Network Solutions Consultant

2 weeks ago

Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom MECS Communications Ltd Full time
Network Solutions Consultant

Location:
Hybrid working and Leeds area

Salary:

  • £60-70k + Bens

Environment:

  • Customer Facing, Design, Implementation, Cisco, CCNP, CCDP, CCIE MPLS, SD-Wan, Meraki, Fortinet, Security, VOIP, Layer2, Layer3, Core Networks, Firewalls, Datacentre

Our client, a leading provider of networking services is looking for an experienced Customer Facing Network Solutions Consultant to join their team.

The role requires a high level of interaction at a consultancy level with a variety of Enterprise customers as well as internal engineering and pre-sales teams, providing a broad range of Networking and Data Centre solutions.

Experience of designing networking solutions is essential, preferably gained in an enterprise environment.

You will be confident & professional when dealing face to face with customers on a technical level and will have the ability to both field customer discussions and present to technical audiences.

The role will involve working closely with projects and delivery teams to ensure that customer related projects are efficiently and seamlessly transitioned into the operational environment.



Key responsibilities:


To be the technical expert accountable for the customer solution design during the post-sales delivery phase of a customer solution, leading detailed design and integration meetings.

To support the Pre-sales function with the understanding of requirements and design of solutions, in particular supporting non-standard requests and making recommendations, especially when customer requirements are not a best fit for a standard service.

Responsibility to adapt the standard core services (defined by Core Engineering) to bespoke customer requirements. It is expected that this would normally be by design changes on the CE only.
Provide technical consultation for Pre-Sales, attending customer pre-sales meeting when required to capture detail, provide technical input.

To be the conduit between the presales and post sales teams to ensure an approved customer design is transitioned into delivery (particularly when requests are bespoke).

Define IP/VOIP, designs/test plans and execute.
Deliver full solution documentation and carry out handover into the relevant support areas.
Develop a deep technical and environmental understanding of the customer and their solution.
Maintenance of solution design documentation throughout a customer's lifecycle
To promote standardisation of change types within the customer solutions and lead on the development of supporting blueprints

Technical Skills:

  • Vendor-specific experience in Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, Fortinet,
  • In-depth understanding of routing protocols, internal and external BGP, OSPF, EIGRP & RIP.
  • Familiar with common Internet protocols, e.g. SNMP, SMTP, ICMP
  • Advanced knowledge of routers, switches, firewalls, Access Control Lists (ACLs)
  • Detailed knowledge of core network routers and infrastructure
  • Hands-on experience of IP / VOIP network design, implementation and troubleshooting
  • Hands-on Cisco exposure backed up with relevant Cisco accreditation
  • Detailed understanding of Layer2 and Layer3 MPLS VPNs from the Core to Customer Edge (P / PE / CE) including VRFs
  • A strong background in configuring firewalls for both Corporate and ISP services, to include: VPN Client and Site2Site IPSec Policies, Advanced DPI Policies for Internet Traffic and Centralised / Virtual Firewall Policies for VPN Customers.
  • Detailed understanding of all aspects of QoS (Traffic Shaping / Policing / Scheduling / Congestion Management and Avoidance). Specific experience with deploying QoS in a voice and / or converged environment would be advantageous (using both IPv4 and IPv6).
  • Previous work on designing and delivering resilient solutions.
  • Experience of delivering solutions on Cloud compute such as Azure/AWS.
  • Configuring and deploying VXLAN solutions
  • Experience in design, implementation and management of SDWAN solutions.
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