Sr. Solutions Engineer (US West Coast)

About the role

Alkira is growing our Solutions Engineering team and looking for high energy, dedicated professionals who can help add new clients to our SaaS platform. This is a full-time position with great benefits.

Responsibilities

• Ability to present and demo Alkira service to technical decision makers
• Clearly articulate the Alkira value proposition and have a sound understanding of market, industry and competitive landscape
• Possess strong networking fundamentals and have deep expertise in routing protocols and technologies, including BGP, OSPF, and static routing, with hands-on experience in route policy design, route redistribution, filtering, and traffic engineering
• Understand network segmentation, VRFs, and multi-tenant network architectures
• Have network security expertise, including firewalls (e.g., Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Check Point), firewall policy design, service insertion/chaining, and Zero Trust principles
• Have hands-on experience with IPsec VPNs, encryption standards, NAT, and secure connectivity architectures
• Have a good understanding of how enterprises extend cloud connectivity using a variety of Networking Technologies (i.e. Cloud On-Ramps, SD-WAN and IPsec)
• Have experience in large-scale enterprise network design and deployment, including data center, WAN, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments
• Be able to troubleshoot complex network issues across routing, security, and cloud domains
• Have experience with network services such as DNS, DHCP, load balancing, and traffic inspection is a plus
• Have understanding of cloud networking constructs across AWS, Azure, and GCP (e.g., VPCs/VNets, Transit Gateway, Virtual WAN, Cloud Router, peering, and hybrid connectivity such as Direct Connect and ExpressRoute)
• Show strong passion for sales and creating long-lasting professional relationships
• Have relevant technical certifications (e.g., CCNP/CCIE, AWS Advanced Networking, Azure Network Engineer, PCNSE)
• Show excellent written and verbal communication skills

Requirements

• Minimum 8+ years of technology sales, preferably in a SaaS business environment
• Deep expertise in routing protocols and technologies, including BGP, OSPF, and static routing, with hands-on experience in route policy design, route redistribution, filtering, and traffic engineering
• Understanding of network segmentation, VRFs, and multi-tenant network architectures
• Network security expertise, including firewalls (e.g., Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Check Point), firewall policy design, service insertion/chaining, and Zero Trust principles
• Hands-on experience with IPsec VPNs, encryption standards, NAT, and secure connectivity architectures
• Good understanding of how enterprises extend cloud connectivity using a variety of Networking Technologies (i.e. Cloud On-Ramps, SD-WAN and IPsec)
• Experience in large-scale enterprise network design and deployment, including data center, WAN, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments
• Able to troubleshoot complex network issues across routing, security, and cloud domains
• Experience with network services such as DNS, DHCP, load balancing, and traffic inspection is a plus
• Understanding of cloud networking constructs across AWS, Azure, and GCP (e.g., VPCs/VNets, Transit Gateway, Virtual WAN, Cloud Router, peering, and hybrid connectivity such as Direct Connect and ExpressRoute)
• Show strong passion for sales and creating long-lasting professional relationships
• Show relevant technical certifications (e.g., CCNP/CCIE, AWS Advanced Networking, Azure Network Engineer, PCNSE)
• Show excellent written and verbal communication skills