Senior Network Solutions Architect (Remote)
About The Position
The Senior Network Solutions Architect is a pre-sales, client-facing technology professional who helps enterprise customers modernize and optimize their network infrastructure. The role partners with sales teams, customers, and technology partners to translate business challenges into innovative, scalable, and secure technical architectures that support business outcomes. The architect serves as a trusted technical advisor throughout the sales process, from discovery and solution workshops through proposals and executive-level recommendations. The position provides technical leadership across data center, campus, and WAN environments, designing solutions using Cisco and Juniper technologies. It requires the ability to work with engineering and executive audiences, collaborate with account managers and delivery teams, and create client-ready architecture documentation and presentations. The successful candidate stays current with emerging networking technologies and helps customers evaluate and apply them. The role must be based in the United States.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience in enterprise networking roles, including at least 2 years in a customer-facing pre-sales or solution architect capacity.
- Deep technical expertise in Cisco and Juniper network infrastructure, including routing, switching, and firewalls.
- Strong understanding of Layer 2/3 protocols, including BGP, OSPF, STP, VLANs, and VRFs, as well as QoS, NAT, and ACLs.
- Ability to lead technical discussions with both engineers and executives.
- Experience designing or consulting on data center, WAN, or secure remote access solutions.
- Skill in creating architecture diagrams, proposal documentation, and technical presentations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Must be based in the United States.
Nice To Haves
- CCNP or CCIE certification in Enterprise or Data Center; JNCIP or JNCIE certifications are strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with SD-WAN, EVPN-VXLAN, MPLS, or cloud networking (AWS/Azure).
- Experience with network automation tools or languages such as Ansible or Python.
- Exposure to NAC, 802.1X, RADIUS, and hybrid networking environments.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical lead during pre-sales engagements, aligning network architectures with client goals across data center, campus, and WAN environments.
- Design and present solutions using Cisco Catalyst, Nexus, ISR/ASR and Juniper MX, EX, and SRX platforms to meet customer requirements and business objectives.
- Lead whiteboarding sessions, technical workshops, and customer discovery meetings to define use cases, success criteria, and architectural recommendations.
- Collaborate with account managers, delivery teams, and OEM partners to develop proposals, bills of materials (BOMs), and statements of work (SOWs).
- Translate business needs into scalable, secure network architectures using routing, switching, VPN, and firewall technologies.
- Develop high-quality documentation, including high-level designs (HLDs), solution briefs, and client-ready presentations.
- Stay current on emerging technologies such as SD-WAN, EVPN-VXLAN, and automation, and communicate their value in customer environments.
- Participate in RFP responses, competitive analyses, and technical validation of proposed architectures.
- Build long-term technical relationships and act as a trusted advisor to enterprise clients.
- Complete ongoing security awareness training and comply with company policies.
- Identify and escalate security risks to the appropriate Executive Leadership Team member and contribute to remediation efforts.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
- Incentive compensation plans for all employees.
- Company-funded 401(k) contributions.
- Zero-cost employer-covered health insurance.
- Annual BYOD reimbursement of up to $500.
- Paid parental leave.
- One-to-one coaching, performance reviews, and a consistent feedback loop.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
