Sr. Systems Engineer - Service Providers

About the role

We are seeking passionate, entrepreneurial, and tech-savvy Sr. Systems Engineers to assist our customers and partners in evaluating, adopting, and expanding our technology.

Job responsibilities

• Provide pre-sales technical support and technical expertise to our customers and partners with the goal of achieving sales targets.
• Establish a trusted advisory role with strategic customers and partners (CIO, CISO).
• Enable and/or update partner networks on product evolution.
• Perform workshops with prospects or customers on product evaluations and conduct demonstrations.
• Carry out hands-on tests to validate customer proof-of-concept setups, network designs, and network deployments using new products and features.
• Respond to Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP).
• Provide market and product feedback to product management and back-office.
• Author whitepapers, knowledge base articles, and other customer/partner-facing content.

Essential Skills

• Experience in planning and designing or operating service provider or large enterprise WAN/LAN networks.
• Knowledge on solutions involving Cloud security with FWaaS, DLP, CASB, RBI, and malware prevention.
• Understanding of networking and security architectures within the SASE framework.
• In-depth understanding of TCP/IP protocol stack and operation.
• Knowledge on WAN technologies and protocols like MPLS, MPLS-based VPNs, BGP, OSPF, QoS, NAT, and multicast.
• Experience in architecting and/or managing large-scale, high-performing, and resilient enterprise networking and security solutions.
• Knowledge on Linux administration.

Desired Skills

• Hands-on experience in public and private cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, OpenStack, and VMware.
• Shell scripting and Python scripting knowledge.
• Knowledge on best practices architectures for SaaS applications.
• Great analytical thinking.
• Ability to think full stack when solving problems.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Excellent hands-on skills in deploying and troubleshooting complex networks.
• Willingness to assist customers, peers, and other team members at all times.

Our Benefits

Versa Networks is a small but rapidly growing organization, built by experienced professionals in the networking industry. We offer a pragmatic team with a healthy work-life balance and competitive compensation packages including pre-IPO equity. Additionally, we provide a quality of life benefit in an inspiring environment with skilled and passionate colleagues. Our company culture fosters a great work atmosphere and a fun environment for both work and play.