Senior Systems Engineer - UK

83zero Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Private medical

Dental

Life insurance

Pension

Stock options

Travel opportunities

Job summary

83zero Ltd in London and the South UK is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer / Pre-Sales Specialist to lead the technical aspects of the sales cycle across the region. This is a home-based role with customer travel.

You will partner with the field sales team to understand backup, recovery and storage requirements, deliver demos, run workshops, support POCs and position the value of the technology against competitors.

Qualifications

• Experience in customer-facing technical roles (senior systems engineer, pre-sales, sales engineer, or similar).
• Able to explain complex infrastructure topics clearly and credibly challenge enterprise IT teams.
• Strong pre-sales capability with solid storage and backup infrastructure knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical presentation, demos, workshops, and solution briefings.
• Support enterprise sales cycles from discovery through to close.
• Run solution design, sizing, architecture and technical validation.
• Support POCs, RFPs, RFIs and technical proposals.
• Advise on backup, recovery, ransomware resilience, storage and DR requirements.
• Collaborate with partners, resellers, and internal teams to position the solution.

Skills

Pre-sales capability

Infrastructure knowledge

Customer-facing

Backup & storage

Technical advisory

Tools

Veeam

Commvault

Veritas

NetBackup

Rubrik

Cohesity

Job description

Senior Systems Engineer

London & South UK | Home-based with customer travel

• 70/30 split


• £9,000 car allowance


• Stock


• Private medical


• Dental


• Life insurance


• Pension

We're working with a high-growth, global data protection and cyber resilience vendor that is continuing to take serious market share across the backup, recovery and storage space.

They are now looking for a Senior Systems Engineer / Pre-Sales Specialist to play a key role across the London and South UK region.

This is a home-based role, but it is not a desk-only position. You'll be expected to get in front of customers, partners and prospects across London, with additional travel across the South of the UK where required.

The opportunity

You'll work closely with the sales team as the technical lead through the sales cycle - helping customers understand their current backup, recovery and storage challenges, shaping the right solution, running technical workshops, delivering demos, supporting POCs, and positioning the value of the technology against major competitors in the market.

What you'll be doing

You'll act as the trusted technical advisor for customers and partners across the region, working alongside field sales to identify requirements, design solutions and move opportunities forward.

Day to day, this will include:

• Delivering technical presentations, demos, workshops and solution briefings


• Supporting enterprise sales cycles from discovery through to close


• Running solution design, sizing, architecture and technical validation


• Supporting POCs, RFPs, RFIs and technical proposals


• Working with customers around backup, recovery, ransomware resilience, storage and disaster recovery requirements


• Helping partners and resellers understand the technology and how to position it effectively


• Building strong relationships with technical stakeholders, infrastructure teams, IT leaders and channel partners


• Working closely with sales, post-sales and support teams to ensure a strong customer experience

What we’re looking for

We need someone already operating in a customer-facing technical role, ideally as a:

Senior Systems Engineer, Pre-Sales Consultant, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Technical Architect or similar.

You'll need to be comfortable being the technical lead in front of customers, able to explain complex infrastructure topics clearly, and credible enough to challenge, advise and guide enterprise IT teams.

The strongest fit will bring experience across areas such as:

• Backup, recovery, disaster recovery or data protection


• Storage infrastructure, secondary storage or backup appliances


• Ransomware resilience, immutability, air-gapped recovery or cyber recovery


• Enterprise infrastructure environments


• Pre-sales demos, workshops, technical discovery and solution design


• Working with backup platforms such as Veeam, Commvault, Veritas, NetBackup, Rubrik, Cohesity or similar


• Supporting partner/channel-led sales motionsYou don't need to tick every single box, but you do need to have strong pre-sales capability, solid infrastructure knowledge, and the confidence to own the technical side of a sales cycle.

Why this role?

This would suit someone who is technically strong, commercially aware, comfortable in front of customers, and looking for a role where they can genuinely influence growth across a key UK region.