alkira
Sr. Solutions Engineer, Pre-Sales (East Coast)
United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$118k-$197kDetected 2 days ago
AWSGCPAzureTerraformCybersecurityNetwork SecuritySalesSystems EngineeringDNSFirewallVPNCiscoBGP/OSPFSD-WANLoad BalancingZero TrustNetwork EngineeringAR/VRCommunicationPublic Speaking
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Lottery odds (Level III)83
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About the role
- Candidates should reside in East Coast, USA Travel: approximately 25%, including regional air travel as needed.
- Please discuss the specifics for this position with the recruiter.
- At Alkira, you'll help shape the next chapter of networking: cloud-like consumption, private-network performance, and total control across the enterprise.
Responsibilities
- Track and drive key customer features/asks with Alkira Product Management to implementation
- 8+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales engineering role - Sales Engineer, Systems Engineer, Solutions Consultant or Solutions Architect - ideally at a networking or security vendor, cloud provider, channel partner, or consultancy
- Strong networking fundamentals - Everything below builds on this, and it is not negotiable
- 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 virtualization and software-defined networking, including VRFs, multi-tenant network architectures, SD-WAN, and the encapsulation protocols used to build overlays at scale (GRE, VXLAN, GENEVE and similar)
- Partner with Alkira Account Managers to understand customer requirements and pain points.
- Network security expertise, including firewalls (e.g., Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Check Point), firewall policy design, service insertion/chaining, and Zero Trust principles
- Alkira, a Lumen Connect® solution, is building the future of enterprise networking: one programmable platform to connect, secure, and operate every cloud, site, partner, data center, and AI workload.
- With real support and shared accountability, teams collaborate better, move faster, and deliver meaningful outcomes.
- Our Lumen 8 behaviors guide how we interact, make decisions, and work together, shaping a culture built to perform and win.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with IPsec VPNs, encryption standards, NAT, and secure connectivity architectures
Nice to have
- Strongly preferred
Compensation
- Compensation Disclosure
Benefits
- We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training.
Company info
- Today, as part of Lumen, we are bringing that cloud-native operating model to a global network foundation trusted by the world's largest enterprises.
- Our platform helps customers move faster without managing hardware, stitching together providers, or operating fragmented cloud networks.
- Partner with Alkira Account Managers to understand customer requirements and pain points. Assist with any technical asks from customers and help respond to RFP/RFIs
- Assist customers with design and deployment based on best practices
- Assist with any technical asks from customers and help respond to RFP/RFIs
- Founded by Amir and Atif Khan, the creators of Viptela and pioneers of the SD-WAN market, Alkira was built to radically simplify how enterprises deploy and manage network infrastructure.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of race, color, ancestry, citizenship, national origin, religion, veteran status, disability, genetic characteristic or information,
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