Job Description
Technical Presales
Due to rapid expansion in the EMEA operations, this leading manufacturer of storage products is now seeking a Technical Presales candidate who has extensive experience within the storage industry to join them in their Basingstoke team
The Technical Presales job responsibilities:-
" Support the sales team by taking a consultative role in supporting customer's evaluation processes, including making architectural recommendations,
" Troubleshooting development/configuration issues, and managing escalation to Support and Engineering
" Articulate and educate on technical and architectural storage concepts to a variety of audiences, including resellers, distributors, developers, architects, IT operations professionals and senior IT management
" Provide pre-sales technical support
" Provide technical product presentations and demonstrations
" Work directly with customers in the sales and account management process
" Perform reseller and customer technical product training and certifications
" Provide feedback on features, issues, trends, and other product or market related concerns that affect product sales and acceptance
" Work with Technical Support when required to provide post-sale support
As the Technical Presales candidate you will need to have a Technical knowledge of one or more of the following area:
" SAN, NAS, Unified Storage - File and Block storage & protocols
" Cloud Infrastructures
" Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2012; Linux
" Cluster File Systems
" Windows AD, LDAP
" Virtualisation Hypervisors (VMWare vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix)
" Backup/Restore operations
" RAID configurations
" Overview of IP/FC networks and security
" Disaster recovery and business resiliency
" Systems Management & Monitoring
" Database Technologies
In return
Salary £28 - £32
20 days Holiday + B/H
Pensions
Free parking
Monday to Friday 9 till 5:30