Ideal candidate must have design experience with the following -

Knowledge of different industry verticals, architectures and compliance requirements Routing and switching infrastructure deployment models (physical and VNF) Wireless (wifi 5, wifi6) and private network IoT/5G deployment architectures SD-WAN, SASE, SD-ACCESS, ACI, NSX, WAN Optimizer, Load Balancers architecture and design High speed, Low latency network architecture Network Automation (AI/ML based auto-ticket resolution) and Monitoring Tools,  -  NPM, APM, IPAM, DDI Virtualization and Automation - Understanding of Software Defined Network, Network Function Virtualization and intelligent WAN technologies SD-WAN-as-a-service model offerings. Good understanding of market leaders in SASE and Secure SD-WAN service providers IT Service Management – Understanding of ITIL best practices, Identity and Access Management – Design and implementation of Cisco ACS, Cisco ISE, BYoD, Network Admission control, SDP Intent Based Self-Healing Networks Azure, GCP, AWS Network architecture IP communications protocols, Enterprise Architectures, Video architectures Vertical industry experience in helping customers understand how technology and Architecture can solve their relevant business problems.

 

 

The Responsibilities includes -

Work with customers and understand their setup, and analyze their deployments and come up with areas of weakness, enhancements Helps customers think through and define their IT strategy and resulting requirements as related to the industry challenges. Create use cases and solution architecture design for customer configuration/needs Can create conceptual and logical architectures for the solution. The solution might include infrastructure-code, AI enabled network solutions and services Leads an effort whose goals are to craft and deliver business value justification, business requirements to technology architecture mapping, solution architecture & integration, and organizational change management recommendations. Individual builds plans and coordinates implementations of the solution across cross-technology (SDDC, SDN/DC/Collab) virtual delivery teams. Able to articulate this vision across Executives and senior Enterprise/Solution Architects. Create repeatable service offerings for specific domains such as SDN / Network Function Virtualization, security and applications Work with Sales Managers to engage in pre-sales activity and propose creative ideas and solutions to customer needs Solution sizing, pricing, writing proposal documents, creating transition pans, leading defense presentations and optimizing proposals for BAFO Deliver technical and services workshop for Network offerings Work with other solution teams to create validated designs and other reference architectures Create technical and solution content

 

Candidate Profile, Skills and Qualifications -

10-15 years of solution architect experience in Architecture, Design, Build, Operate and Optimize Preferably a BS, MS degree in EE, computer science CCIE is a plus Ability to work closely with customers Strong verbal, written and presentation skills. Open and engaging collaboration style Ability to take initiative in virtual team efforts and influence technical and architectural directions Demonstrated technical ability when working with complex component(s) or whole product/platform Ability to work independently with very little supervision