Lead Network Engineer

Day-2-Day:

• Participate in technical and design discussions with IT executives to help enterprises speed their adoption of SDWAN / SASE technologies and practices
• Act as a trusted advisor to ascertain client requirements and lead implementation discussions to ensure the appropriate solutions proposed are designed successfully.
• In collaboration with the client engagement teams, assist with running customer network transformation workshops.
• Field technical questions and educate customers on the value proposition regarding Companies Managed and Professional and Managed Network Consulting Services including assessment, consulting, migration and optimization services.
• Technical contribution to Proposals and Responses to RFI/RFP/RFTs.
• Support various marketing activities, which may include speaking at industry conferences, presenting webinars, and engaging in community events.
• Fluency in implementing and designing complex SD WAN and MPLS solutions.
• Do a knowledge transfer session to know how to deploy tool for customer, gather data.
• Wants someone who is a senior engineer to take a Method of procedure from architects Example: Have two firewalls in parallel and wants to simplify
• Wants someone to come in and take steps to configure and trouble shoot and be able to roll it back if needed
  

Must haves:

• BGP & OSPF Routing protocols need to be proficient in Cisco
• Need to have experience setting up VPN connection from router to aggregator connection.
• SD Wan EXP Could be any type of SD but this is a must have.
• 5+ years of implementation experience
• Need to be comfortable talking to customers they need previous exposure as customer facing exp is crucial
• Bachelor of Science Technical degree or equivalent exp (Computer Science or Engineering background preferred) Or CCNA + CCNP Certifications will cancel out degree requirement
• Flexibility and ability to plan, prioritize, and execute multiple tasks in a fast paced environment.
• Self motivated, well-organized, and detail oriented
• Onshore-Fully remote, can sit in any time zone.
  

Pluses:

• Cisco Meraki would be a plus since their team does not have experience with that.
• Monitoring Tools, such as looking at network utilization reports.
• Any Automation exp would need script experience such as python
  

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