Microsoft Pre-Sales Engineer

About the role

The Opportunity: We are seeking a Microsoft Pre-Sales Engineer to help customers translate business and technology needs into practical Microsoft-based solutions. This customer-facing role supports Technologent’s sales organization through technical discovery, solution architecture, customer presentations, and opportunity development. Working with Account Executives, Microsoft, technical teams, and delivery partners, the engineer develops recommendations across Microsoft cloud, infrastructure, productivity, identity, security, and management technologies, and supports opportunities from initial discovery through technical validation and close.

Location: Austin, TX

Employment Type: Full Time

This is an in-office position for employees who live within 35 miles of a Technologent office.

Technologent is a Global Provider of Edge-to-Edge℠ Information Technology Solutions and Services for Fortune 1000 and SMB companies. We offer a unique blend of business practices that are aligned to solve for top CIO concerns. Our core competencies focus on data center infrastructure, business continuity, data protection, service automation and orchestration, continuous intelligence, monitoring, connectivity, collaboration and cybersecurity. These practices are supported by our professional services, digital transformation services and financial services offerings. By providing custom solutions and services designed to fit your business needs, we enable your organization to be more agile, responsive and competitive. Technologent empowers your company to ascend to the next level in IT. Headquartered in Irvine, CA, Technologent has offices throughout the US and proudly serves clients around the world. When partnering with Technologent, organizations benefit from the highest caliber of professionals, committed to delivering exceptional business outcomes backed by unmatched service and support.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor and partner with Account Executives to identify customer requirements, technical challenges, business priorities, and Microsoft solution opportunities.
• Lead technical discovery workshops and assessments of customers’ Microsoft environments, architecture, licensing, security posture, cloud strategy, and infrastructure; translate findings into solution recommendations.
• Engage customer stakeholders from engineers and architects to IT leaders and executives; communicate technical designs and business value clearly.
• Support account planning and opportunity strategy, technical qualification, customer presentations, proposals, demonstrations, proof-of-concept activities, and responses to technical questions and objections.
• Design high-level solutions across Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, Defender, Sentinel, Windows and Windows Server, Active Directory and hybrid identity, Azure Virtual Desktop, Teams, collaboration, Copilot, and relevant AI capabilities.
• Account for hybrid and multi-cloud environments and integration with customer data centers, networking, security, storage, and third-party platforms; address scalability, resiliency, and operational needs.
• Develop licensing recommendations, bills of materials, solution components, and implementation assumptions; help define requirements