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Senior Network Solutions Architect (Remote)
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Design enterprise network solutions that address customer needs across data center, campus, and wide area networks. As a client-facing technical advisor, you will work with sales teams, customers, and technology partners from discovery through proposal and presentation, translating business goals into scalable, secure architectures. This role is remote and requires being based in the United States.
Responsibilities - Lead customer discovery sessions, technical workshops, and architecture discussions with engineering and executive stakeholders. - Design and present network solutions using Cisco and Juniper platforms, including routing, switching, VPN, and firewall technologies. - Collaborate with sales, delivery teams, and partners to develop proposals, bills of materials, statements of work, and client-ready presentations. - Produce high-level designs and solution documentation, and contribute to RFP responses and technical validation. - Advise customers on emerging approaches such as SD-WAN, EVPN-VXLAN, and network automation. - Build trusted client relationships and identify and escalate security risks.
Requirements - At least 7 years in enterprise networking, including 2 or more years in pre-sales or solution architecture with customers. - Deep experience with Cisco and Juniper infrastructure, including routing, switching, and firewalls. - Strong knowledge of Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols such as BGP, OSPF, STP, VLANs, and VRFs, as well as QoS, NAT, and ACLs. - Experience designing or advising on data center, WAN, or secure remote access solutions. - Ability to explain technical recommendations to both engineers and executives, and to create architecture diagrams and proposals. - Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Nice to have - CCNP or CCIE in Enterprise or Data Center, or JNCIP or JNCIE certification. - Familiarity with SD-WAN, EVPN-VXLAN, MPLS, AWS or Azure networking, network automation with Ansible or Python, or NAC, 802.1X, and RADIUS.
Benefits and work setup - Remote role for candidates based in the United States. - Listed benefits include unlimited paid time off, incentive compensation, employer-funded retirement contributions, employer-covered health insurance, paid parental leave, and an annual device reimbursement.