Enterprise Solutions Architect

CBTS serves enterprise and midmarket clients in all industries across the United States and Canada. CBTS combines deep technical expertise with a full suite of flexible technology solutions--including Application Modernization, Managed Hybrid Cloud, Cybersecurity, Unified Communications, and Infrastructure solutions. From developing and deploying modern applications and the secure, scalable platforms on which they run, to managing, monitoring, and optimizing their operations, CBTS delivers comprehensive technology solutions for its clients' transformative business initiatives. For more information, please visit www.cbts.com.

Job Purpose:

• Enterprise Solutions Architect position is responsible for the design and implementation of enterprise-wide technical solutions that align with the organization's overall strategy and goals.
• This role is responsible for ensuring that the solutions are scalable, secure, and meet the needs of the business.
• Responsible for providing pre-sale and post-sale design support for prospective and current customers as needed.
• Serve as implementation and support escalation for network and security services products.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for the design and implementation of scalable, secure enterprise-wide technical solutions that align with the organization's overall internal - external strategic goals such as traditional WAN, SD-WAN, NaaS, SaaS, Wireless, AWS, Azure, GCP among others
• Work closely and collaborate with the different engineering departments within our secure networking security services organization, IT, cloud, operations, product, sales, pre-sales, among others to successfully deliver our services internally and externally.
• Responsible for the development, document, and maintenance of best practices solutions guidelines to be distributed and implemented across the entire organization
• Responsible for developing, implement and document any POC (prove of concept) associated with existing or new product/technologies
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends and evaluate their potential impact on the organization
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure solutions are integrated and align with the organization's overall strategy
• Communicate with the stakeholders and other teams to understand their requirements and develop solutions that meet their needs Function as the highest technical escalation level for the entire organization 24/7 availability as needed
• Design and escalation for support/troubleshooting of complex customer environments that encompass multiple clouds and datacenters
• Best practice design and solution validation - responsible for vetting designs and customer solutions in lab scenarios Network Automation and Programmability - using industry tools and API access

Education:

Four years of College resulting in a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Certifications, Accreditations, Licenses:

CCIE or equivalent -- preferred CCNP or equivalent -- must have Nokia, CISCO, Juniper, Velocloud, Aruba, Meraki, Palo Alto, F5 Networks, any security certification a plus

Relevant Work Experience:

Over 10 years in related field Special Knowledge

Skills and Abilities:

AWS and Azure networking - design and implementation Site-to-site VPNs along with client VPNs - Meraki, Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Checkpoint Securing networks with UTM appliances - Palo Alto, Fortinet and Checkpoint Python, Ansible and Linux experience Experience with BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP large corporate LAN/WANs Troubleshoot complex networks to identify root cause issue Experience with Velocloud, Prisma Access, Prisma SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki, Juniper, Aruba, Checkpoint, Fortinet, Nokia, Cisco System IT Infrastructure, Cloud deployment Network Security, SASE Enterprise and Data Center architecture Communications/customer skills

Due to U.S. Government requirements applicable to foreign-owned telecommunications providers, non-US citizens may be required to submit to an extensive government agency background check which will necessitate disclosure of sensitive Personally Identifiable Information.