AHEAD

Senior Pre-Sales Engineer - Network

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3 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or San Diego, CA, USASenior

Base Salary

$225k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate the AHEAD virtual team for network infrastructure.
  • Design, architect, and consult on network infrastructure and network security solutions for clients.
  • Partner with sales representatives to develop account strategies and support technical sales campaigns.
  • Identify technologies and vendors, maintain vendor relationships, and collaborate with partner management teams.
  • Size and configure products and develop optimized proposals for customer technical and business requirements.
  • Prepare pre-sales documentation, including configurations, pricing, services, presentations, and business justifications.
  • Qualify opportunities based on technical requirements, decision-making processes, and funding.
  • Present and market proposed solutions and their business value to customers, prospects, and management.
  • Mentor entry-level team members and leverage specialist resources as needed.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent.
  • Pre-sales and data center experience are required.
  • Deep understanding of campus wired and wireless technologies, including wireless principles, site surveys, and Ekahau.
  • Strong campus/LAN, Cisco, Cisco Nexus, IP routing, core data center, network management, and network security knowledge.
  • Familiarity with Palo Alto, Fortinet, SASE, VMware NSX, Arista, F5, NetScaler, AWS, Azure, cloud connectivity, and network fundamentals.
  • Experience working as a technical lead in a pre-sales sales campaign.
  • Cisco certifications are highly recommended, and wireless certifications are viewed favorably.
  • Strong communication, presentation, analytical, problem-solving, interpersonal, teamwork, independence, and customer-focus skills.
  • Ability or willingness to learn SDN, network security, load balancing, edge and acceleration, and cloud technologies.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Paid company holidays and paid time off.
  • Paid parental and caregiver leave.
  • Access to technology labs, cross-department training, and sponsored certifications and credentials.

Tech Stack

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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About AHEAD

1,001-5,000 employees
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