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Pre-Sales Engineer

GV Alliance Partners - Lagos


Posted: Nov 7th, 2019

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Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation.


Responsibilities

  • You will be responsible for determining the technical requirements to meet client goals and act as the liaison between the various groups in the organization.
  • You will collaborate with the sales and services teams by acting as technical experts in customer presentations.
  • You will Manage and interpret customer requirements; also persuade clients on the product or service that will best satisfy their needs.
  • You will Interface with client architects and cloud service providers to ensure that the defined solution is signed-off by all the stakeholders.
  • You will be making technical presentations and demonstrating how a product will meet client needs.
  • Maintain Company IT standards, Architecture principles and Strategy, Roadmap, and use cases.
  • You will be traveling to visit potential clients where necessary.
  • You will be analyzing costs and sales; calculating client quotations.
  • Negotiating tender and contract terms.
  • Offering after-sales support services.
  • Helping in the design of custom-made products.
  • Providing training and producing support material for the sales team.
  • Any other task as assigned to you by your line manager.

Minimum: B.Sc/B.A
Experience: 1-3 year(s)
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: Negotiable
Expires: 15-11-2019

General Requirements

  • In depth understanding of Microsoft Azure & AWS, IaaS, specifically: App Services, Azure SQL Database, SQL Server IaaS implementation, Availability sets, Azure Networking concepts, Express Route, DNS, Load Balancing, Storage.
  • For the level of this role, we will consider 3 to 5 years year’s experience in a presales or related field over the course of your career; the more years the better.
  • Understanding about the challenges and considerations to be catered for while migrating applications from on-premise to Azure.
  • Define solution architecture which meets availability, disaster recovery and availability requirements as specified by the customer.
  • Knowledge of migrating applications to Cloud using Tools like AppZero, ASR, etc will be nice to have.
  • Fundamental knowledge of AWS is also required and understanding of how Azure IaaS v/s AWS IaaS compares to each other and conceptual knowledge of AWS RDS is desired.
  • Fundamental knowledge of GCP (Google Cloud Platform) is also required and understanding of how GCP IaaS v/s AWS and Azure IaaS compare to each other.
  • Soft Skills such as writing Proposals and Presenting up to C-Levels is a must.
  • Preferably from Developer background (.net, Java).
  • Microsoft Azure certifications desirable.
  • Extensive client-facing skills and the ability to work independently.