PreSales Lead Central Region

Inbox Business Technologies is seeking an experienced PreSales Lead Central Region to lead Storage and Virtualization presales engagements and support business growth across the Central region. The role will act as a key bridge between Sales OEMs Solution Design and Delivery teams with ownership of technical solutioning RFP responses BOQ/BOM validation OEM compliance customer demonstrations and presales coordination.

The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on expertise across enterprise storage virtualization and data center technologies combined with the stakeholder management and communication capabilities required to lead complex enterprise and FSI engagements.

Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Lahore

• Lead Storage and Virtualization presales engagements in support of the Unit Head Sales Central.
• Lead technical preparation mapping and coordination for RFPs and customer requirements.
• Own the preparation and submission of technical proposals in response to customer RFPs.
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of proposed solution designs BOQs and BOMs against customer requirements.
• Ensure completeness and validity of OEM technical compliances.
• Act as the primary Presales POC for coordination with relevant OEMs and technology partners.
• Design and dimension enterprise storage and virtualization solutions based on customer requirements.
• Prepare and lead technical demonstrations and solution presentations for customer technical teams.
• Coordinate with implementation and sustenance teams on SOW solution design BOQ/BOM and technical requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Work closely with Sales Design and Delivery teams to ensure proposed solutions are technically viable and aligned with customer requirements.
• Support solution discussions and technical engagements with enterprise and FSI customers.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering Electronics Engineering or equivalent.
• Professional Level 2 or above Storage and/or Virtualization certifications; networking certifications
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in enterprise infrastructure solution design presales storage virtualization or related technologies.
• Technical proficiency with storage solutions from at least one major OEM such as Huawei Dell EMC IBM HPE NetApp or equivalent.
• Strong ability to dimension design and commission enterprise storage solutions particularly for enterprise and FSI environments.
• Experience planning and executing online and offline data migrations across heterogeneous storage environments.
• Strong understanding of block file object and unified storage architectures.
• Experience designing and implementing synchronous and asynchronous storage replication solutions.
• Knowledge of FC and iSCSI-based storage networks.
• Strong understanding of storage features including snapshots clones deduplication and related technologies.
• Ability to design and implement data center virtualization solutions using at least one major KVM/ESXi-based platform such as VMware RHV OLVM Huawei FusionSphere H3C CAS or equivalent.
• Understanding of V2V and P2V migrations VM templates snapshots VM networking DRS fencing and cloud-init.
• Understanding of API integrations between virtualization management platforms and native or third-party backup solutions.
• Good understanding of PCI passthrough SR-IOV GPU virtualization and direct-LUN/shared-disk mechanisms and limitations.
• Strong understanding of L2/L3 networking network topologies firewall policies and L3/L4/L7 load balancing.
• Strong stakeholder management executive communication negotiation and cross-functional coordination skills.

• Proficiency with Linux and Bash scripting.
• Implementation experience with HCI solutions.
• Familiarity with Ceph SDS and ZFS.
• Experience with enterprise backup solutions such as Veeam Veritas or equivalent.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and OpenStack.
• Understanding of hyperscaler cloud offerings.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive fair consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion sex gender identity or expression national origin age disability genetic information or pregnancy.

At Inbox Business Technologies we celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive space where every team member is valued. We strongly encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply and contribute their unique ideas experiences and voices to a company that believes in equality and embraces new ways of thinking.