Solution Architect I

Job Summary

• This role will involve the RFP/RFI process as well as bespoke solutions in collaboration with Product teams/vendors, ensuring accurate verification, technical design vetting and overall cost and quality for the correct design and implementation.
• Coordination and oversight of Third-Party Providers for solution components. Work with them to create and freeze the Bill of material.
• Assess and understand the client’s business requirements, translating and recording these into formal network solution requirements.
• Responsible for the development of a convincing solution strategy regarding current, intermediate, and future mode of operations including migration approach
• Design and develop an end-to-end network solution design to meet the agreed network solution requirements while taking into consideration the economic parameters and competition.
• Participate in due diligence meetings with customer to gather more information on proposal/information request and environment.
• Successfully defend proposed techno-commercial solutions as part of the pre-sales process.
• Prepare
• Proposal documents including proposals, pricing sheet, solution presentations against RFP’s/RFI’s
• Contractual documents such as Statement of Work, Resource Unit Definitions etc.
• Understanding new data technologies/products and position them in relevant solution proposal.
• Keep himself/herself up to date with latest products features, licensing, architecture, and price.
• Defend end-to-end data solutions to customer/internal stakeholders.
• Working closely alongside other technology owners for optimal solution design in-line with the overall proposed solution.
• Work with OEM / Partners to ensure an appropriate solution is proposed during Presales Cycle

Key Responsibilities

• Data Center LAN technologies and platforms

• • • • Data center design and solution
      • Data Center LAN sizing and architecture
      • Cisco ACI SDN architecture

• Wide Area Network technologies

• WAN connectivity architecture and solution
• SD-WAN Solutions from cloud providers such as Viptela, Velo ,Silverpeak , Fortinet, Pala Alto etc.

• Datacenter Networking - SDN/ACI
• Campus LAN and SDA
• TCP/IP protocol suite
• Application protocols - HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, SNMP, SSL etc.
• Wireless Networking on platforms like Meraki, Cisco, Aruba
• Routing Protocols OSPF, EIGRP, BGP
• SwitchingL2 and L3 LAN switching technologies, VLANs, IEEE802.1Q Trunking, EtherChannel etc.
• DHCP and DNS
• Technical experience with designing, installing, configuring, and supporting security infrastructure technologies, network monitoring and management tools.

Skill Requirements

Knowledge of DC-LAN (Tiered designs, Leaf/Spine, VXLAN, DCI, SDN-ACI/NSX), WAN (SDWAN- Viptela/VeloCloud /Versa/Aruba), Campus LAN, Wireless, WLAN, Routing Protocols-BGP/OSPF, Switching /Tunneling communication (i.e., IPsec/VXLAN/GRE), Load Balancer -F5, Network Knowledge of Automation with Ansible/Python/Terraform, Microsoft Excel, Power Point, BOM/BOQ creation etc

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