, Linux, other operating systems and cloud providers; and exceptional analytical ability. What the job actually involves: supporting the pre sales engineering function by demonstrating the technology, assisting with proofs of concept and contributing to customer success, while working directly with field solutions engineers, sales teams and clients. It is stated as a learning role, with the purpose being to develop into delivering performance and security solutions. Honest guidance for early career applicants. This is customer facing technical work, not software engineering, so you would spend your time explaining, demonstrating and troubleshooting rather than building product. That is a legitimate and well paid career track and solutions engineering pays strongly at senior levels, but it is a different path from software development and it is worth choosing deliberately. If you have solid networking fundamentals and enjoy explaining technical things to people, this is a genuinely rare opening. Apply quickly, entry level roles at this quality close fast.