Sr. Lead Sales Engineer

Who are we?

A career at Equinix means being at the center of shaping what comes next and amplifying customer value through innovation and impact. You’ll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

Senior Lead Sales Engineer, HI-Tech Segment

 

Equinix is looking for a Senior Lead Sales Engineer to support strategic HI-Tech customers through deep technical engagement, solution leadership and strong customer alignment. This role is ideal for a highly experienced pre-sales professional who can shape complex opportunities, influence customer strategy and help customers modernize their digital infrastructure.

 

About Equinix

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 260 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.

A career at Equinix means you will collaborate on work that impacts the world and be surrounded by endless opportunities to learn new skills and grow in varied directions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success. 

 

Role Summary

The Senior Lead Sales Engineer leads complex technical sales engagements across key HI-Tech accounts and is accountable for driving the technical win. The role combines customer discovery, solution design, technical strategy, whiteboarding, stakeholder engagement and cross-functional leadership to align Equinix capabilities to customer business and technology outcomes.

This role requires the ability to engage confidently with customer stakeholders on network architecture, application architecture and infrastructure design, and to identify how those environments can be improved for better performance, resilience, scalability and security.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, qualification and solutioning for strategic opportunities across the HI-Tech segment.
• Own the technical relationship with customers and act as a trusted advisor throughout the sales cycle.
• Understand customer business priorities, technical requirements, current-state architecture and target-state goals, then map them to Equinix solutions.
• Hold architecture-level discussions on network design, interconnection strategy and application environments, identifying opportunities for improvement and modernization.
• Design end-to-end solutions spanning data center, interconnection, cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Lead customer meetings, technical workshops, whiteboarding sessions and executive-level discussions with clarity and authority.
• Support complex RFIs, RFPs, quoting, technical documentation and customer deliverables.
• Influence internal stakeholders across sales, operations, capacity, customer success and other teams to support effective opportunity execution.
• Mentor other Sales Engineers and contribute to best practices, knowledge sharing and broader Solutions Engineering development.

 

What You Bring

• Extensive experience, 10+ years, in technical sales, pre-sales or solutions engineering, ideally in data center, cloud, networking or telecommunications environments.
• Strong understanding of data center infrastructure, interconnection, network modernization and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Ability to discuss customer network architecture and application architecture in a credible, consultative way and recommend practical improvements.
• Proven success leading complex customer engagements and influencing technical and business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, presentation and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities and perform effectively in a fast-changing environment.
• Strong English written and verbal communication skills.

 

Why Join

Equinix is a global leader in digital infrastructure and continues to grow as organizations around the world accelerate their digital transformation. This role offers the opportunity to join a high-energy team, work alongside talented and ambitious colleagues, and help shape complex decisions for some of the most important customers in the market.

It is an opportunity to be part of a leading company where innovation, collaboration and impact matter, while contributing to the continued growth of Solutions Engineering within a business that operates at the center of cloud, network and datacenter transformation.

 

Equal Opportunity

Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability.  If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law. 

Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability.  If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law. 

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