Job Description

Logicalis is an international multi-skilled solution provider providing digital enablement services to help customers harness digital technology and innovative services to deliver powerful business outcomes.

Our customers span across industries such as financial services, TMT (Telecommunications, Media and Technology), Education, Healthcare, Retail, Government, Manufacturing and Professional services. Our focus is to engage in the dynamics of our customers vertical markets and apply the skills of our employees in modernising key digital pillars, Data centres and Cloud services, Security and Network Infrastructure, Workspace communications and collaboration, Data and information strategies, and IT operations modernisation.

Logicalis Group has an annualised revenue of over $1.7 billion, from operations in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific and Africa. It is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, with revenues of over $4 billion.

As we continue to grow as a business, our people are our key differentiator with our competitors, and developing and retaining our talent is a key priority for all of our businesses. We will recommend that you watch this short video with input from our employees around the world.

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Job Summary:

We are currently looking for a Network Solutions Architect to join our Enterprise Networking Presales Team. The primary focus for this role is provide pre-sales technical consultation and develop reliable solutions to answer customer requirements and win bids/tenders. The key function for this role is primarily in pre-sales, tenders and bids stage and requires the candidate to have knowledge in both Cisco and Aruba technologies. Candidate must have the ability to conceptualize solution to customer and actively participate in the presales lifecycle including but not limited to developing bill of materials, generating proposals as well as conducting proof of concept (PoC). Qualified candidate is expected to present to clients the proposed solution and explain technical details and value proposition of the proposed solution. This role presents itself with considerable learning opportunities on the state-of-the art networking technologies.

Accountabilities:

• Provide Technical Consulting support to Sales team for Cisco / Aruba networking solutions
• Participating in requirement gathering to propose a suitable design that meet customer requirements
• Design a technically feasible solution to meet client requirement
• Participating in customer engagements and presales activities such as solutions meeting, presentation, RFP responses, BOM creation including professional services requirement.
• Conduct proof-of-concept to showcase proposed solution technical feasibility if required
• Proactively participate in maintaining internal knowledgebase sharing technical findings within the Team

The Individual and their Experience:

• Minimum 5 years experience as network engineer
• Minimum 2 years experience as network presales
• Must be at least CCNP certified, CCIE certified is a plus
• Must be familiar with Cisco Catalyst, Cisco Nexus, Cisco Routers (ASR, ISR, Catalyst 8K), network monitoring, and Cisco wireless solution
• Must be familiar with Aruba CX switch solution and Aruba wireless solution
• Mandatory to have experiences in designing campus network or data center network solutions
• Familiar with both Cisco and VMware software defined data center solutions
• Familiar with Cisco and any other non-Cisco software defined WAN solutions
• Familiar with F5 solutions such as LTM and GTM
• Familiar with Cisco ThousandEyes is a plus
• Must be familiar with MPLS L3VPN and VRF-lite design
• Familiar with use of automation tool and script such as python and ansible to conceptualize and create use cases is a plus
• Basic knowledge on network security solutions such as firewall and NAC
• Familiar with any of the public cloud technology (Azure, AWS, GCP) is a plus
• Self-motivated, and able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Ability to work independently and multi-tasking within a fast-evolving technical environment
• Good interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Flexible in approach and able to adapt to new situations and issues
• Good team player, problem solver and proactive attitude
• Good knowledge with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio
• Team player, highly spirited, sharing presales experience with peers
• Able to learn and adopt new skills based on the relevant training provided

Interested Application kindly please submit your application with your expected salary and notice period to be considered for the role.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
kindly please send your updated CV to sswong@ap.logicalis.com

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