Presales Engineer

Sangfor Technologies Philippines; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Sangfor Technologies in Saudi Arabia invites an experienced IT pre-sales specialist to translate customer needs into compelling technology strategies. You will lead requirement analysis, prepare proposals, conduct proofs-of-concept, and map client objectives to Sangfor solutions, planning timelines and resources.

You will showcase business value, coordinate with HQ, and support partners with technical recognition and training.

Qualifications

• Pre-sales experience in IT with focus on networking and data center solutions.
• Strong knowledge of virtualization and hyper-converged infrastructure.
• Experience with VMware, Simplivity or Nutanix.
• Certifications such as VMware VCP/VCAP or AWS/Azure preferred.
• Excellent written and spoken English; other languages beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Identify requirements and business opportunities from meetings; develop project strategy.
• Prepare and deliver business value solutions; write proposals and conduct proof-of-concept.
• Understand infrastructure requirements; propose technical solutions and resource estimates.
• Prepare technical documents; coordinate with HQ to optimize features.
• Oversee partner's technical presales personnel recognition, training and support.
• Perform ad-hoc duties as required.

Skills

Pre-sales experience

Network best practices

Virtualization

Hyper Converged Infra

Cloud computing

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

English proficiency

Tools

VMware

Nutanix

Sangfor products

AWS/Azure

VMware VCP/VCAP

Job description

1.Identifiy requirement and business opportunity from Customer/ Partner meeting, develop project technology strategy by understanding key client objectives; diagnosing and mapping client requirements; articulating solution risks and barriers; recommending project approaches; preparing time and cost estimates; and planning full project life cycle.

2. Prepare and deliver the business value solutions for customers, including proposal writing, presentation, and conduct proof-of-concept to showcase its technical feasibility when necessary.

3. Understand main industries infrastructure requirement. Propose technical solutions and oversee the selection of technologies and estimate resources required to develop the proposed solutions to meet customer’s requirements.

4. Complete technical document refer to project/training/site-reference etc., correlate with HQ team to collect local requirement and push HQ to optimize product features.

5. Responsible for partner's technical and presales personnel technical recognition, training and support

6. Any other ad-hoc duties as required or assigned.

1.Experiences in IT industry as pre-sales is required, including solid knowledge of network best practices. Thorough understanding of server, storage, cloud, virtualization, hyper converged infrastructure, virtual desktop infrastructure

2. Good knowledge of virtualization, Hyper Converged Infrastructure, cloud computing

3. Know well about main stream virtualization or hyper converged solution (Vmware, Simplivity, Nutanix, etc.) have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and a solid understanding of how to troubleshoot technical issues that involve Sangfor products.

4.Certifications for Sangfor products or others such as Vmware VCP or VCAP, Certified Solution Architect from AWS or Azure etc. along with proven experience will be preferred.

5.Excellent oral and written communication skills, English can be working language strong desire to learn and grow their technical and sales skills.