Pre-Sales and Technical Solutions Engineer at Netcom African Limited

Netcom has been Nigeria’s leading Internet Service Provider since 2004, staying ahead of the competition with cutting edge platforms in VSAT, WIMAX, Radio, and Fiber technology. Now, a pioneer in Business Transformation Solutions, we empower organizations to lead their market space by keeping pace with the rapid changes in IT innovations, ensuring relevance to specific business initiatives required to maximize revenue generation.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Pre-Sales and Technical Solutions Engineer

Location: Nigeria

Job Summary

Drive and support the technical proposal and costing process as economic technical solution provider, in cooperation with technical capability owners, to both prospective customers and representatives of currently assigned client accounts.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Respond to customer requests for proposals received through BDD, develop technical solution designs and bills of materials for cost-effective solutions.
Provide basic design information of solution scope, functional description, bill of material and specification to serve as a basis for independent delivery / implementation by Project Engineering team and capability owners representatives as applicable.
Provide Technical Sales Support for the company’s portfolio of products and services and effectively communicate the value proposition of offered solutions.
Collaborate with BDD, Capability Owners and other technical OEM resources to ensure proposed deals include technical solutions that accurately address customer needs and are appropriately supported by key customer technical decision-makers.
To continually keep up with new technologies entering the market and refresh technical sales training and certification to stay current with evolving technologies and continue to develop optimal product and service offering.
Gather and prioritize customer requirements and other market insights to define the future of Netcom products and services and to recommend new product lines.
Achieve product and service pre-sales engineering productivity, profitability, and growth targets.
Develop thorough knowledge of technology relating to the product technology and experience in network, storage, servers, cloud, and security solutions.

Experience, Education and / or Professional Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degrees in Computer Science, Network Engineering or Information Security.
Alternatively, an associate degree when holding technology certifications in networking, (cloud) storage, security, or virtualization.
3 – 5 years job experience in the information technology or related technical service provider sector.
A record of achievement and technical solution expertise in a comparable Pre-Sales role.
Product sales certification, engineering design credentials, or equivalent technical sales credentials for OEM solutions.
Demonstrated success defining, launching, and managing product lines.
Demonstrated track record in developing product strategies.

Essential Skills / Knowledge / Traits:

Ability and capability to understand customer requirements and determine the best solutions
Demonstrate understanding of systems administration and performance tuning of application/software – virtualization, containerization, automation software, Cloud architecture, UNIX/Linux based environments, etc.
Demonstrate understanding of network design and implementation in IP networks is a must – switches, routers, firewalls, bandwidth managers, IP telephony systems, wireless network, etc.
Ability to work as a motivated self-driven team player in coordination with capability owners and Account Managers for standard solutions and with HOD’s and Management for non-standard and new products and services solutions.
Commitment to developing and maintaining long-term customer relationships.
Excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills.

Desirable Skills / Knowledge / Traits: