Presales Engineer (Telecommunications & Technology Solutions) at Avetium Consult Limited

Avetium Consult is a Business Process Outsourcing and Technology solution company incorporated in Nigeria. Avetium Consult is what happens when top experts of top multinationals from diverse fields and similar values come together to deliver transformational solutions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Presales Engineer (Telecommunications & Technology Solutions)

Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Employment Type: Contract
Department: Enterprise Business Unit

Responsibilities
Customer Engagement & Technical Advisory:

• Engage CIO/CTO/IT leadership and technical teams to articulate value propositions across telecom and advanced ICT portfolios.
• Lead discovery workshops to elicit requirements, constraints, KPIs and success criteria; translate business outcomes into technical designs.
• Run whiteboard sessions and executive briefings that connect architecture choices to TCO/ROI and risk reduction.

Solution Design & Architecture:

• Produce end‑to‑end architectures, HLDs/LLDs, BoQs and Visio diagrams that combine traditional telecom with modern ICT capabilities.
• Traditional Telecom: Internet & Data (Fiber, Microwave, IP‑VPN/MPLS), Enterprise Voice (SIP Trunking, Hosted PBX), Mobile enterprise services (APNs, IoT SIMs).
• Cloud: IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, private & hybrid cloud, backup/DRaaS, landing zones and migration runbooks.
• Cybersecurity: NGFW, IPS/IDS, VPN, SASE/Zero‑Trust, EDR/XDR, email/web security, SOC/SIEM/SOAR, vulnerability & posture management.
• IoT: device connectivity (NB‑IoT/LTE‑M), gateways, telemetry (MQTT/AMQP), edge analytics, IoT platforms and dashboards.
• UCC/Contact Center: Teams/Zoom/Webex, SBCs, voice enablement, recording/compliance, omnichannel CCaaS.
• Managed Networks: LAN/WLAN/Wi‑Fi 6/6E, NAC, managed firewall, performance monitoring & SLAs.
• SD‑WAN: multi‑vendor overlays, underlay design/last‑mile diversity, app‑aware policies, cloud on‑ramps, HA/DR.
• Data Center: colocation racks/cages, power/cooling, cross‑connects, inter‑DC resilience, carrier‑neutral peering.
• Satellite: LEO back‑up/primary access, VSAT architectures and antenna/power/site considerations.

Sales Enablement & Bid Support:

• Qualify opportunities with Account Managers; map stakeholders, buying centers and use‑cases.
• Lead the technical sections of RFx responses; craft compliant, differentiating proposals and executive summaries.
• Contribute to deal pricing and solution TCO models; align commercials to architecture options and SLA tiers.
• Deliver internal enablement: playbooks, competitive battlecards, and demo scripts.

Demonstrations, PoCs & Trials:

• Build and run demos for SD‑WAN, SASE, UCC, Cloud landing zones, monitoring and IoT stacks.
• Design proof‑of‑concepts with measurable success criteria; document results and transition to delivery teams.

Stakeholder & Partner Management:

• Act as liaison between customers, Sales, Product, Engineering, Operations and Service Management.
• Engage OEM/ISV/Cloud partners for validation, special bid support and roadmap alignment.
• Capture voice‑of‑customer and feed into product backlog and service catalogue updates.

Documentation, Governance & Reporting:

• Maintain reusable HLD/LLD templates, configuration baselines and architecture decision records (ADRs).
• Ensure compliance with standards (e.g., ISO 27001, PCI‑DSS, NDPR/GDPR where applicable) and internal design governance.
• Provide pipeline/PoC status, win‑loss insights and risk/issue logs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications Engineering or related field; advanced degree a plus.
• 4–7 years in Presales/Solution Architecture/Network or Systems Engineering within Telco/ISP/SI/Cloud provider environments.
• Relevant certifications (nice‑to‑have): CCNA/CCNP, Azure/AWS Architect, Fortinet NSE/Palo Alto PCNSE, SD‑WAN vendor certs, ITIL, Security+.
• Telecom fundamentals: IP routing/switching, BGP/OSPF, QoS, MPLS, DWDM/microwave basics.
• Cloud: AWS/Azure/GCP architectures, VPC/VNet design, IAM, backup/DR, landing zones.
• Security: NGFW, VPN, SASE/ZTNA, SOC operations, SIEM/SOAR, identity & endpoint security.
• SD‑WAN/UCC/Data Center/IoT and Satellite engineering knowledge; ability to compare vendor approaches.
• Tooling: Visio/Lucidchart, Wi‑Fi planners, monitoring/APM, scripting basics for demos (e.g., Python/PowerShell).

Application Closing Date
30th April, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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