About the job

About the Company

Our client is looking for an experienced Technical Pre-Sales Engineer (Servers & Storage) to lead the server and storage aspects of our enterprise IT solutions.

About the Role

In this role, you will be the main technical expert for servers and storage throughout the sales process. You will be responsible for designing solutions, calculating system requirements, preparing Bills of Materials (BOMs), ensuring compliance with tender requirements, and supporting customer proposals. You should have a strong understanding of how servers and storage work with virtualization, backup, disaster recovery (DR), and data center environments. While your main expertise should be in compute and storage technologies, you will work with technology vendors and specialized experts when deeper knowledge is required in related areas.

Responsibilities

• Customer Engagement & Solution Design Engage customers to understand business requirements, workloads, infrastructure constraints and future growth.
• Design enterprise server and storage solutions: platform selection,storage architecture,sizing,performance
• Ensure server and storage designs integrate correctly with the customer's virtualization, backup/DR and data-centre environment.
• Perform capacity planning, workload sizing, performance analysis, configuration validation and growth planning.
• Conduct site visits and infrastructure assessments, including government and defense facilities.
• Evaluate and compare OEM server and storage platforms to recommend the most suitable and commercially competitive solution.

• Technical Documentation & Proposals Prepare High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLD/LLD), solution architectures, technical specifications and BOMs for the server and storage scope.
• Prepare server/storage technical responses for RFPs, RFQs, tenders, compliance sheets and customer questionnaires, and own their technical accuracy and tender compliance.
• Validate configurations for compatibility, interoperability, redundancy, scalability and performance.
• Build and validate the BOM so it supports accurate costing and OEM deal registration.
• Ensure proposed solutions meet customer requirements, OEM guidelines, implementation requirements and — where applicable — government requirements such as data residency/sovereignty and security hardening.

• Pre-Sales & Sales Support Support the sales team during customer meetings, technical discussions, presentations, negotiations and clarifications.
• Conduct technical presentations, solution demonstrations, workshops and Proofs of Concept (PoCs) where required.
• Provide technical authority and guidance on server and storage throughout the sales cycle.
• Work with server and storage OEMs, distributors and technology partners to develop technically sound and commercially competitive solutions, and to secure pre-sales technical resources where needed.

• Solution Handover & Delivery Coordination Coordinate with implementation and delivery teams to ensure proposed solutions are technically feasible and accurately scoped.
• Provide technical clarification and solution documentation during project handover.
• Ensure alignment between the proposed architecture, BOM, customer expectations and delivery requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or diploma in Computer Science, IT, Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline.

Required Skills

• Technical Expertise Core depth — strong, hands-on expertise:Enterprise Servers: rack and blade servers, platform selection, CPU/memory/IO sizing, firmware, compatibility and interoperability.
• Enterprise Storage: SAN, NAS, unified storage, all-flash and hybrid storage architectures.
• Storage Technologies: RAID, snapshots, replication, tiering, deduplication, compression and storage performance optimization.
• Storage Connectivity: Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, zoning, multipathing and storage fabric design.
• Capacity & Performance: workload-based sizing, capacity planning, performance analysis, scalability and growth planning.
• High Availability: server and storage redundancy, clustering concepts, resilience and availability design.
• Supporting knowledge — strong working knowledge:Virtualization: VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, particularly their integration with enterprise compute and storage.
• Backup & Disaster Recovery: backup architecture, recovery requirements, replication, retention and associated storage sizing.
• Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Server and Linux environments.
• Data Centre Infrastructure: server, storage, networking, virtualization, backup and related data-centre dependencies.

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