Senior Presales Engineer - Data Center at Terawork

Terawork is the leading online talent marketplace in Africa that helps businesses thrive by connecting them with professional talent without geographical barriers. We have a pool of professionals with varying levels of expertise across tech, digital, business and lifestyle services.

Job Title: Senior Presales Engineer - Data Center

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• The Senior Data Center Solutions Presales Engineer will act as a key driver in leading customer engagements to design their private and hybrid cloud Datacenter solutions using servers, storage, virtualization, orchestration, high-availability, backup, and disaster recovery systems.
• The presales engineer will collaborate with our customers to define infrastructure journey maps, technology adoption plans, and long-term strategy.
• You will have the opportunity to execute a solutions selling methodology while fulfilling requests for services/solutions proposals from customers and Business Development team.
• The individual must have a verifiable track record of success architecting IT solutions, proven ability to build trusted partner relationships with customers, and proven ability to lead and execute consultative architecture engagements.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide presales expertise on vendor solutions to the companies’ new and existing customers
• Identify customer technology goals and align solutions for success.
• Identify areas of opportunity within the customer base.
• Increase customer loyalty through effective communications, professionalism, and going above and beyond the customer’s expectations.
• Generate bills of materials, statements of work, proposals, and RFP responses to customers.
• Participate in the preparation of sales campaigns, business plans, and technology sessions for prospects.
• Stay informed about new services, technologies, and other information that may be of interest to clients.
• Provide market intelligence to the management staff and participate in the development of future solution strategies.
• Participate with OEM vendors and SE teams on product roadmaps and strategy.
• Continue to stay current in all aspects of the solutions within your area of expertise.
• Maintain existing vendor certifications and continue to grow technical skill set.

Qualifications

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree qualification.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Datacenter Solutions.
• Experience with SAN, Backup, and Disaster Recovery technologies.
• Experience with server platforms from Cisco, Dell, or HP.
• Experience with public cloud solutions, such as Microsoft, Amazon/AWS.
• Must have the ability to analyze existing and anticipated client requirements and promote consideration of companies’ solutions and services to meet the client’s requirements.
• Must have excellent communication, documentation, and customer facing skills.
• A desire to learn other manufacturer technologies and skills.
• Professional level certifications from DellEMC, VMware, Cisco and any other relevant DC OEMs.

Application Closing Date
7th February, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online