Senior Sales Engineer - Puppet (French fluency)

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Perforce Software is seeking an experienced Senior Sales Engineer to join our Puppet team serving the EMEA region.

This position requires a unique combination of technical skill and sales acumen, serving as a critical player partnering with your aligned account executive(s) to close opportunities with existing customers and prospects.

You will be required to engage throughout the sales lifecycle from discovery, scoping, proof of value and deliver technical close plans while serving as a trusted advisor within your accounts.

Fluent French Required.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with multiple Account Executives managing existing customers and prospects, owning technical sales efforts within your accounts.
• Conduct extensive discovery to understand customer's business objectives, use cases, workflows and architecture to effectively position the Puppet portfolio, highlighting solutions that align to their desired outcomes.
• Customize and conduct presentations, demos, workshops, technical service plans and proof of concept (POC) trials connecting Puppet capabilities to customer business objectives and business value in a way that demonstrates significant ROI and blocks competitors.
• Retain a competent level of knowledge and technical hands‑on experience across Puppet's products, solutions and sales proposition.
• Act as a liaison and internal champion for the customer within Puppet, collaborating with Marketing, Product, Support and Professional Services.
• Educate customers on the value proposition Puppet provides, and assist the customer to quantify that value at the technical, project, and LOB level.
• Collaborate with customers to adopt or improve their configuration management process, implementing best practices and leveraging the capabilities of Puppet to expand their use cases.

Requirements

• 3+ years proven experience in customer facing role (preferably pre‑sales).
• Experience engaging with executive stakeholders, solution architects, and extended program teams.
• Solid verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to adapt messaging to varying stakeholder levels.

• Knowledge in at least some of these technical areas

• Infrastructure Automation – Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Salt…
• Development and Scripting – Ruby, Python, Javascript, Power Shell, Bash…
• Unix, Linux or Windows System Administration
• Azure, AWS or Google Cloud experience – Knowledge of cloud resources, deployments, etc…

• Dev Ops tools and practices

• Git‑based version control (Git Hub, Gitlab, Azure Dev Ops, Bitbucket…)
• CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Gitlab CI…)
• Containers (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Open Shift…)
• Public and Private Clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware)

Benefits

Additionally, this position is eligible for benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, retirement benefits, life insurance, wellness programs, and other employee perks that may be offered by Perforce from time to time.

The actual offer will depend on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s education, skills, qualifications, depth of experience and other relevant business considerations.

Perforce reserves the right to amend or modify employee perks and benefits at any time.

All employees are expected to demonstrate AI fluency appropriate to their role and level, including responsible use of AI tools, sound judgment, and adherence to company AI governance and security policy standards.

Perforce is an equal opportunity employer.

This position is eligible for a Sales Engineering Commission Plan.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information.

These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment.

Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.

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