Join the team of one of the fastest-growing managed VoIP, Network and IT Services providers.
LightEdge Solutions is a leading provider of fully-managed network and business services, VoIP services and hosting for small and medium sized businesses in the Midwest and Southwest. LightEdge is dedicated to technology leadership and best-in-class service and support. With our Service-on-Demand offering, LightEdge provides fully-managed network and business application services, allowing businesses to focus on their core business, gain competitive advantage and scale for growth.
LightEdge is committed to providing scalable, cost-effective Fortune 500 network and IT Solutions to the small and medium business marketplace. At LightEdge, we are making Service-on-Demand a reality for our customers, offering them large corporate managed solutions at a fraction of the upfront capital investment and affordable monthly pricing. Our vision is to provide all the managed business solutions your company requires over our state-of-the-art network to ensure the highest quality at the lowest price.
For job inquiries, please contact Human Resources at hr@lightedge.com.
Consulting Sales Specialist
Reports to: Vice President, Sales
The Consulting Sales Specialist is responsible for direct sales of LightEdge consulting products and services to LightEdge customers and prospects.
- Achieve assigned revenue quota for consulting sales to LightEdge customers and prospects.
- Develop and execute consulting sales strategy and plan.
- Serve as “subject matter expert” for LightEdge consulting products.
- Develop individual opportunity strategies and sales plans.
- Build and manage a strong funnel of consulting sales prospects and opportunities.
- Prospect, qualify and make sales presentations to potential customers.
- Lead the consulting sales process, leveraging necessary internal resources, and partners, for consulting sales within assigned opportunities.
- Update all sales activities through Microsoft CRM.
- Prepare, complete and process all sales paperwork and documentation.
- Competitive, professional, enthusiastic, independent, confident, persistent, flexible
- Strong knowledge of IT consulting products and services.
- Demonstrated history of consultatively selling into “C” level contacts.
- 7+ years experience selling consulting products and/or services.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Consulting sales experience a plus.
- ROI and total cost of ownership selling experience preferred.
For job inquiries, please contact Human Resources at hr@lightedge.com.
IT Administrator
LightEdge Solutions is a leading provider of fully managed network and business services for small and medium sized businesses in the Midwest. LightEdge is dedicated to technology leadership and best-in-class service and support. With its Service-on-DemandSM offering, LightEdge provides fully managed network and business application services, allowing businesses to focus on their core business, gain competitive advantage and scale for growth.
We are looking for an energetic, customer-service oriented support person to provide LAN, Server and Desktop support for our corporate IT environment and to our Desktop Support customers. We are searching for a candidate that is creative and innovative in their approach to support and management of our corporate IT environment. This position will reward the successful candidate with a variety of technical responsibilities, exposure to a wide array of server/storage/application/network technologies and a working environment filled with employees abundant in technical knowledge.
Responsibilities:
- Install, configure, and support hardware, operating systems, printers and applications
- Install and Manage corporate servers – File, Print, Email and Applications
- Provide internal helpdesk support, solving and documenting issue
- Use Active Directory to set up user accounts and enforce company policies
- Maintain, track and order IT supplies
- Administer and support employee mobile devices for email and communications
- Develop standard practices\policies for our corporate LAN\WAN environment
General Requirements
- Strong customer service skills and orientation
- Excellent communication skills, good attitude, team player
- Flexibility and ability to shift focus and re-prioritize projects
- Willingness to answer calls after hours in case of emergency
Technical Requirements
- Solid expertise with Windows XP Professional and Server 2003
- Must be able to image and deploy laptops and workstations and manage image lifecycles
- Experience installing and managing Exchange, Sharepoint, SQL and Active Directory
- Ability to manage OS/Application patching, backup software and antivirus software for workstations, laptops and servers
- Excellent troubleshooting skills with hardware and software
For job inquiries, please contact Human Resources at hr@lightedge.com.
Web Developer
LightEdge Solutions is a leading provider of fully managed network and business services for small and medium sized businesses. LightEdge is dedicated to technology leadership and best-in-class service and support. With its Service-on-DemandSM offering, LightEdge provides fully managed network and business application services, allowing businesses to focus on their core business, gain competitive advantage and scale for growth. LightEdge is headquartered in Des Moines, with offices in Cedar Rapids, Kansas City, Minneapolis and Omaha.
We are seeking a web developer to join our team in creating and supporting applications to enable our business processes as well as our customer portal. We offer a dynamic environment with low bureaucracy and the opportunity to work with leading edge voice, data, and IT services technologies.
All candidates must be eligible to work in the United States.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain internal and customer facing applications
- Analyze business needs, interpret requests and implement solutions
- Coordinate testing and release schedules with business personnel
- Work both independently and with a team based upon project
- Ensure processes and solutions conform to standards
Requirements:
- Associates or Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or equivalent
- Willingness and ability to learn and master new technologies.
- Web development experience
- Relational database experience
- Business analysis experience
- Strong team player, ability to work on independent assignments
- Ability to produce technical and business documentation
- Excellent communications skills to determine scope of work, requirements, and expectation management
Desirable Skills/Experience:
- PHP, .Net language(s)
- Web Services
- SQL Server
- User interface design
- Familiarity with web usability and testing methods
- Workflow modeling
- Microsoft SharePoint
For job inquiries, please contact Human Resources at hr@lightedge.com.
Microsoft Engineer/Architect
The Microsoft Systems Engineer/Architect will be responsible for designing, testing, implementing and supporting Microsoft server and application platforms for LightEdge Solutions and our customers. We are looking for an individual with a background rich in a variety of Microsoft operating system and application technologies.
Responsibilities:
- Install, configure, and support Microsoft operating systems and applications
- Provide internal and customer support for Microsoft technologies
- Participate in the establishment and practice of standards surrounding the Microsoft infrastructure at LightEdge
- Perform project work including server platform design, upgrades and migrations
- Work directly with customers in a consultative role to solve IT problems and implement new technology
- Discover client's system specifications, understanding their work practices and the nature of their business
- Identify ways to improve our clients' systems and infrastructure (upgrades to hardware, software, network)
- Evangelize, teach and share Microsoft technologies with our customers and employees
General Requirements
- Strong customer service skills and orientation
- Excellent communication skills, good attitude, team player
- Flexibility and ability to shift focus and re-prioritize projects
- Willingness to answer calls after hours in case of emergency
Technical Requirements
- Ability to understand customer technology requirements and deploy technology solutions accordingly
- Excellent troubleshooting skills with Microsoft operating systems and applications
- Advanced skill sets and experience with multiple of the following technologies:
- Windows Server 2003 and 2008
- Active Directory in single and multi-site deployments
- Sharepoint 2007
- Exchange 2003, 2007
- SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008
- Office Communications Server 2007 and 2007 R2
- Virtualization Technologies(VMWare, Hyper-V)
- Networking, TCP/IP, DNS
- Systems imaging and hardening procedure
For job inquiries, please contact Human Resources at hr@lightedge.com.
Server Infrastructure Engineer/Administrator
Summary of Position
The Server Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for supporting the server, storage and backup infrastructure for LightEdge and our customers. We are looking for an individual with experience, intelligence, creativity and motivation to be part of a unique Systems Engineering and Operations team.
Responsibilities:
- Install, configure, and support servers, server hardware, storage and operating systems
- Install and Manage backup applications
- Provide internal and customer support for various server-based technologies
- Rack, cable and document servers and storage components
- Participate in the establishment and practice of server Build, Security, DR and Audit processes
- Perform project work including server platform design, upgrades and migrations
- Work directly with customers in a consultative role to solve IT problems and implement new technology
- Discover client's system specifications, understanding their work practices and the nature of their business
- Identify ways to improve our clients' systems and infrastructure (upgrades to hardware, software, network)
General Requirements
- Strong customer service skills and orientation
- Excellent communication skills, good attitude, team player
- Flexibility and ability to shift focus and re-prioritize projects
- Willingness to answer calls after hours in case of emergency
Technical Requirements
- Ability to understand customer technology requirements and deploy server and storage platforms accordingly
- Excellent troubleshooting skills with server hardware and software
- Advanced skill sets and experience with multiple of the following technologies:
- Server hardware(IBM, Dell, HP; Rack mounted and Blade Centers)
- Server Operating Systems(Windows, Linux, Sun)
- Storage arrays(IBM, EMC)
- Virtualization Technologies(VMWare, HyperV)
- Backup applications(EMC Networker, Avamar)
- Tape Library systems
- Ethernet and Fiber cabling and switch management
- Networking and TCP/IP
- Security Platforms(Firewalls, IDS)
For job inquiries, please contact Human Resources at hr@lightedge.com.
Back Up / Storage / Virtualization Sales Specialist
Reports to: Vice President, Sales
The Back Up and Storage Sales Specialist is responsible for direct sales of managed backup and storage, EMC hardware sales and services and server virtualization products to LightEdge customers and prospects.
- Achieve assigned revenue quota for sales to LightEdge customers and prospects.
- Develop and execute product sales strategy and plan.
- Serve as “subject matter expert” for LightEdge backup and storage products, EMC hardware products and services and server virtualization.
- Develop individual opportunity strategies and sales plans.
- Build and manage a strong funnel of sales prospects and opportunities.
- Prospect, qualify and make sales presentations to potential customers.
- Lead the sales process for these specialized products, leveraging necessary internal resources, and partners within assigned opportunities.
- Update all sales activities through Microsoft CRM.
- Prepare, complete and process all sales paperwork and documentation.
- Competitive, professional, enthusiastic, independent, confident, persistent, flexible
- Strong knowledge of backup, storage, virtualization and networking products and services.
- Demonstrated history of consultatively selling into “C” level contacts.
- 7+ years of successful sales experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- EMC and VM Ware product knowledge
- ROI and total cost of ownership selling experience preferred.
For job inquiries, please contact Human Resources at hr@lightedge.com.
Senior Account Executive (SAE)
Reports to: Vice President, Sales
The Senior Account Executive (SAE) will manage and up-sell existing customers on our suite of hosted voice, data, and IT services. The SAE is accountable for revenue growth, renewals, and customer satisfaction for a group of accounts within a geographic region.
- Manage an assigned base of LightEdge business customers and targeted prospects.
- Develop and execute a territory strategy and plan.
- Develop account profiles and individual opportunity strategies and sales plans.
- Cross sell and up sell hosted voice, data and IT services to business prospects and customers; utilizing LightEdge sales process and methodology.
- Prospect, qualify and make sales presentations to potential customers.
- Leverage internal product specialists and resources to lead specific product sales.
- Achieve or exceed monthly and quarterly revenue targets.
- Responsible for updating all sales activities through Microsoft CRM.
- Prepare, complete and process all sales paperwork and documentation.
- Competitive, professional, enthusiastic, independent, confident, persistent, flexible
- Knowledge of voice, data, IP, server, and networking technologies.
- Demonstrated history of consultatively selling into “C” level contacts.
- 7+ years experience in a solution based selling role and outside territory management.
- 5 years of voice, data, and IT services sales experience required.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Microsoft, Cisco, Broadsoft, Polycom, IBM, EMC experience a plus.
- ROI and total cost of ownership selling experience preferred.
For job inquiries, please contact Human Resources at hr@lightedge.com.
