Want to become part of an exciting company and an enthusiastic team of IT personnel?
- 1a-Are you a server virtualization geek that has experience with enterprise virtualization solutions?
- 1b-Or are you an enterprise storage geek that loves integrating storage with both virtual and non-virtual solutions?
- 1c-Or are you a desktop and application virtualization geek that has experience with products from Microsoft, Citrix, VMware and others?
- 1e-Or maybe a Cisco UCS or Nexus or just a Cisco datacenter geek?
- 1e-Or how about a Microsoft Exchange or SQL junkie that is excited about virtualizing Tier 1 apps?
- 1f-Or maybe you love enterprise data recovery solutions like SAN replication with RecoverPoint or V-plex, and integration of those solutions with VMware SRM?
- 1g-Or maybe you love backup and data protection solutions including Avamar and Networker?
- 1h-Or maybe you love all of the above?
- 2a-In general, do you love working with super cool, ever-changing and complex datacenter technology that solves complex business problems?
- 2b-Do you like to make a difference in the place where you work? Do you like to solve problems? Do you like helping people?
- 2c-Do you find yourself reading the latest blogs and twitter feeds about enterprise IT technologies?
- 2d-Do you like to see yourself getting smarter each day? Do you like to be surrounded by people you respect and who challenge you?
- 2e-Do you like to be fairly compensated and rewarded for your hard work?
- 2f- Do you like to work hard and have fun at the same time?
- 2g- Are you cool with travel throughout the Carolinas and possibly Southern Virginia and Eastern TN?
- 2h- Do you want to be a part of a growing company and all the good and sometimes hard things that go along with that?
Well, if you answered yes to at least a few lines of part 1 of the questioning and you answered yes to all of part 2 of the questioning, then I think we should talk. We are looking for you. We need you.
Varrow was recently ranked as # 89 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies in America.
We have achieved this growth because of our great team. Good people are very hard to find but we’ve done a great job so far and I’m hoping this posting will help us find some more so we can continue our growth and continue to build our reputation of excellence.
Please go to our Careers page to fill out a job application: http://www.varrow.com/?s=one-column&c=careers
We are putting out an APB here. Varrow is continually growing and we need more top talent to maintain our level of growth and to keep serving up top quality solutions to our growing base of customers.
Today, we have 2 Sales Engineering positions open and at least 3 positions for implementation engineers. All positions will be based in the Carolinas.
Don’t apply unless you are passionate about what you do and you have a deep desire to be the very best you can be. We are always looking for great people, period. Oh, and even if you don’t fit one of these 2 types of roles, but you think you have something we need, go to our careers page and submit a resume and a good cover letter anyway. You never know.
Sales Engineering positions are open for a position covering the western side of North Carolina. Also, we are looking for a Sales Engineer to cover South Carolina and Charlotte areas.
Implementation Engineering positions are available across the Carolinas.
Our main areas of concentration of employees are in Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro and Columbia. So if you live, or are willing to live, in or near one of those areas, that would be best.
So what makes a great Varrow employee?
Well, across the board at Varrow, no matter the position, successful individuals are self-motivated, love to be challenged, are extremely passionate about their area of focus and finally, they are excited to play a role in helping this small business maintain its rapid growth and quality reputation.
For Sales Engineers specifically: You have to love to be in front of customers, and you must love to present, and should be strong technically on a wide range of datacenter products. This is a very demanding job that requires day travel and some overnight travel going from sales call to sales call and a considerable amount of technical sales related tasks to help provide the right solutions for our customers. You must be willing to present technically at tradeshows or marketing events in addition to presenting in front of a wide range of customer audiences on different technologies. You must be able to build very strong relationships with your customers and with the sales reps that you cover and you have to be very organized in managing your schedule and many tasks. A good sales engineer must have enterprise datacenter experience, have a very strong work ethic, have a strong logical engineer thinking brain but have the business street smarts of a sales rep and be able to provide a very high level of customer service. Sales Engineers are required to maintain technical certification in certain specific areas but be capable of carrying on technical conversations with Varrow customers in all of our areas of focus. Certifications such as VCP, CCNA, CCIE, CCEE, EMC Storage specialist are desired. But really even more important than a certification is experience. And more important than experience is an ability to learn quickly. And possibly more important than that is having the right attitude. The Sales Engineering role is measured and rewarded based on quarterly sales success and meeting technical certification goals and other MBOs set by management. We deal with midsize to enterprise customers and complex solutions ranging from Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp, VMware View, SRM, ESX, LabManager, Clariion, Celerra, V-Max, V-plex, RecoverPoint, Networker, Avamar, DataDomain, DPA, Cisco UCS, Nexus, MDS, Virtualized Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Oracle solutions…etc. Just to name a few. If you have enterprise experience in some of these areas and you want to grow your experience, then this is the place. We do offer training but we also expect people to be able to self-study as well. We have lots of lab gear, pretty much everything listed above except for V-Max and V-plex, we have in our labs.
For implementation engineers specifically: You have to be very good technically in your area of focus, but you also need to be humble at the same time. You need to care deeply for your customers and provide the highest levels of customer service. Implementation engineers aren’t usually involved heavily in the formal sales process but if you think about it, our implementation engineers are the glue that keeps us in our customers and therefore are our best salespeople. If our implementation engineers are not the best, our entire value prop goes down the drain. Implementation engineers typically specialize in a few areas where Sales Engineers typically are broader in their areas of knowledge. Certifications such as VCP, CCNA, CCIE, CCEE, EMC Storage specialist are desired. But really even more important than a certification is experience. And more important than experience is an ability to learn quickly. And possibly more important than that is having the right attitude. The Implementation engineering role is measured and rewarded based on billability goals and meeting technical certification goals and other MBOs set by management. We deal with midsize to enterprise customers and complex solutions ranging from Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp, VMware View, SRM, ESX, LabManager, Clariion, Celerra, V-Max, V-plex, RecoverPoint, Networker, Avamar, DataDomain, DPA, Cisco UCS, Nexus, MDS, Virtualized Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Oracle solutions…etc. Just to name a few. If you have enterprise experience in some of these areas and you want to grow your experience, then this is the place. We do offer training but we also expect people to be able to self-study as well. We have lots of lab gear, pretty much everything listed above except for V-Max and V-plex. Both day travel and some overnight travel are required throughout the Carolinas, Southern Virginia and Eastern TN. There are also opportunities to work from home when not at a customer location.
Other things to know about Varrow:
The business formally started as Cook Consulting Services in 2004. But I like to tell people we really didn’t start to figure out who we were until around late 2006 when we changed our name to Varrow and we decided we were going to focus on high-end datacenter solutions built around virtualization technologies. We started participating heavily in VMware user groups in Greensboro and Charlotte in 2007 and we had another big breakthrough in 2007 when we picked up EMC as our storage vendor partner. And then when we formally merged with Weiss IT Consulting as of January 2008 and officially changed the name to Varrow, Inc., that is when things really took off to the next level. We are a high-touch services company built by engineers. We pride ourselves in having the best engineers (both presales and post sales) in our areas of focus who also deliver the best customer service in the region. We also have a world class sales team that when coupled with our world-class engineering team, has lead us to the growth we have achieved since our humble beginnings in a basement in Greensboro in 2004. This is a fast paced business and it can be “crazy” at times going through the rapid growth and keeping up with the ever-changing marketplace. We have grown from 5 people as of January 2008 to 35 people as of September 2010. To succeed here, you have to be willing to put up with, and even enjoy, “the craziness” that goes along with the “goodness”
. We are not a large corporation nor have we been around for a long time. We don’t have it all figured out but I think we have made some great achievements so far and we look forward to many more. We are still young, still eager, still hungry, still driven, still learning. Sometimes we have to figure things out as we go, but that is part of the fun. We all learn something new every day. We have a great set of customers that we care deeply for and we hire the very best people we can find to serve those customers as best as we possibly can. We have a great set of vendors that we work with as well: EMC, Vmware, Cisco and Citrix just to name the top 4. We build strong healthy relationships with our customers, our vendors and our employees. We work hard and we demand excellence. And we are super-duper passionate about what we do! 
Awards and Recognition:
- One of the first VMware Premier Partners in the Carolinas as of 2007
- To date, we have the most VCPs in the Carolinas of any reseller
- Top VMware revenue producing partner in the Carolinas in 2007
- Fastest growing EMC Partner in the Country in 2008
- Won Regional VMware growth awards in 2008
- Cisco Rookie Partner Award for the Carolinas in 2009
- EMC Commercial Partner of the Year for North America 2009
- Achieved Cisco UCS ATP Partner Certification in 2010 and became one of only 54 Vblock Partners in the World
- We have 2 vExperts on staff and one VCDX, Clariion Specialists, Celerra Specialists, 2 CCIE-writtens, More than 10 VCP’s
- Ranked Number 5 of Triad Fastest Growing companies in 2009
- Ranked Number 89 fastest growing company in United States 2010 per Inc. Magazine
- Our engineers all blog and we have gotten lots of recognition for our blogs, which is awesome
- And most importantly, we have built some very strong relationships with some very wonderful customers based on our excellence and integrity over this time. The greatest award is to have repeat customers and to earn new customers based on great references.
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We look forward to hearing from you.