Senior Technical Consultant, Network Services

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. 

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. 

As a Senior Technical Consultant, you will utilize your extensive knowledge and experience to design, develop and deploy solutions utilizing network technologies. You will work with a collaborative team leading, mentoring, and ensuring development efforts are well documented and delivered with quality. You will work with customer service owners, process owners and various service delivery groups and participate in demos and meetings in a professional and courteous manner. The Senior Technical Consultant is a highly experienced subject matter expert on network technologies with strong experience designing, developing, and deploying integrations with external third-party tools. 

• Participate in project teams to design and deploy complex network solutions.
• Lead a team of technical delivery resources to deliver excellent customer outcomes. 
• Provide outstanding customer experiences, leading to repeat business.
• Lead in the architecture and design of complex solutions. 
• Lead and create written deliverables such as technical diagrams, executive presentations, as-builts, and technology roadmaps. 
• Lead customer facing technical demonstrations and working sessions.  
• Influence team members and external customers regarding policies, best practices, and procedures. 
• Mentor junior staff and support project leadership. 
• Obtain and maintain certifications with associated qualifications. 

• Cisco CCNP or higher
• Palo Alto PCNSE
• Advanced level route/switch/firewall design and architecture skills for complex customer environments.
• BGP, OSPF, EIGRP
• Fabric switching
• Cisco FTD, Palo Alto firewalls, or Fortinet firewalls
• Cisco Viptela, Palo Alto SD-WAN, or Fortinet SD-WAN
• Mastery in at least three technologies: Cisco ACI, Nexus Dashboard, VxLAN, Viptela; Palo Alto SD-WAN, Prisma Access; Fortinet SD-WAN, Aruba networking or wireless, Arista networking, VMware NSX
• Advanced understanding of wireless integrations. Cisco or Aruba preferred.
• Strong skill integrating with third party tools; depth of understanding around API. Ability to design multi-site, cloud integrated networks.
• Strong presentation skills. Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences. Ability to communicate with senior leadership.
• Strong project and situational awareness. Take ownership, leading projects to successful outcomes for our customers, on budget.
• Strong attention to detail, self-starter, desire to be challenged.
• Communication is critical! Strong internal and external communication skills, both verbal and written.

• Palo Alto PCCSE or PCSAE
• Cisco CCIE
• Fortinet NSE 7
• Guardicore experience
• VMware NSX experience (v to t)
• Cisco or Aruba wireless experience
• F5 or AVI load balancing experience
• AWS, Azure, GCP network infrastructure experience
• Terraform, python, or other coding experience 

• Desire to be challenged. To work with industry leader peers.
• Recognized subject matter expert in at least two technical areas.
• Depth of knowledge and experience enables contribution in a more complex/critical environment. Communicate knowledge to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide measurable input into new products, processes, standards, and / or plans.
• Coordinate cross-practice and contribute to cross-practice deliverables to defined standards.
• Able to architect and lead deployment of moderately complex solutions.
• Communicate with external customers, which may include senior management, on matters that require explanation, interpretation, and / or advising.
• Participate in presales activities including scoping and positioning. 
• Identify new customer opportunities inside of the practice and engage pre-sales to begin new campaigns within the practice.
• Able to communicate beyond tactics and technology and can help customers management set strategic direction.
• A reliable resource for marketing on thought leadership pieces for their practice.
• Contribute to development of innovative and high impact solutions for complex customer programs.
• Work to influence direct team members, broader internal team, and external customers, possibly including senior management, to agree and accept new concepts, practices, and approaches.
• Provide an outstanding customer experience!
• Hours are based upon US customers, alongside US after-hours implementations, including weekends.

Why AHEAD:

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

USA Employment Benefits include: 

- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance 

- 401(k) 

- Paid company holidays 

- Paid time off 

- Paid parental and caregiver leave 

- Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details. 

The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.