About the roleThis is a hands-on architecture and presales role. You will lead technical discovery, translate customer requirements into practical solution designs, develop accurate bills of materials, engage with vendors and distributors, and support opportunities from initial qualification through to proposal, customer presentation and project handover. The successful candidate must have strong Cisco and enterprise network architecture experience, understand VMware-based infrastructure, and have demonstrated experience designing solutions involving HPE, Dell Technologies or NetApp. You will need to understand not only whether a solution works technically, but whether it is complete, deliverable, commercially competitive and appropriate for the customer.

• Key responsibilitiesLead customer discovery sessions and technical workshops.
• Understand customer business, technical, operational and commercial requirements.
• Design secure, resilient and scalable network and data centre solutions.
• Develop high-level and detailed solution architectures.
• Build complete and accurate bills of materials using vendor and distributor tools.
• Design Cisco networking solutions across data centre, campus, branch, wireless, security and connectivity environments.
• Develop infrastructure solutions incorporating compute, virtualisation, storage, backup and disaster recovery.
• Design and validate VMware environments, including compute, storage, networking, resilience and licensing requirements.
• Develop solutions incorporating HPE, Dell Technologies or NetApp platforms.
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