Solutions Architect – Pre-Sales – Melbourne
February 22, 2016
Senior Technical Pre-Sales Consultant – Solution Architect
Permanent – Melbourne or Sydney
ROLE
Global IT provider in the communications space is looking for Technical Pre-Sales Solution Architect who has breadth of experience across: Infrastructure/Network/Backups/Storage/ Server Virtualisation/ Cloud /Data Centre Services/Security/WAN/LAN.
This Pre-sales Consultant/Solution Architect role will require you to have an eye for detail and be able to identify technical requirements for our enterprise sized customers. You will love and be skilled at working closely with sales executives, meeting customers at the start of sales cycle and client engagement.
IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE 5+ YEARS PRE-SALES EXPERIENCE:
- Doing technical demonstrations and presentations to customers.
- Building complex solutions with multiple parties in the Cloud, Infrastructure, Managed Services or Network space.
- Having awareness of business and commercial understanding to build better solutions.
- Managing stakeholder relationships
- Excelling at technical presentations and POCs
- Building detailed network diagrams and documents
- Working closely with internal business teams including Project Managers, Engineers and Service Delivery Managers
TECHNICAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Strong working knowledge of data centre services and storage and backup services, delivered as-a-service
- Strong working knowledge of cloud services and their benefits
- Experience building complex solutions that include:
- Datacentre & disaster recovery technologies including but not limited to :
- Server vendor products for x86 and blade platforms (Dell, IBM, Oracle, HP)
- Virtualization technology (VMware, OVM)
- Cross-vendor networking (routing, switching, VPN, load balancing, security & firewalls – Cisco, Juniper, F5)
- Operating Systems (MS, RHEL, OEL, clustering, AD/LDAP)
- Working knowledge of database (Oracle, SQL)
- Storage technologies and systems (NAS/SAN, performance, replication, data protection)
- Security products and services (IPSec, SSL)
- Access control and user authentication solutions
EDUCATION
Relevant technology degree and or certifications.
For further information, please email dee.pollett@citirecruitment.com
Steve Revins
Senior Tech Talent Manager
An Irish cat living the dream in Sydney I don’t know what to tell ya! Even though I’m a long way from the homeland I’ve successfully built up 5 years of local industry knowledge specialising in emerging technologies. I have a strong JAVA and Ruby on Rails following in NSW and VIC. I also have extensive experience sourcing specialist software development teams for technology companies with highly transactional, high volume, data intensive environments. Let’s catch up for a pint, but do send me a message and we’ll see what happens!
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