Senior Network Solutions Engineer - Pre-Sales

AHEAD; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 245,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Parental leave

Caregiver leave

Job summary

AHEAD is seeking a Senior Specialty Solutions Engineer-Network to lead network infrastructure strategy and pre-sales engagements for enterprise clients on the East Coast. You will collaborate with sales, partners, and vendors to craft technical solutions, size and configure products, and demonstrate value across campus, data center, and cloud networking domains.

The role requires deep networking expertise (wireless, campus LAN, data center, security) and strong pre-sales experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent.
• Pre-Sales and Data Center experience is required.
• Professional communication, presentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working as a technical lead in a pre-sale’s sales campaign.
• Ability to work under critical conditions and influence others to achieve results.
• Strong interpersonal skills with excellent presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Participation, Leadership and Coordination of the AHEAD virtual team for Network Infrastructure
• You will also be responsible for working with the AHEAD partner management team and directly with selected vendors to maintain vendor technical and sales relationships
• As a Network Specialist you are a thought leader within the Engineering organization, responsible for designing, architecting, and, at times, consulting for Ahead clients
• Your goal as a Network Lead should be to build skills, relationships, and industry credibility across many segments to drive product, services and consulting sales
• Support the sales teams during engagements by providing advice and solutions or proposals optimized to meet customer technical and business requirements
• Develops relationships with the account managers, partners and customers in support of sales team objectives and engages and leverages team specialist resources as appropriate
• Strategizes and executes technical sales calls
• Completes required pre-sales documentation (configurations, pricing, services, presentations, justifications etc.) quickly and accurately
• Qualifies sales opportunities in terms of customer technical requirements, decision making process and funding
• Presents and markets the design and value of proposed Ahead solutions and business justification to customers, prospects and Ahead management
• Participates in mentorship of entry-level team members
• Possesses strong, detailed product / technology / industry knowledge. Knowledge of job-associated software and applications

Skills

Network Infrastructure

Wireless skills

Campus/LAN

Cisco certifications

Cisco Nexus Technologies

IP Routing Protocols

Datacenter Technologies

Network Management

Network Security

SASE knowledge

VMware / NSX

Arista

Automation

F5 / NetScaler

Cloud connectivity (AWS/Azure)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

VMware NSX

Arista

F5 / NetScaler

Amazon AWS

Microsoft Azure

Job description

AHEAD is seeking a Senior Specialty Solutions Engineer-Network to lead network infrastructure strategy and pre-sales engagements for enterprise clients on the East Coast. You will collaborate with sales, partners, and vendors to craft technical solutions, size and configure products, and demonstrate value across campus, data center, and cloud networking domains.

The role requires deep networking expertise (wireless, campus LAN, data center, security) and strong pre-sales experience.