Technical Pre-Sales Executive - Abuja

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.