Presales Engineer

Hamilton Barnes ?; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes is looking for a Senior Pre-Sales/Solutions Architect based in Central London, offering a hybrid work model. This role involves leading technical efforts in customer discovery and solution design for AI infrastructure.

Candidates should have strong expertise in VMware and private cloud, with a solid background in customer-facing roles. This position presents a unique opportunity to shape innovative AI and GPU-based solutions within a rapidly growing MSP.

Qualifications

• Strong VMware & private cloud expertise.
• Experience in MSP, cloud or enterprise infrastructure.
• Customer-facing and consultative solution design experience.
• Strong understanding of compute, storage, networking & data center technologies.
• Exposure to AI/GPU/HPC environments is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical lead across customer discovery, solution design, and infrastructure architecture.

Skills

VMware expertise

Private cloud expertise

Customer-facing experience

Solution design experience

Understanding of compute technologies

Familiarity with AI/GPU/HPC

Job description

Overview

Senior Pre-Sales/Solutions Architect – AI Infrastructure

Central London (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)

This is an exciting opportunity with a specialist Managed Service Provider that is making a major investment into the AI infrastructure and GPU compute space, a unique opportunity to join a business that owns and operates its own data centre environment and is now building high-density infrastructure solutions to support next-generation AI workloads.

We are looking for a Senior Pre-Sales/Solutions Architect to act as the technical lead across customer discovery, solution design, and infrastructure architecture - sitting between sales, engineering, and enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical lead across customer discovery, solution design, and infrastructure architecture, bridging sales, engineering, and enterprise customers.

Qualifications / Key experience

• Strong VMware & private cloud expertise
• Experience within MSP, cloud or enterprise infrastructure environments
• Customer-facing and consultative solution design experience
• Strong understanding of compute, storage, networking & data centre technologies
• Exposure to AI/GPU/HPC environments is beneficial

Why this role stands out

• Greenfield AI infrastructure build-out with significant growth plans
• Opportunity to help shape a GPUaaS/AI platform from an early stage
• Real ownership and influence over technical and architectural decisions
• Exposure to next-generation AI, HPC and GPU technologies
• Blend of customer engagement, technical consulting, and strategic solution design
• Close collaboration with CTO-level stakeholders and enterprise customers
• Join a business with owned infrastructure and genuine market differentiation
• Opportunity to transition into AI/GPU infrastructure from a VMware/private cloud background
• Strong long-term progression potential as the AI division scales