Solution Architect (Secure Networking)
Life on the team
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic and rapidly expanding Consultancy Practice within Computacenter. The ideal candidate will have experience of working in a consultancy position with focus on traditional, advanced and emerging and network solutions. You'll work as part of a team or as the engagement lead with experience in multi-cloud networking, SASE, datacentre networking, network simplification, automation, observability and application networking and a strong understanding and alignment of security as it relates to the previous technology areas.
Computacenter is experiencing high growth across all our networking technology services and the position will suit a candidate that enjoys a fast moving and varied role, working into enterprise customers that require the definition and delivery of advanced technology solutions.
What you’ll do:
* Enterprise level projects - Architecture guidance, roadmaps, advisory
* Pre-Sales - requirements gathering, solution definition, technical costing, governance
* Attend Customer opportunity / strategy meetings to understand and articulate business and technical strategy for the company and customer.
* Provide qualification of designs or opportunities
* Work closely with Vendors / Partners to keep up to date with current and future technologies, products and strategies to manage the ‘cradle to grave’ solution provisions cycle
* Act as a Design Authority for nominated key accounts
* Act as Technical Authority and lead for complex, enterprise-scale, mission-critical customer projects
* Work closely with peers and SMEs to create solutions for Computacenter customers
What you’ll need:
* Network modernisation strategy experience
* SD-WAN architectures experience
* Network automation and orchestration
* Security compliance integration and performance optimisation experience
* Proven expertise in multi-cloud architectures and technologies, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) implementations, automation, and network transformation
* Experience working with multi-cloud environments (including public cloud providers, cloud brokers and multi-cloud connectivity) and designing network solutions spanning multiple cloud providers.
* Strong understanding of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) principles and architectures.
* Proficiency in network automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Python scripting.
* Experience with network transformation initiatives, including legacy network modernization and migration to cloud-native architectures.
Relevant certifications:
* Cisco Certified CCNP or CCIE.
* Palo Alto Certified PCSNE
* Fortinet Certified FNCSE
* Zscaler ZTCA
* AWS Certified Solutions Architect
* Azure Solutions Architect Expert
* F5 Distributed Cloud
Certification in network automation tools or programming languages:
* Ansible
* Terraform
* Python
* GitHub