Network Consulting Systems Engineer - Pre Sales

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• 5-10 years of experience in a pre-sales, solutions consulting, or technical sales engineering role delivering complex networking and infrastructure solutions.
• 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 BoMs, SoWs, and LoEs.
• Excellent customer-facing communication and presentation skills, with confidence engaging 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 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 such as Network Automation, SDN, Segment Routing (SR/SRv6), Traffic Engineering, IP & Optical Convergence, and AI-driven Data Centre Networking is 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.
• A Bachelors degree in a STEM discipline is preferred, although equivalent industry experience is welcomed.
• Fluent English is essential, with additional European languages considered advantageous.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary technical advisor for networking opportunities, partnering closely with customers and internal sales teams throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Understand customer business drivers, capture technical requirements, and translate them into innovative, scalable networking solutions.
• Develop solution designs, create pre-sales documentation, and provide trusted technical guidance to help customers achieve their strategic objectives.
• Qualify opportunities, present solution designs, develop business cases, and support sales growth across Enterprise, Telecommunications, MSP, and emerging cloud environments.
• Work across multiple technology domains to support complex customer challenges and shape networking solutions.
• Engage in occasional travel across the UK and Europe to support customer engagements, workshops, and project activities.

Technologies:

• AI
• Cloud
• Cisco
• Support
• ITIL
• Network
• Security
• TOGAF

More:

We are a globally recognised technology solutions provider delivering advanced networking, cloud, automation, and digital infrastructure solutions to some of the worlds largest enterprises, telecommunications providers, and managed service organisations. We offer a competitive salary of £75k-£110k base, bonus, travel allowance, and benefits, along with hybrid working from our London office two days a week. We invest heavily in our people through training, certifications, and professional development, and we provide a collaborative, innovative environment with excellent long-term career progression. This role gives you exposure to leading-edge technologies, large-scale transformation programmes, and regular customer engagement across the UK and Europe.

last updated 33 week of 2026