Presales Lead
Role Overview
The Presales Lead supports revenue growth in Cloud Managed Services by developing tailored solution architectures for enterprise and mid-size clients.
The role builds strategic relationships with IT decision-makers and collaborates with sales and delivery teams.
The stated location is Riyadh, KSA.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Presales Lead supports revenue growth in Cloud Managed Services by developing tailored solution architectures for enterprise and mid-size clients.
The role builds strategic relationships with IT decision-makers and collaborates with sales and delivery teams.
The stated location is Riyadh, KSA.
Main responsibilities
- Gather and capture business requirements with customers and the sales team.
- Analyze customers’ current and target infrastructure, application, and security requirements on cloud.
- Translate RFP/RFI documents into business requirements and technical responses.
- Design optimized solutions using Azure, AWS, or GCP based on customer specifications.
- Conduct customer presentations and whiteboarding sessions to showcase company capabilities.
- Develop proof-of-concept solutions and comprehensive cloud migration plans.
- Participate in public events and produce technical content such as whitepapers, articles, and blogs.
- Deliver internal training and assist delivery teams with knowledge transition.
Key requirements
- Proven experience with at least one of Azure, AWS, or GCP is mandatory.
- Requires 7–15 years of IT/datacenter experience, including at least 5 years focused on cloud infrastructure or applications as an SME or architect.
- Requires a relevant cloud technology certification at Expert or Associate level.
- Requires expertise architecting complex enterprise-grade solutions for on-premise and cloud environments.
- Requires experience with either IaaS cloud infrastructure solutions or cloud applications, including PaaS, serverless, containers, or CI/CD.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of cloud security principles and experience with Windows/Linux operating systems and Active Directory integration.
- Experience designing high availability and disaster recovery architectures.
- Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, or ARM Templates.
- Strong client-facing skills, ability to influence outcomes, and capability to design for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
- Collaborative approach to working with project teams.
- Willingness to travel locally and globally, approximately 30–40% as required.
Tools and methodologies
- Azure, AWS, and GCP are listed as public cloud platforms.
- Terraform, Ansible, and ARM Templates are listed as cloud automation tools.
- The role involves cloud and security technologies.
Location and travel
- The role is listed in Riyadh, KSA.
- The description notes willingness to travel locally and globally, approximately 30–40% as required.
Team structure
The role collaborates with delivery and sales teams.
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