Iron Mountain
We protect, unlock, and extend the value of your information and assets throughout the entire lifecycle.
Data Center Sales Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$142.1K - $189.4K / year
Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Collaborate with the sales team and subject matter experts (SMEs) to identify, qualify, and support potential customers across both hyperscale and enterprise segments, ensuring responsive and professional internal partnership.
• Conduct technical discovery sessions to understand customer business objectives, workload requirements, growth plans, design requirements and operational constraints.
• Design and propose customized data center solutions, including: Retail colocation and enterprise deployments, Wholesale and build-to-suit hyperscale solutions, Power, cooling, space, security, and resiliency architectures.
• Deliver technical presentations and host technical due-dilligence virtual meetings with prospective clients with a focus on transparency and clarity, tailoring messaging to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide technical guidance and subject matter expertise throughout the sales cycle, maintaining a high degree of professionalism and responsiveness with all internal (Sales, Design and Construction, Operations, Security, Networking and Instrumentation teams) as well as clients and external stakeholders.
• Support complex, long-cycle hyperscale opportunities involving large power requirements, phased deployments, and standardized design models.
• Support shorter-cycle enterprise and retail sales motions requiring flexible designs, compliance considerations, and workload-specific solutions.
• Prepare and deliver detailed proposals, technical appendices, and quotations, including power density, redundancy models, and service descriptions.
• Assist in the preparation of RFP/RFI responses for both hyperscale and enterprise customers, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and competitive differentiation.
• Participate in customer meetings, site tours, workshops, and technical deep dives as a trusted advisor.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders both internal and external.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, competitive offerings, and evolving data center technologies, including sustainability and energy efficiency initiatives.
• Support the transition from sales to delivery by assisting with solution handoff to operations, design and construction, and implementation teams.
• Contribute to achieving and exceeding sales targets and objectives by enabling technically sound and commercially viable solutions.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years of experience in data center sales engineering, technical sales, or infrastructure design roles.
- Strong understanding of data center infrastructure, including: Mechanical and electrical systems (UPS, generators, power distribution).
- Cooling architectures (air and liquid cooling concepts).
- Physical security and access controls.
- Operations, monitoring, and instrumentation.
- Experience supporting hyperscale customers with large-scale, repeatable, and standardized infrastructure requirements.
- Experience supporting enterprise and retail customers with diverse workloads, compliance needs, and varying power and density profiles.
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences, including business and executive stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, demonstrating transparency, responsiveness, and professionalism in all internal and external interactions.
- Proven ability to build, manage, and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with internal and external customers through transparent and responsive engagement.
- Self-motivated, results-oriented, and comfortable operating in both long-cycle and fast-paced sales environments.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Willingness to travel as needed to support customers and sales activities.