Announced
01 August, 2024
Job Type
Full Time
Job Status
Employee
Job Title
Technical Pre-sales Executive - Abuja
Job Location
Job Presentation
Our client is a leading distributor of technology, services, and lifestyle products in Sub-Saharan Africa. They currently have an opening for a technical presales executive to be based in Abuja, Nigeria.
Job Description:
• Working with clients to determine how their business can use Microsoft cloud services most effectively.
• Analysis and optimization of existing IT environments of customers.
• Customer support of technical projects in on-premises, hybrid, and Cloud systems.
• Remain current on emerging and innovative technologies for end-user computing.
• Contribute to and update bid, project, departmental and technical documents.
• Maintain an awareness of developments and best practices, adapt and apply new and appropriate ideas.
• Work closely with the sales team to identify professional services opportunities and qualify customer requirements early in the sales cycle.
• Work closely with the account and service management teams to identify professional services opportunities within existing accounts.
• Engage directly with customers, often on speculative/pre-RFP requirements, to understand their business challenges and translate these into technology requirements.
• Advise customers on technology choices and options.
• Developing customer proposals, statement of work, supporting cost models, and defining proof of concept engagements where appropriate.
• Providing support to sales and Bid team colleagues for the completion of Bid responses including, Requests for Information, Requests for Proposal, and Pre-qualification Questionnaires.
• Contribute to presales engagements to ensure opportunities are handled appropriately and with clarity in relation to the proposed solution, implementation approach, and customer engagement.
• Use problem-solving creativity to design, architect, and develop high-end technology solutions that solve our client's; most complex and challenging problems across different industries on Microsoft azure.
• Develop deployment of automation using automation tools and scripts to provide a fully functional cloud stack in Azure that supports the Client's environment.
• Build, migrate and test Azure environments and integrations of services with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Develop the ability to architect and integrate on-premises applications, cloud providers, or other platforms with Azure.
• Take an active role in operational and business-development aspects of the business.
• Apply architectural experience to make trade-offs at different layers of the architecture by keeping end customer scenarios business goals, cost and complexity in mind.
• Builds PoCs and demos with Account Managers.
• Fundamental knowledge of common Operating Systems (Windows, Linux);
• Foundation experience or reasonable understanding of some aspect(s) of the network stack and network protocols;
• Understanding of some aspect(s) of computer security: network security, application security, security protocols, cryptography, etc
• Crafting architecture with Microsoft Azure that meets customers’ technical, security, and business needs for apps/workloads.
Qualifications and Experience
• Minimum of 3 years post-graduate experience in similar position
• B.Sc/HND in Engineering, Computer Science or any social science related courses.
Job Description:
• Working with clients to determine how their business can use Microsoft cloud services most effectively.
• Analysis and optimization of existing IT environments of customers.
• Customer support of technical projects in on-premises, hybrid, and Cloud systems.
• Remain current on emerging and innovative technologies for end-user computing.
• Contribute to and update bid, project, departmental and technical documents.
• Maintain an awareness of developments and best practices, adapt and apply new and appropriate ideas.
• Work closely with the sales team to identify professional services opportunities and qualify customer requirements early in the sales cycle.
• Work closely with the account and service management teams to identify professional services opportunities within existing accounts.
• Engage directly with customers, often on speculative/pre-RFP requirements, to understand their business challenges and translate these into technology requirements.
• Advise customers on technology choices and options.
• Developing customer proposals, statement of work, supporting cost models, and defining proof of concept engagements where appropriate.
• Providing support to sales and Bid team colleagues for the completion of Bid responses including, Requests for Information, Requests for Proposal, and Pre-qualification Questionnaires.
• Contribute to presales engagements to ensure opportunities are handled appropriately and with clarity in relation to the proposed solution, implementation approach, and customer engagement.
• Use problem-solving creativity to design, architect, and develop high-end technology solutions that solve our client's; most complex and challenging problems across different industries on Microsoft azure.
• Develop deployment of automation using automation tools and scripts to provide a fully functional cloud stack in Azure that supports the Client's environment.
• Build, migrate and test Azure environments and integrations of services with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Develop the ability to architect and integrate on-premises applications, cloud providers, or other platforms with Azure.
• Take an active role in operational and business-development aspects of the business.
• Apply architectural experience to make trade-offs at different layers of the architecture by keeping end customer scenarios business goals, cost and complexity in mind.
• Builds PoCs and demos with Account Managers.
• Fundamental knowledge of common Operating Systems (Windows, Linux);
• Foundation experience or reasonable understanding of some aspect(s) of the network stack and network protocols;
• Understanding of some aspect(s) of computer security: network security, application security, security protocols, cryptography, etc
• Crafting architecture with Microsoft Azure that meets customers’ technical, security, and business needs for apps/workloads.
Qualifications and Experience
• Minimum of 3 years post-graduate experience in similar position
• B.Sc/HND in Engineering, Computer Science or any social science related courses.
Reference number
ERJ2604
Valid Till
1 Nov, 2024 (45 days left)
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