Key accountability
-Accountable for designing and deploying the Data Center Infrastructure.
-Leads discovery workshops with clients, inclusive of process mapping, requirement gathering, and early solution architecture.
-Understand customer business needs through excellent communication and relationship management
-Communicates the design/solution to the client from both a technical and a functional perspective.
-Conducts demos of the technology throughout the project to ensure the solution is meeting client requirements.
-Leads User Acceptance Testing with clients and trains testers as needed.
-Documents and shares business and technical knowledge for transfer to the client at project close.
-Partner with the Sales team and BD Directors to drive services sales within the practices and build a pipeline.

Skill and Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
-Relevant networking experience and certifications (CCIE/CCNP, CCDE/CCDP)
-Minimum 4 years experience in network engineering and architecture
-Customer relationship management experience, including adversarial techniques
-Excellent verbal and written communication, technical writing and diagramming skills
-Have an aptitude for leading customer conversations where required
-Knowledge of multi-vendor environments and the challenges therein
-Specific knowledge of Cisco, Dell EMC, Trend Micro, Fortinet, Vmware
-Advanced time, expectation and knowledge management skills
- Fluent English language communication skill

Preferred Qualifications:
-Deep knowledge of TCP, UDP and multicast
-Experience at other VARs or OEMs
-Knowledge of current-generation networking solution stack, including MC-LAG, 802.1X, EVPN, VXLAN, MACSec, SDN
-Knowledge of F5/A10 ADCs and related solution set
-Knowledge of Palo Alto, Fortinet or Cisco security products and related solution set
-Deep OEM knowledge in Cisco, Dell EMC
-Basic knowledge of non-network OEMs with networking solutions e.g. HPE ProCurve
-Experience with network security, e.g. firewalls, IDS/IPS, NAT
-Some knowledge of storage, compute and virtualization
-Knowledge of common networking requirements trees by customers