Role overview

Solutions Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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Responsibilities

  • Ability to present and demo Alkira service to technical decision makers
  • Clearly articulate the Alkira value proposition and have a sound understanding of market, industry and competitive landscape
  • Partner with Alkira Account Managers to understand customer requirements and pain points. Assist with any technical asks from customers and help respond to RFP/RFIs
  • Lead and conduct Proof of Concepts
  • Assist customers with design and deployment based on best practices
  • Work with Alkira Product Management team to provide feedback on upcoming features from the customer's lens
  • Track and drive key customer features/asks with Alkira Product Management to implementation

Requirements

  • Minimum 5+ years of technology sales, preferably in a SaaS business environment
  • Strong networking fundamentals
  • Deep expertise in routing protocols and technologies, including BGP, OSPF, and static routing, with hands-on experience in route policy design, route redistribution, filtering, and traffic engineering
  • Understanding of network segmentation, VRFs, and multi-tenant network architectures
  • Network security expertise, including firewalls (e.g., Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Check Point), firewall policy design, service insertion/chaining, and Zero Trust principles
  • Hands-on experience with IPsec VPNs, encryption standards, NAT, and secure connectivity architectures
  • Good understanding of how enterprises extend cloud connectivity using a variety of Networking Technologies (i.e. Cloud On-Ramps, SD-WAN and IPsec)
  • Experience in large-scale enterprise network design and deployment, including data center, WAN, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments
  • Ability to troubleshoot complex network issues across routing, security, and cloud domains
  • Experience with network services such as DNS, DHCP, load balancing, and traffic inspection is a plus
  • Understanding of cloud networking constructs across AWS, Azure, and GCP (e.g., VPCs/VNets, Transit Gateway, Virtual WAN, Cloud Router, peering, and hybrid connectivity such as Direct Connect and ExpressRoute) are a plus
  • Strong passion for sales and creating long-lasting professional relationships
  • Relevant technical certifications (e.g., CCNP/CCIE, AWS Advanced Networking, Azure Network Engineer, PCNSE) are a plus
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • BA/BS/MS Degree are a plus
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