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POSITION INFO:
Introduction
Our client, an MSP based in Rivonia, is currently seeking a highly skilled and experienced Presales Engineer to join their team. As a Presales Engineer, you will be responsible for assisting the company maintain its position a leading MSP by designing technology solutions aligned with solving the customers business problems and the technical standards defined by the company. At this MSP, Presales Engineers are self-motivated individuals with strong interest in how technology can drive business efficiencies. As a Presales Engineer, you will be responsible for assessing technology environments and building out new solutions to mitigate any failures and ensure business continuity.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Engaging with field sales to understand the customers business problems in the absence of the appropriate technology.
- Assess new and existing technology environments.
- Document audit findings
- Design solution options to mitigate the technical cause and business problem.
- Enable sales with technical advice and weekly product training.
Desired Experience & Qualification
Desired Skills
Thorough understanding of server architecture
- Virtualisation and hypervisors
- Hyper-V is a must.
- VMWare would be an added bonus.
Designing and building server systems and being able to determine what type of compute is the best fit for the client needs.
- Physical Servers
- Private Cloud
- Public Cloud
- Cloud computing in Azure and AWS are advantageous.
Thorough understanding of networking
- Switching and wireless and connectivity options
- Design a switched network and understand wireless fundamentals.
- Being able to design MPLS or SDWAN Wide Area networks is a must
Thorough understanding of security technologies.
- firewalling, VPN, web filtering, intrusion protection
- EDR/MDR, mail filtering and secure access
- Be able to explain the concepts of zero trust networking.
- Fortinet knowledge advantageous
Thorough understanding of concepts relating to VoIP
- SIP, Zero Touch Provisioning, call routing and IVR.
Thorough understanding of backup technologies and the different methods of backups
- Understanding of Disaster Recovery and high availability necessary
- Veeam and Cove Data Protection experience advantageous.
Thorough understanding of Microsoft 365
- Extensive knowledge designing M365 tenants and deployments.
- Exchange Online, teams, SharePoint are a must.
- Azure and related technologies are advantageous.
Essential Requirements
- Matric Certificate
- BCom in Information Systems or Equivalent
- BSc Computer Science or Equivalent
- 5 years plus in a similar position Advantageous Knowledge and Experience
- Experience at an MSP would be advantageous
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