Remote Solutions Architect

Summary

Join SonicWall as a Solutions Architect and work with customers and partners to architect solutions within our Network Security product line. This includes Firewalls, Switching, and Wireless products, and the related management platforms.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience required
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Network Security Architect, or Sr. Consultant
• A./B.S. in CS/CIS/MIS/Business or related field equivalent preferred
• Prior experience managing customer/partner accounts from a technical perspective
• Technical experience in the Cyber security, Cloud and Network Security Industry
• Experience as a network administrator (or equivalent) in a Windows or Unix environment
• Proven expertise with Network Security (Routers, Switches, firewalls, VPN, routers)
• Knowledge of Cloud and Virtualization platforms
• Demonstrated ability to successfully execute requirements based on a SOW and project plans
• Background in internetworking, LAN, and WAN technologies
• Background in debugging broad, complex, and unique enterprise environments with mixed media and protocols
• Strong experience of leading complex enterprise projects using a structured approach
• Good technical knowledge of network devices (switches, routers, firewalls, IDS/IPS, load balancers, proxies)
• Excellent technical knowledge of: Networking principals - TCP/IP, routing, DNS preferred
• Strong experience of architecting/designing enterprise solutions (application services, network or security)

Responsibilities

• Take a lead role with technical Pre-Sales and Post-Sales efforts, from initial discovery and qualification, solution design, demo, proof of concept, bill of materials, and scope of work for professional services
• Can proactively assess solutions already in production and seek to help customers and partners optimize their current deployments
• Focuses on delivering the best possible user experience and ensures the products/services are providing excellent value to the partners and customers
• Identify new use cases within an existing customer or partner, ability to build a deployment plan and support the roll out from a design perspective
• Share best practices in design and deployments
• Oversees critical escalations between customers, partners, and SonicWall
• Looks to share roadmap updates and collect feedback to product management, support, engineering and sales leadership
• Conduct business reviews regularly, bringing together key stakeholders from SonicWall, partners, and customers
• Work alongside Sales account management in partnership to retain and grow the business
• Participates in key events such as webinars and conferences as technical champion and presenter