• 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 • Mandatory design experience required in at least two of the following SDN technologies: • SD-WAN (Fortinet, Versa, Cisco, Palo Alto, Cato, Viptela, Silverpeak, VeloCloud) • SASE (Fortinet, Versa, Palo Alto, HPE, Cisco, Juniper) • SD-ACCESS (Cisco, Juniper, Zscaler) • ACI (Cisco ACI) • NSX, WAN Optimizer, Load Balancers architecture and design • Work with Sales/Account managers to engage in pre-sales activity and propose creative ideas and solutions to customer needs • 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/Account 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