Hybrid Infrastructure Consultant in Chippenham

As a Pre Hybrid Infrastructure Consultant, you will work closely with Account Managers and the Professional Services/Managed Service team, heavily focused on Servers, Storage and Backup. You will work within the Pre-Sales team to uncover and solve customer business and technical problems. You will understand customer challenges at a strategic level and work with vendors/service partners to build end-to-end solutions that could encompass both on-premise infrastructure and cloud platforms.

As a member of the Technical Pre-Sales function of Business Solutions and Services, you will be pivotal to the overall growth of Bechtle UK’s Hybrid Infrastructure pillar. As a team, we are centred around understanding customer challenges and supporting organisations meet the challenges of modernising and scaling their infrastructure and cloud consumption to ensure optimal efficiency and performance in a secure manner. You will support pre-sales engagements through gaining an understanding of client requirements and in technical pre-sales discussions, ensuring the solution and/or service meets client expectations. You will have a good understanding of 3 Tier and 2 Tier, storage, backup and disaster recovery technologies, with a knowledge of hybrid cloud architectures and migration considerations.

Job Role Responsibilities

• Provide expert technical pre-sales support for opportunities involving servers, storage, DR and backup solution.
• Understand and gather customer requirements and offer complete & cost effective solution.
• Assess, design and present end-to-end hybrid infrastructure solutions wrapped with Bechtle Services.
• Creation of technical documentation as and when required, including HLD’s, SoW’s and proposals.
• Support Account Managers to deliver and hold strategic whiteboarding sessions with key customer stakeholders (virtual and F2F).
• Maintain good understanding of the competitive landscape and complementing solutions.
• Continuously learn and certify against key vendors within Hybrid Infrastructure such as Veeam, HPE, DELL, Microsoft Azure, VMWare, Nutanix etc.
• Create and maintain relationships with customers, vendors and surrounding service partners.
• Conduct in-house technology sharing to fellow peers.

Job Requirements

• Strong administration skills.
• Natural problem-solving ability.
• A strong understanding of data centre processes and procedures.
• Methodical thinking.
• Self-motivated and ambitious with a positive attitude.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to work within a fast-paced environment where work and fun are the key ingredients.
• Ability to build strong rapport with delivery partners.
• Ability to work as part of a team and display teamwork.

What we offer

• Hybrid Working (3 days in/2 days out).
• Location – close to the M4 with a modern, up to date living space and ample parking.
• Top of the range technology in office and for home working (laptops, screens, latest iPhone, etc).
• Subsidised health care/medical benefits.
• Annual Leave – 25-30* days plus B.H’s + optional 2 weeks unpaid. *Increases with time spent.
• Progression Plan – training & mentor programme.

Experience

• 3+ years’ experience in a similar role (i.e. PreSales/consultant/engineer).
• Exposure to infrastructure services and legacy transitions.
• Experience in recommending and designing solutions.
• Certifications in Azure, core infrastructure and virtualisation would be advantageous.
• Good understanding of our strategic vendors solutions and offerings.