Presales Technical Consultant
Technical Pre-Sales Consultant – Cyber Security & Defence
Southern UK / Home-Based with Customer Site Travel
£80,000 - £100,000 + Excellent Benefits
Applause IT are recruiting for a Technical Pre-Sales Consultant to join a specialist cyber security technology organisation delivering secure solutions across defence, government and critical national infrastructure environments.
This is an excellent opportunity for a technically credible consultant or solutions architect who enjoys customer engagement, solution design and working across secure cyber security programmes.
The successful candidate will work closely with customers, Government Contractor Primes, solution architects and internal engineering teams to support business development activities, shape secure technical solutions and contribute towards technically complex programmes.
The role:
- Engage directly with customers, technical stakeholders and solution architects
- Support technical pre-sales activities across cyber security and secure government programmes
- Capture customer business and technical requirements
- Contribute towards bids, proposals and solution architecture design
- Design high-level secure technical solutions and architectures
- Support interoperability, integration and secure technology projects
- Work closely with engineering and product teams to shape customer solutions
- Support information assurance and accreditation activities
- Deliver customer presentations, workshops and technical demonstrations
- Build strong customer and stakeholder relationships
The successful candidate should have:
- Previous experience within Technical Pre-Sales, Solution Architecture, Technical Consultancy or Cyber Security Consultancy roles
- Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Experience designing technical architectures and translating requirements into solutions
- Good understanding of Cyber Security and ICT technologies
- Knowledge of networking principles including VLANs, subnetting and secure infrastructure
- Experience with cloud technologies across public and private cloud environments
- Experience supporting bids, proposals and technical solution development
- Understanding of security standards and secure delivery environments
- Experience working within Agile environments
Highly desirable experience:
- MOD, defence or secure government sector experience
- SC Clearance or eligibility to obtain clearance
- Experience working with Government Contractor Primes
- Secure systems integration or cyber security architecture experience
What’s in it for you?
- Opportunity to work on secure defence and cyber security programmes
- Home-based flexibility with customer-facing project work
- Collaborative and technically focused environment
- Long-term career progression opportunities
- Exposure to cutting-edge secure technology projects
If this role sounds like a strong fit for your background, click APPLY NOW for immediate consideration.
Technical Pre-Sales Consultant – Cyber Security & Defence - Southern UK / Home-Based with Customer Site Travel - £80,000 - £100,000 + Excellent Benefits