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. 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
Working 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. Leveraging this experience to deliver:
* Enterprise level projects:
* Advisory services
* Requirements gathering
* Technical costings
* Attend Customer opportunity / strategy meetings to understand and articulate business and technical strategy for the company and customer.
* Provide qualification of designs or opportunities and produce high-level architecture/design documentation
* 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, throughout the project lifecycle – Campaign/Advisory, Pre-sales, Planning & Initiation and Delivery
* Work closely with peers and SMEs to create solutions for Computacenter customers
* Support colleagues in Solutions Sales to identify and create new propositions and services to take to market
* Research technology and deliver associated white papers to promote Computacenter’s offerings.
* Maintain high level of industry awareness through training and self-development
* Perform governance and due diligence around proposed solutions, ensuring they meet the documented customer requirements
What you’ll need
* Demonstrable expertise in assessing, defining and supporting Enterprise level network transformation projects
* Network modernisation strategies
* Cloud migration and integration
* SD-WAN architectures
* Network automation and orchestration
* Security compliance and integration
* Performance optimisation
* Application visibility and optimisation
* 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
Experience in network automation tools or programming languages:
* Ansible
* Terraform
* Python
* Github