<hr> <p style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>Overview</strong></span></p> <hr> <p style="line-height: 1.1;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>*Hybrid-Remote Opportunity - Candidates must be geographically located in or near Dallas or Houston, Texas*</strong></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Senior Security Solutions Architect / Presales Engineer will support ePlus sales on complex, multi-vendor security and infrastructure opportunities. You will own the technical side of the deal: discovery, architecture, demos, configurations, proposals, and SOWs — working side-by-side with account teams from qualification through close.</span></p> <hr> <p style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.1;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>Your Impact</strong></span></p> <hr> <p style="line-height: 1.1;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>WHAT YOU’LL DO:</strong></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>Own the Technical Sale</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Act as the technical security lead and trusted advisor to ePlus account teams and customer stakeholders on your focus area</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Run discovery to capture business and technical requirements, then recommend the ePlus solution (hardware, software, and services)</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Design and document solution architecture, detailed configurations, and bills of materials (BOMs). </span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Build and deliver customer-facing presentations, proposals, and recommended-solution reviews.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Lead technical scoping sessions for Statements of Work on simple and complex installation, configuration and day-2/managed deals.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Author the technical sections of RFP / RFI / RFQ responses</span></li> </ul> <p style="line-height: 1.1;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong> </strong><strong>Win With the Sales Team</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Partner with AEs on account and opportunity planning — qualification, technical strategy, and competitive positioning</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Serve as SME for customer technical staff on design, configuration, implementation, and test approach</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Work as ePlus’s technical liaison with OEM field sales and in-house systems engineering teams (e.g. Cloud, Network, etc) in the region.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Support deal strategy when technical objections or customer-satisfaction issues threaten the recommended approach</span></li> </ul> <p style="line-height: 1.1;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong> </strong><strong>Stay Current and Raise the Bar</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0