AddressLocation: UK - Mobile England | Job-ID: 207498 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: IT Consulting
Solution Architect (Secure Networking)
Life on the team
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic and rapidly expanding Consultancy Practice within Computacenter. The ideal candidate will have experience of working in a consultancy position with focus on traditional, advanced and emerging and network solutions.
Computacenter is experiencing high growth across all our networking technology services and the position will suit a candidate that enjoys a fast moving and varied role, working into enterprise customers that require the definition and delivery of advanced technology solutions.
Whilst the candidate will be expected to demonstrate the right level of technical expertise and certification in the disciplines required, Computacenter prides itself on continuous development of our employees. By joining the team, the candidate will benefit from involvement in highly complex interesting projects but will also receive ongoing targeted training that will advance their technical knowledge and career progression.
What you'll do
Working as part of a team or as the engagement lead with experience in multicloud networking, SASE, datacentre networking, network simplification, automation, observability and application networking and a strong understanding and alignment of security as it relates to the previous technology areas. Leveraging this experience to deliver:
• Enterprise level projects:
o Advisory services
o Architecture guidance
o Roadmap definitions
o Design advisory and guidance
o Design development
• Pre-Sales:
o Requirements gathering
o Solution definition
o Technical costings
o Governance representation
• Attend Customer opportunity / strategy meetings to understand and articulate business and technical strategy for the company and customer.
• Provide qualification of designs or opportunities and produce high-level architecture/design documentation
• Work closely with Vendors / Partners to keep up to date with current and future technologies, products and strategies to manage the ‘cradle to grave’ solution provisions cycle.
• Act as a Design Authority for nominated key accounts
• Act as Technical Authority and lead for complex, enterprise-scale, mission-critical customer projects, throughout the project lifecycle – Campaign/Advisory, Pre-sales, Planning & Initiation and Delivery
• Work closely with peers and SMEs to create solutions for Computacenter customers
• Support colleagues in Solutions Sales to identify and create new propositions and services to take to market
• Research technology and deliver associated white papers to promote Computacenter’s offerings.
• Maintain high level of industry awareness through training and self-development
• Perform governance and due diligence around proposed solutions, ensuring they meet the documented customer requirements
What you'll need
Expected networking certifications to include:
• Cisco Certified CCIE R&S and/or Security
• Palo Alto Certified PCSNE
• Fortinet Certified FNCSE
• Zscaler ZTCA
• Azure and/or AWS Networking
Desirable networking experience:
• Cloud and Multicloud Networking and Security design and delivery
o F5 XC
o Aviatrix
o AWS
o Azure
• Multisite campus connectivity: wireless and wired
o Cisco
o Aruba
o Arista
• Software Defined Networking
o Cisco ACI
o VMWare NSX(T-V)
o Dell Sonic
o Arista
• Observability
o Cisco Thousand Eyes
o Cisco AppDynamics
o Dynatrace
• SASE and/or SD-WAN
o Cisco
o Palo Alto
o Zscaler
o iBoss
Desirable programmability experience:
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Python
• Jenkins
About us
With over 20,000 employees across the globe, we work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology, and helping our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure in over 70 countries. We deliver digital technology to some of the world’s greatest organisations, driving digital transformation, enabling people and their business.
