Network Technology Pre Sales Consultant

Permanent Position: Network Technology Pre-Sales Consultant
Location: Hybrid - 2 days a week in London office (M4 Corridor)
Salary: £60-£90k base + Bonus + Travel Allowance + Benefits
Reference: 20699

About the Opportunity
Our client is a globally recognised technology solutions provider delivering advanced networking, cloud, automation and digital infrastructure solutions to some of the world's largest enterprises, telecommunications providers and managed service organisations.
With a strong culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous learning, they invest heavily in their people, technology partnerships and professional development. You'll be joining a high-performing technical team where you'll work on cutting-edge technologies, solve complex customer challenges and help shape the next generation of networking solutions.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a business with a strong reputation for technical excellence, outstanding employee development and long-term career progression.

The Role
As a Network Technology Pre-Sales Consultant, you will act as the primary technical advisor for networking opportunities, partnering closely with customers and internal sales teams throughout the solution life cycle.
You'll be responsible for understanding customer business drivers, capturing technical requirements and translating these into innovative, scalable networking solutions. Working across multiple technology domains, you'll develop solution designs, create pre-sales documentation and provide trusted technical guidance that helps customers achieve their strategic objectives.
You'll play a key role in qualifying opportunities, presenting solution designs, developing business cases and supporting sales growth across Enterprise, Telecommunications, Managed Service Provider (MSP) and emerging cloud environments.

Key Skills & Experience
The successful candidate will bring a combination of strong networking expertise, commercial awareness and consultative pre-sales experience, including:

• 5-10 years' experience in a pre-sales, solutions consulting or technical sales engineering role delivering complex networking and infrastructure solutions.
• A proven ability to identify customer business challenges and translate them into innovative technology solutions through a consultative approach.
• Strong experience gathering customer requirements and producing solution designs, technical documentation and commercial pre-sales artefacts, including Bills of Materials (BoMs), Statements of Work (SoWs) and Levels of Effort (LoEs).
• Excellent customer-facing communication and presentation skills, with the confidence to engage technical specialists, project teams and senior business stakeholders.
• Strong networking knowledge across at least one leading vendor such as Cisco, Juniper, Arista or Ciena.
• Experience designing solutions across Enterprise, Service Provider or Data Centre networking environments.
• Good understanding of optical networking technologies, including Data Centre Interconnect (DCI) and DWDM transport solutions.
• Knowledge of secure-by-design networking principles, including resilient Data Centre-to-Data Centre connectivity across trusted and untrusted environments.
• Broad technical understanding of cloud infrastructure technologies including compute, storage, networking, virtualisation, containers and enterprise security.
• Experience delivering both greenfield deployments and brownfield transformation or migration programmes.
• Knowledge of modern networking technologies including Network Automation, SDN, Segment Routing (SR/SRv6), Traffic Engineering, IP & Optical Convergence and AI-driven Data Centre Networking would be highly advantageous.
• Familiarity with recognised industry frameworks such as ITIL, TOGAF, TM Forum or eTOM.
• Relevant industry certifications are desirable, although equivalent commercial experience will also be considered.
• Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline is preferred, although equivalent industry experience is welcomed.
• Fluent English is essential, with additional European languages considered advantageous.

What's on Offer

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• Opportunity to work on large-scale networking and digital transformation programmes.
• Exposure to leading-edge technologies across networking, automation, cloud and AI.
• Ongoing investment in training, certifications and professional development.
• Collaborative, innovative working environment with excellent long-term career progression.
• Hybrid working and regular engagement with customers across the UK and Europe.

Travel
The role will involve occasional travel across the UK and Europe to support customer engagements, workshops and project activities.

Networking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.