Presales Consultant - Network Security

Responsibilities:

• Designs, presents, and demonstrates the enterprise architecture for their assigned Network and Network Security domain(s), and provides technical consulting to medium to large corporate and government organizations.
• Required to understand customer requirements and provide consultation/design on the architecture and solution.
• During the qualifying process, confirm that products meet the prospect's/customer's requirements and assist sales in technical qualification. Throughout the proposal process, articulate and demonstrate solutions, influence customers' technical requirements, and position products relative to the competition.
• To assist the account/sales team in preparing solution documents, proposals, and responses to RFQ/RFP.
• Make technical designs and presentations, and be a technical lead on all major opportunities.
• To work closely with the Service delivery team to ensure clarity in the scope of work and the cost analysis.

Requirements:

• Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's / Postgraduate degree in Engineering (CSE, IT, EEE, ECE, EIE) with an academic record.
• At least 5 + years of working experience in presales in networking and/or network security domain.
• Should have experience in managing enterprise customers.
• Excellent communication skills (spoken and written English); professional presentation skills; self-starter, cooperative attitude; team player.
• Must have excellent interpersonal and time management skills.
• Excellent knowledge of LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, routers, Campus switches, Fabric Switches, wireless access points and controllers, Load balancer/Application Delivery Controllers, Global Load Balancers, WAN Optimization, Network Access Control Solutions, Network Analytics, and Firewall.
• Should have excellent knowledge in creating Bills of Material, writing Scope Documents, and creating High-level Design documents, along with technical solution writing skills. - Mandatory.

Skills:

• Good Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and VISIO.
• Working knowledge of vendor products and technologies from Aruba, Cisco, Juniper, Extreme, Fortinet, Checkpoint, F5 Radware, Riverbed, and CITRIX will be a Plus.
• The ability to conduct Proof of Concepts will be a Plus.
• Must be able to learn new technologies quickly.
• Should be a self-starter with minimal help and supervision.

Skills

BOM, LAN, RFP, SD-WAN, Visio, architecture, firewall, network security, networking, presales, solution design