Intern - Technical Sales (Germany)

Description: Your Role:
- Working as part of a highly regarded team of technical sales engineers in our DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) region, our Internship will provide a fundamental understanding of sales and in particular the technical sales role and develop the skills to communicate F5’s solutions.
- Reporting to the Director, Systems Engineering for the region our role will be supported by one of our locally based Systems Engineers as your buddy whilst you are part of our Program.

Your Typical Day May Involve:
•Supporting the planning and technical content preparation of F5, customer and partner events such as webinars and instructor led events and build the skills and knowledge to present to small groups.
•Ownership of ad hoc technical sales-related requests from our channel partners and find solutions to a variety of their queries.
•Shadowing the Proof of Concept (POC) process alongside our Sales Engineers - a key technical aspect of the team’s role.
•Developing excellent knowledge and experience of the technical aspects of the sale as we work with our customers through the sales process. This can include accompanying Senior team members and shadowing customer meetings.

You Are:
•Studying a Computer Science or Information Technology degree with a strong commercial interest and motivated to learn about the tech industry.
•Technically proficient in Linux, networking and application security. Some knowledge of DevOps basics would be an advantage.

We’d Love to Hear from You If:
•You are a self-starter with a positive approach and a keen interest in learning.
•You have excellent communication and presentation skills and are able build collaborative working relationships with your peers.

Why You’ll Love Working at F5:
•At F5, your experience is every bit as meaningful to us as it is to you. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and take away:
•As well as our Intern Program onboarding and training, you will build a valuable commercial and technical foundation through work shadowing, on the job learning and taking ownership of value adding tasks.
•F5 technical certifications and opportunities to attend courses at our Munich based technical training facility.

This will be a paid Internship for 12-months duration based at our Munich office.
F5 Networks is an equal opportunity employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace. The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.