Network Solutions Architect

$120,000 - $170,000/Yr

ePlus - Plymouth, MA

posted 2 months ago

Full-time - Senior
Hybrid - Plymouth, MA
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As a Senior Solutions Architect at ePlus, you will play a pivotal role as the technical lead and sales engineer for our targeted product and service solutions. This position is hybrid, allowing for both remote work and collaboration in our Minneapolis office. Your primary responsibility will be to support the regional sales team in driving revenue growth and capturing opportunities within our customer account portfolio. You will collaborate closely with master architects, engineers, and consultants to understand client needs and develop sustainable IT roadmaps that align with their business objectives. In this role, you will be tasked with designing, configuring, and implementing security and data center networking infrastructure. You will work with advanced technologies, including software-defined data center networking solutions like Cisco ACI and traditional Cisco Nexus OS architectures. Your expertise in security infrastructure will be crucial, particularly in supporting edge, segmentation, SD-WAN, and VPN use cases with hardware such as Fortinet, Meraki, and Cisco. Your impact will be significant as you collaborate with customers to develop secure network architectures that meet their performance, reliability, and innovation needs. You will lead complex discussions to explain architecture builds and deployment plans, ensuring that security controls are integrated to minimize risk. Additionally, you will develop standards in partnership with various customer teams, share knowledge across teams, and create defense-in-depth security reference architectures that encompass all layers of security from host to application and data security.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with customers to develop secure network architectures that meet performance, reliability, and innovation needs.
  • Design, implement, and troubleshoot software-defined network (SDWAN) architectures such as Cisco ACI and traditional NX-OS architectures.
  • Develop secure network architectures and designs that minimize risk with appropriate security controls.
  • Lead complex technology-based discussions to explain architecture build and deployment plans and ongoing operational use.
  • Design and implement security-driven infrastructure solutions to support segmentation, including virtual NGFW, physical firewalls, and cloud-native security.
  • Develop standards in partnership with customer teams such as Risk and Compliance, Engineering, Infrastructure Services, and Application Development.
  • Lead initiatives designed to share knowledge across Customer and ePlus teams.
  • Collaborate with business and technology experts to develop defense-in-depth security reference architectures and security architecture standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical and/or Computer Engineering, or an Associate Degree.
  • At least one professional certification such as CCIE, CCNP, or CISSP.
  • 10-12 years of experience with Network Architecture and/or Engineering.
  • Hands-on experience with traditional Cisco NX-OS and related technologies is a must.
  • Hands-on experience with Cisco ACI and/or SD-WAN, including design and implementation of policy, scripting, and automation using REST APIs, Python, and other tools.
  • Experience providing networking and security infrastructure services for internal or external customers is essential.
  • Deep routing protocol experience, including BGP, EIGRP, and OSPF is required.
  • Familiarity with emerging fabric technologies such as MP-BGP (EVPN) with VXLAN and Cisco Software-Defined Access is beneficial.
  • Familiarity with non-Cisco data center switching solutions such as Arista is beneficial.
  • 5+ years of experience with Meraki (MX Firewall, SD-WAN, AutoVPN, Switching) is desirable.
  • 5+ years of experience with NGFW OEMs (Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Checkpoint, etc.) is desirable.
  • Knowledge of Carrier Neutral Facilities such as Equinix and the networking options provided by such services is beneficial.
  • Experience with Azure or AWS cloud platforms is beneficial.
  • Experience with enterprise architecture and working as part of a cross-functional team to implement solutions.

Nice-to-haves

  • Familiarity with emerging fabric technologies such as MP-BGP (EVPN) with VXLAN and Cisco Software-Defined Access.
  • Familiarity with non-Cisco data center switching solutions such as Arista.
  • Experience with Azure or AWS cloud platforms.

Benefits

  • 401(k) eligibility
  • Various paid time off benefits, including vacation, sick time, and personal leave
  • Commissions and discretionary bonuses may be included in the total compensation package
  • Full range of medical and financial benefits
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