Technical pre-sales engineer - £35,000 - £45,000 + Bonus + Car + work from home

[SchoolsBroadband]

Technical Pre - sales engineer

Salary: £35,000 - £45,000 + Bonus + Car

Location: Work from home + travel to customers

 

Talk Straight / Schools Broadband is a leading telecommunications and Internet Service Provider to the business and education market in the UK. We use our own network to deliver business critical services including Cloud, Voice Services, Connectivity, Security and Content Filtering. We are currently recruiting for an enthusiastic and technically competent pre - sales engineer to help the company during a significant period of growth.

 

* Design ICT and network solutions for our corporate, SME and education sector customers from a technical perspective

 

* Assist account managers with technical queries from existing and potential clients

 

* Assist account managers with solution design and pricing for existing and potential clients using the following technologies WAN / LAN / VPN / OSPF / VLAN / VPLS / MPLS / Data centre hosting / Internet / wireless / Email / Storage / Virtualisation / BT WLR3 / BT 21CN (including Microsoft Visio network diagrams, FortiAP wireless solutions etc)

 

*Attend internal and external customer meetings and conference calls with Sales Account Managers, or on your own as required.

 

* Work with your counterparts from our vendors and telco’s to help design and correctly specify technical solutions as per the above

 

* Attend and present or speak at events in conjunction with the Sales Director and account management team in front of numerous potential clients demonstrating and talking about why potential customers should buy our products. These may be based anywhere in the UK.

 

* Technically vet and investigate new technology / products to sell as part of the new customer product life cycle

 

* Attend key vendor events to keep us one step ahead of the competition by being able to see what technology our customers should be using in the future to benefit them and our business

 

* Help technically train and create a training program for our Schools Broadband wholesale partners and our own Internal Account Managers

 

Training:

 

* Comprehensive training on our new products and technology will be provided including vendor accreditation

 

* The challenges and opportunities faced at work will contribute to learning; a large amount of the training will be on the job

 

Knowledge and experience required:

* Ideal, Cisco CCNA / CCDA, Fortinet FCNSA (or equivalent)

* Desirable, Cisco CCNP / CCDP, Fortinet NSE4

*Consistent strong academic record

*Team player with excellent verbal and written communication skills

*Willingness to learn with a positive and professional attitude Desirable knowledge and

 

experience:

*Confident working in a customer facing role

*Presentation skills

*Technical design skills

* commercial awareness

 

*Any previous hands on technical experience is desirable

 

 

Our passion for technology and “doing the right thing” by our customers ensures we have the best staff and the best solutions in our market place for the benefit of our customers.

 

Benefits include holiday allowance, matched contribution pension scheme, car allowance and sales commission.

 

If you're interested please send me a PM or email me at [email protected]