Collaboration Engineer / Pre-Sales Professional

Elite Technical is seeking a Collaboration Engineer / Pre-Sales Professional to support our client in a combined sales support (pre/post) and professional services role. The job function is to provide pre-sales, design, and implementation services to both sales teams and customers, including professional services delivery of infrastructure and software in related technical focus area: (e.g. network, server, storage, DevOps, cloud) projects, support proposal development, provide technical training to junior engineers and lead internal initiatives when required.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provide technical services in the form of design, assessment, analysis, and troubleshooting, implementation, and documentation for related technology focus areas: (e.g. network, server, storage, DevOps, cloud, etc...)
- Provide pre-sales support to Sales, Bids/Proposals, and Business Development teams in the form of developing opportunity responses, Statements of Work, Level of Efforts (LOEs), and providing presentations to clients and serving as a technical expert in client meetings.
- Work with Project Management to serve as a project lead on technical deployments and customer engagements.
- Support sales, Business Development, and Engineering in a pre-sales capacity to help position our client through new sales, add-on sales, and lead generation.
- Assist with design and implementation of new solutions related to specified technical focus areas
- Develop additional technical and professional skills through a career-track curriculum and self-learning experiences.
- Provide support and leadership on internal initiatives such as process improvement, best practices, and research.
- Assist in identifying sales opportunities.
This position requires nationwide travel (up to 50%) to Government locations for client installations/meetings. When not traveling, this position will be hybrid (2 days onsite in Chantilly VA / 3 days WFH).
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Required Skills

- Must have a current US Government SECRET Security Clearance OR be able to successfully complete a U.S. Government administered investigation to obtain a Secret clearance.
- Seven (7) to ten (10) years of experience providing sales and implementation support to a reseller or solutions integrator capacity.
- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related technical discipline. Equivalent experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
- Willing and able to travel to customer sites for install efforts (estimated travel is up to 50%, nationwide)
- CCIE Certification is required (any field will suffice, Collaboration or Voice is highly preferred) -
- Possess a deep diverse understanding, experience, and skills within the Cisco line of products (A/V, UCC, VOIP, R&S, Security, etc...)
- Possess the ability to lead exploratory meetings with clients to drive a solution, a proposal, and assist in closing the deal. Must be able to work in a consultative manner to address client needs and develop a target solution.
- Possess demonstrated written and oral communications skills. Possess demonstrated successes in collaboration and partnering with clients.
- Possess a strong understanding of business fundamentals in accounting and finance, project management, and management.
- Solid understanding of IT processes including ITIL concepts.
- Experience working with project management methods and creating project assets such as high-level designs, detailed designs as-built documentation as well as testing, implementation, and roll-back plans.