Description
Network & Security Professional required to assist pre-sales to meet customers requirements . You will contribute to profitable service/solution business by taking accountability so the services/solution can be delivered as designed, are suited for future standardization and related risks are understood.Develop end to end solutions for large private and public sector. Drive and coordinate solution teams to come a fit for purpose solution.
Requirements
- 4 to 7 years professional experience in the IT industry designing high value, complex solutions in a service context
- 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
- DataCenter 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
- Service Management
- Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture in multi-tower context
- Solid understanding of ins and outs of the different service towers and their interaction
- General knowledge of broad spectrum IT domains
- Translation of business requirements to a customer solution in a contractual context
- Strong Commercial awareness and business focus
- Knowledge of Service Management and service delivery modelling
- Knowledge of Transition and Transformation of complex environments is recommended
- Solid writing and presentation skills
- Cost model understanding, modification and creation
- Experience in working with near- and Off shore delivery and pricing models
- Specialist university degree or equivalent experience
- Good knowledge of solution development lifecycle
- Experienced in specific technology area's (from past functions)
Bachelor or equivalent experience
The Role
- Experience in designing solutions as a pre Sales architect for managed services and 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
- Maximized used of the client's standard Portfolio, Service Elements and Delivery capability
Regular contribution to and users of company knowledge repositories and events - Lead virtual teams in pre-sales as Lead Architect
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