Description
We are looking for a Solution Design Architect to work on a contract in Brussels, Belgium.
Job Description:
To enable the winning of medium to Large (international) service and solution deals through solutions designs that meet customers requirements and are recognized as cost competitive. To contribute to profitable service/solution business by taking accountability that services/solution can be delivered as designed, are suited for future standardization and related risks are understood.
Skills:
- Create Designs that meet customer expectation and require minimal rework, following review
- Works within the contractual context of an outsourcing contract and initialises as such also contractual changes
- Design Solution that meets the appropriate optimized cost point within contractual context "
- Design solution conform the prescribed processes and methodologies for development of solutions and their approvals.
- Lead virtual teams in pre-sales as Lead Architect
- Experience in designing solutions as a pre Sales architect for managed services and outsourcing projects is a must. This can vary from complete solutions to additional demands/change requests going from 10K to over 1 million EUR
- Solid knowledge of Network and Security Services and Service Management solutions including
Technologies:
- Cisco CCNP knowledge level (or from other vendors)
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant pre sales experience with Datacenter Network technologies: Design, Implementation, Consultancy
- Good understanding emerging Layer 2 fabrics (Brocade VCS (VDX), Cisco FabricPath (Nexus)
- Able to design L2, L3 networks (VLAN, inter VLAN routing, spanning tree, static routing, OSPF, BGP, VRF ...) and converged networks (FCOE)
- Able to design load balancing solutions (F5, Cisco ACE, brocade adx) and SSL offload solutions
- Very good understanding of virtualization (VMware server virtualization, Network virtualization)
- Very good knowledge of security (able to design security zones, DMZ, ...)
- Good understanding of Firewalls, VPN, proxies
- Good understanding of cloud concepts
- Experience with defining migration strategies
- Experience with Cisco, Juniper and Brocade LAN devices
- Knowledge of SAN & storage is a plus
3 months contract with possible extensions
If this is something you are interested in then please apply with your most recent CV along with a suitable time to call.