Infrastructure Solutions Architect - Pre-Sales & Design

Lenovo; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo ISG Technical Specialist role focuses on providing deep technical expertise across servers, storage, networking, and software-defined solutions. You’ll collaborate with sales teams, partners, and customers to design and validate modern infrastructure architectures that meet workload needs.

You will lead pre-sales activities, architecture design, and customer engagements, with hands-on experience in virtualization, cloud platforms, and HCI ecosystems within Lenovo ISG.

Qualifications

• Experience in pre-sales and design
• Ability to translate business requirements into architectures
• Strong presentation and demo skills

Responsibilities

• Technical Pre‑Sales Support — Deliver product expertise and demonstrations
• Solution Design Architecture — Build optimized infrastructure designs
• Customer Engagement — Lead technical discussions and proof‑of‑concepts
• Partner Enablement — Train and support channel partners
• Bid Proposal Support — Contribute to RFPs and BOMs
• Technical Evangelism — Represent Lenovo ISG at events and webinars

Skills

Servers

Storage

Virtualization

Hyperconverged

Cloud

Tools

VMware

Nutanix

Microsoft

Red Hat

Job description

Lenovo ISG Technical Specialist role focuses on providing deep technical expertise across servers, storage, networking, and software-defined solutions. You’ll collaborate with sales teams, partners, and customers to design and validate modern infrastructure architectures that meet workload needs.

You will lead pre-sales activities, architecture design, and customer engagements, with hands-on experience in virtualization, cloud platforms, and HCI ecosystems within Lenovo ISG.