Lead Consultant Prof Services ATC

This position requires client location/office presence a minimum of 1 day per week and is only located in the following cities: Alpharetta, GA; Bloomington, MN; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Kirkwood, MO; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA. No relocation is offered.

About the role

A senior-level consultant is often engaged as the technical primary project lead and architect. This seasoned consultant should have a track record of strong leadership, professional business acumen, polished oral and written communication, documentation, and presentation skills. The consultant will be well-rounded and adept at leading consultative engagements, assessing network environments, architecting designs for data center and network solutions, and creating meaningful, cohesive deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Follow an established, repeatable methodology, leverage appropriate templates, and actively participate in or facilitate status meetings, report status, and attend other required project meetings, including lessons learned meetings.
• Complete all administration, reports, and mandatory compliance training on time and as directed.
• Stay abreast of the latest marketing trends or chief concerns in the profession and participate in National Practice operations, process improvement, and training calls.
• Take accountability for professional development and career growth, as well as sharing knowledge with others.
• Collaborate, confer, and provide consulting services while managing project activities from client identification through final invoicing.
• Work on billable consulting service projects, demonstrating broad product knowledge within a specific discipline.
• Work independently on highly complex projects or as part of a team as assigned by the project leader.
• Handle technical responsibilities including problem identification, system architecture definition, hardware/software specification and/or design, implementation, testing, client training, and deployment.
• Lead all technical aspects of delivery, customer satisfaction, and accurate timekeeping for billing purposes on projects where the consultant is the only or lead technical resource.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge of principles, theories, and concepts in the applicable discipline, plus a high level of working knowledge in other related fields.
• Mentor or coach less experienced peers when needed.
• Create recommendations and implement new methods, techniques, and/or procedures.
• Use in-depth knowledge of networking to design and implement solutions for clients as part of a team of advanced infrastructure consultants and lead consultants.
• Fulfill billable consulting service projects and act as the subject matter expert within a specific discipline.
• Lead an engagement team consisting of other consultants or serve as the sole consulting resource on a project.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in the planning, design, and implementation of complex networks as part of a large enterprise network team, or within professional services or network integration environments.
• Experience in planning, design, and integration of secure network technology.
• A positive, energetic attitude and a serious desire to impact the company and the industry.
• Proven ability to develop Visio designs/diagrams and document professional, cohesive deliverables (sample deliverables will be requested).
• Verifiable strong ethics, trustworthiness, accountability, and reliability in being resourceful and self-directed while possessing both a positive leadership and collaborative teamwork style.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Industry certifications: CCIE, or proven equivalent experience with CCNA, CCNP, or CISSP.
• Very strong leadership, documentation, and project management skills.
• Ability to lead and coordinate complex networking engagements for very large environments in unfamiliar or nebulous settings.
• Ability to travel for engagement requirements.

Skills

• Thorough understanding of internetworking technologies and their deployment in complex, global networks.
• IPv4 and IPv6 experience.
• WAN and preferably iWAN expertise – transport and access planning, design, and deployment experience.
• Experience in analysis and selection of transport and access technologies including MPLS, Private Line, Hybrid WAN, Internet Complex, Ethernet, Internet VPN, DWDM, and wireless.
• MPLS integration including MPLS equipment & transport selection, QoS, MPLS IP routing, and MPLS migration planning/transition.
• LAN expertise – planning, design, and deployment experience.
• Experience in equipment selection, sizing, and detailed engineered design.
• Data center expertise including core, distribution, and segmentation.
• Wireless equipment selection, sizing, and detailed engineered design.
• Layer 2 vs Layer 3 segmentation.
• Virtualization using path segmentation (GRE, VRF-Lite, L3VPN’s, L2VPN’s).
• IP routing – planning, design, and deployment experience.
• IP routing protocols – OSPF, BGP, M-BGP, EIGRP capabilities and corresponding configurations.
• IP addressing – NAT, DNS/DHCP, address summarization as it impacts IP addressing and IP routing.
• Data center expertise – DC core network planning, design, and deployment experience.
• Experience in analysis, design, engineering, and deployment of DC core networks built on legacy architectures and fabric-enabled architectures.
• Experience with load balancing, DNS/DHCP, NAT, WANx, and proxies.
• Experience with separation and segmentation technologies (VLAN, VRF).
• Experience with network virtualization technologies.
• Experience with Cisco ACI SDN technologies.
• Strong knowledge of features, functionality, and configurations for Cisco Systems, Nortel, Juniper, Extreme Networks, etc.
• Firewall design, configuration, network segmentation, and implementation experience (e.g., Cisco ASA, CheckPoint, Fortinet).
• Understanding of load-balancing; F5 experience is a plus.
• Knowledge and experience with SDN, Juniper, Velocloud, VMware/Virtualization, and/or IoT is a significant plus.

Pay

Individual starting salary within the range of $120,200 - $216,200 may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training. Additionally, a yearly commission of up to $30,000 may be earned if all sales goals are met.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) plan.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Paid time off and holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays).
• Paid parental leave.
• Paid caregiver leave.
• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require (unprotected).
• Adoption reimbursement.
• Disability benefits (short term and long term).
• Life and accidental death insurance.
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident, hospital indemnity, group legal.
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
• Extensive employee wellness programs.
• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available), and AT&T phone.

Schedule

• Weekly hours: 40.
• Time type: Regular.