Pre Sales Technical Consutlant - (US-TX-Houston - 77299)

Compensation: $90 - $125K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: prehust
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Systems Engineer; Pre-Sales Consultant
Location: Houston, TX.
Reports to: Director of Engineering Services
Travel: up to 40%
Citizenship: Must be a US Citizen
Other: Must be able to lift 50 lbs

Position Description
Responsibilities for this position include:

• Provide Pre-sales Technical Sales Support to Account Executives for hardware and software based solutions for our product offerings primarily from Microsoft, UNIX, Network Appliance, VMware, Sun Microsystems, Symantec Software and other primary vendors
 Primary role for gathering technical information to develop provided solutions
 Gather pre-sales site information and estimate project scope for installation/integration, both in conjunction with sales force members for both systems and service solutions
• Provide implementation services of hardware and software based solutions for product offerings primarily from Network Appliance, VMware, Sun Microsystems, Symantec Software and other primary vendors (Estimated 30%)
• Attend and acquire, on an ongoing basis, training sessions and manufacturer certifications (Estimated 10%)
• Conduct all Consulting Services related business in an appropriate and customer-focused manner
• Track, organize, and conduct projects and assignments efficiently
• Develop and maintain relationships with customer and vendor technical contacts

Experience Required
• Minimum of 8 years in hardware technology and Unix platforms (preferred Solaris)
• Minimum of 4 years in a Consultant, Sales Engineer, or Post Sales Engineer


Skills Required
• Must have strong verbal and presentation skills, with the ability to tailor dialogue to targeted audience
• Must have strong oral and written communication skills, including experience in writing documentation, assisting with SOW development, and written correspondence with customers and vendors
• Must be detail-oriented
• Must have the ability to estimate scope and effort accurately in order to prepare level of effort (LOE) documents
• Strong interpersonal skills are required to for effective communication with internal team members, customers and vendors
• Strong understanding and experience with Network Appliance’s storage products
• Strong working knowledge and experience with VMware, Microsoft, Linux and Solaris operating systems
• Strong knowledge and experience with storage solutions from the major storage vendors (HDS, EMC, IBM, LSI)
• Extensive knowledge of SAN architecture and implementation, iSCSI, and NAS technologies (Brocade)
• Knowledge of Backup and Recovery technologies, including tape and disk products (NetBackup, TSM)
• Technical knowledge and understanding of methodologies for achieving High Availability, including clustering; working knowledge of a UNIX-based clustering product is a plus (VCS, Sun Cluster, HACMP)
• Working knowledge of Enterprise security practices and products

Education & Certification Required
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, CIS or MIS, or Electrical Engineering
• Current vendor certifications are a plus