Senior Systems Engineer - City of London

Salary: £120,000 - 130,000 per year

Requirements:

• We need someone already operating in a customer-facing technical role, ideally as a Senior Systems Engineer, Pre-Sales Consultant, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Technical Architect or similar.
• We need you to be comfortable being the technical lead in front of customers and able to explain complex infrastructure topics clearly.
• We need credible experience to challenge, advise and guide enterprise IT teams.
• We are looking for experience across backup, recovery, disaster recovery or data protection.
• We are looking for experience with storage infrastructure, secondary storage or backup appliances.
• We are looking for experience with ransomware resilience, immutability, air-gapped recovery or cyber recovery.
• We are looking for experience in enterprise infrastructure environments.
• We are looking for experience in pre-sales demos, workshops, technical discovery and solution design.
• We are looking for experience working with backup platforms such as Veeam, Commvault, Veritas, NetBackup, Rubrik, Cohesity or similar.
• We are looking for experience supporting partner/channel-led sales motions.
• We need strong pre-sales capability, solid infrastructure knowledge, and the confidence to own the technical side of a sales cycle.

Responsibilities:

• We work closely with the sales team as the technical lead through the sales cycle.
• We help customers understand their current backup, recovery and storage challenges.
• We shape the right solution for customers.
• We run technical workshops.
• We deliver demos.
• We support POCs.
• We position the value of our technology against major competitors in the market.
• We act as the trusted technical advisor for customers and partners across the region.
• We work alongside field sales to identify requirements, design solutions and move opportunities forward.
• We deliver technical presentations, demos, workshops and solution briefings.
• We support enterprise sales cycles from discovery through to close.
• We run solution design, sizing, architecture and technical validation.
• We support POCs, RFPs, RFIs and technical proposals.
• We work with customers around backup, recovery, ransomware resilience, storage and disaster recovery requirements.
• We help partners and resellers understand the technology and how to position it effectively.
• We build strong relationships with technical stakeholders, infrastructure teams, IT leaders and channel partners.
• We work closely with sales, post-sales and support teams to ensure a strong customer experience.

Technologies:

• Architect
• Support
• Veeam

More:

We are working with a high-growth, global data protection and cyber resilience vendor that is continuing to take serious market share across the backup, recovery and storage space. This is a Senior Systems Engineer / Pre-Sales Specialist opportunity covering London and South UK. The role is home-based but requires customer travel across London and additional travel across the South of the UK where required. Our package includes a 70/30 split, a £9,000 car allowance, stock, private medical, dental, life insurance and pension. This role would suit someone who is technically strong, commercially aware, comfortable in front of customers, and looking for a position where they can genuinely influence growth across a key UK region.

last updated 36 week of 2026