Solution Architect (Secure Networking)
Life on the team
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic and rapidly expanding Consultancy Practice within Computacenter. The ideal candidate will have experience of working in a consultancy position with focus on traditional, advanced and emerging and network solutions. Computacenter is experiencing high growth across all our networking technology services and the position will suit a candidate that enjoys a fast moving and varied role, working into enterprise customers that require the definition and delivery of advanced technology solutions.
What you’ll do
Working as part of a team or as the engagement lead with experience in multi-cloud networking, SASE, datacentre networking, network simplification, automation, observability and application networking and a strong understanding and alignment of security as it relates to the previous technology areas. Leveraging this experience to deliver:
- Enterprise level projects:
- Advisory services
- Requirements gathering
- Technical costings
- Attend Customer opportunity / strategy meetings to understand and articulate business and technical strategy for the company and customer.
- Provide qualification of designs or opportunities and produce high-level architecture/design documentation
- Work closely with Vendors / Partners to keep up to date with current and future technologies, products and strategies to manage the ‘cradle to grave’ solution provisions cycle.
- Act as a Design Authority for nominated key accounts
- Act as Technical Authority and lead for complex, enterprise-scale, mission-critical customer projects, throughout the project lifecycle – Campaign/Advisory, Pre-sales, Planning & Initiation and Delivery
- Work closely with peers and SMEs to create solutions for Computacenter customers
- Support colleagues in Solutions Sales to identify and create new propositions and services to take to market
- Research technology and deliver associated white papers to promote Computacenter’s offerings.
- Maintain high level of industry awareness through training and self-development
- Perform governance and due diligence around proposed solutions, ensuring they meet the documented customer requirements
What you’ll need
- Demonstrable expertise in assessing, defining and supporting Enterprise level network transformation projects
- Network modernisation strategies
- Cloud migration and integration
- SD-WAN architectures
- Network automation and orchestration
- Security compliance and integration
- Performance optimisation
- Application visibility and optimisation
- Proven expertise in multi-cloud architectures and technologies, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) implementations, automation, and network transformation.
- Experience working with multi-cloud environments (including public cloud providers, cloud brokers and multi-cloud connectivity) and designing network solutions spanning multiple cloud providers.
- Strong understanding of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) principles and architectures.
- Proficiency in network automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Python scripting.
- Experience with network transformation initiatives, including legacy network modernization and migration to cloud-native architectures.
Relevant certifications:
- Cisco Certified CCNP or CCIE.
- Palo Alto Certified PCSNE
- Fortinet Certified FNCSE
- Zscaler ZTCA
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- F5 Distributed Cloud
Experience in network automation tools or programming languages:
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Python
- Github