Job Purpose:
As the Presales Manager Infrastructure Services, you will provide consultancy services by analysing customer requirements and providing quality and cost-effective solutions to produce high quality bid proposal to our customers. You will help the organization improve its profit potential and competitive standing through continuous reviews and enhancements on products and solutions trending.
Key Accountabilities
· Build and maintain a comprehensive and up-to-date bid materials and templates
· Produce high quality solution and bid proposal to increase the winning chances of bids
· Strategize and maintain standardization of products and solutions align to partnership strategy and business direction
· Be the brand custodian
· Team Manager
Job Responsibilities & Duties
· Provides infrastructure presale support to internal/external team during bidding.
· Gather bid/user requirement from tender specification; evaluates and recommends new/upgrade of software and hardware to meet the project/tender requirement.
· Provides infrastructure architecture design through industrial best practices and standards.
· Provides infrastructure consultancy to internal/external team.
· Profound understanding of the interdependencies of the services (application, system, network and database) and their failover capabilities in a n-Tier Data Center Environment
· Keeps abreast of technological advancement, emerging standards and new software or hardware solutions to continuously provide proven, innovative, cost-effective and quality solution.
· Ability to apply experiences and knowledge into Infrastructure solutions
· Must have good technical skills and know-how to assist in technical solution selling
· Ability leading and conducting Proof-Of-Concept (POC) and Demo activities to assist sales in closing deals
· Excellent communication and presentation skills (Tender presentation)
· Excellent documentation skills with fluent English for Technical write-up and proposal writing
· Provides technical guidance to junior colleagues in their work
· Any other duties as and when assigned.
Financial Accountabilities
· To meet the set target revenue and profit yearly set by the management committee
Minimum Education/Qualifications
· Degree in Computer Science or related IT discipline with minimally 8 years of relevant experiences in System Integrator environment
Minimum Years/Type of Experience
· An experience Team player.
· Generally, the candidate should have minimally 5 years of relevant working experiences in establish system Integrator organization with IPv6 domain experiences.
· He/She should have good domain knowledge in Government bid process and their domain solution.
· In addition, he/she should have the experiences and skillsets in the following Infrastructure domain areas:
o Networking: Preferably CCNP with in depth knowledge of market leading brands of Firewalls, Load Balancers, Routers and Switches, IPS/IDS, Global Traffic Manager, Wireless and IP Telephony in a n-Tier Data centre environment.
o Application: Familiar with middleware products and their role on multi-tier architecture, broad understanding of the ORACLE and IBM suits and RedHat JBoss group of Middle-wares.
o Databases: Sound knowledge and experiences with different types of database products, replication technologies and (eg. Oracle, IBM DB2, MSSQL, MySQLs) and their role on multi-tier architecture in a multi-sites environment.
o Server: Sound knowledge and experiences on server virtualization and able to calculate the compute resources sizing based on project requirements inputs; good understanding of architecture components for all tiers, storage, back up and server security. General understanding of the major hardware platforms (Oracle Sun, IBM, HP, DELL, etc).
o Storage: Sound knowledge and experiences on storage networking and data replication, sizing requirements, implementations and SAN / NAS replication as well as COLD / WARM DR storage architecture. Preferably having a good understanding of FCoE, FCIP concept and theory would be advantage.
o Security: Preferably CISSP certified and familiar with the industry trends in relation to security solutions and best practices such as infrastructure hardening, endpoints and SIEM solution, advance threats and mitigation know-how.
o Cloud: Good understanding of Cloud Computing solutions with experiences in design, implementation and operation of IaaS. PaaS platform for various type of hypervisors. Essential knowledge in Micro-services architecture (Kubernetes)
o Essential knowledge of Government Infrastructure Policies and Implementation knowledge in Government Commercial Cloud and Private Cloud
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