Senior Networking Solutions Architect NY

Elite Placement Services; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)

Incentive compensation plans

Employer-covered health insurance

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in New York seeks a Senior Networking Solutions Architect. The role involves designing and presenting complex network solutions using Cisco and Juniper technologies, serving as a technical lead during pre-sales engagements. Candidates should have over 7 years of enterprise networking experience, excellent communication skills, and thrive in a client-facing role. Benefits include unlimited PTO, incentive compensation, and employer-covered health insurance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise networking roles.
• Deep technical expertise in Cisco and Juniper network infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of Layer 2/3 protocols.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead during pre-sales engagements.
• Design and present solutions using Cisco and Juniper platforms.
• Collaborate with team members to develop comprehensive proposals.

Skills

Cisco expertise

Juniper expertise

Enterprise networking experience

Customer-facing pre-sales experience

Communication skills

Job description

Senior Networking Solutions Architect NY

About the job Senior Networking Solutions Architect NY

Elite Placement Services has an immediate full-time position available with one of our clients. Come work for one of the fastest growing professional services organizations.

Who You Are

You are an experienced and driven Senior Network Solution Architect with deep expertise in Cisco and Juniper technologies to support complex enterprise networking opportunities.

About The Role

In this client-facing role, you will partner with account teams to understand business needs, design best-in-class solutions, and position the capabilities as a strategic advantage. The ideal candidate blends technical depth with strong communication skills and thrives at the intersection of engineering and consultative selling.

Candidates must reside within a 90-minute commuting distance of Downtown New York City. Travel required up to 25% (At least once a week to NYC)

Other responsibilities include:

• Serve as the technical lead during pre-sales engagements, aligning network architectures with client goals across data center, campus, and WAN environments.
• Design and present solutions using Cisco (Catalyst, Nexus, ISR/ASR) and Juniper (MX, EX, SRX) platforms to meet customer requirements and business objectives.
• Lead whiteboarding sessions, technical workshops, and customer discovery meetings to define use cases, success criteria, and architectural recommendations.
• Collaborate with account managers, delivery teams, and OEM partners to develop comprehensive proposals, BOMs, and SOWs.
• Translate business needs into scalable, secure network architectures leveraging routing, switching, VPNs, and firewall technologies.
• Develop high-quality documentation, including HLDs, solution briefs, and client-ready presentations.
• Stay current on emerging technologies (SD-WAN, EVPN-VXLAN, automation) and communicate their value in customer environments.
• Participate in RFP responses, competitive analyses, and technical validation of proposed architectures.
• Act as a trusted advisor to enterprise clients, building long-term technical relationships.
• Complete ongoing security awareness training and comply with company policies to the requirements section.
• Identify and elevate security risks to the appropriate Executive Leadership Team member and actively contribute to remediation efforts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required skills and experience:

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise networking roles, including at least 2 years in a customer-facing pre-sales or solution architect capacity.
• Deep technical expertise in Cisco and Juniper network infrastructure (routing, switching, firewalls).
• Strong understanding of Layer 2/3 protocols (BGP, OSPF, STP, VLANs, VRFs), QoS, NAT, ACLs.
• Ability to lead technical discussions with engineers and executives alike.
• Experience designing or consulting on data center, WAN, or secure remote access solutions.
• Skilled at creating architecture diagrams, proposal documentation, and technical presentations.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Desired skills and experience:

• Certifications: CCNP/CCIE (Enterprise/Data Center), JNCIP/JNCIE strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with SD-WAN, EVPN-VXLAN, MPLS, or cloud networking (AWS/Azure).
• Experience with network automation (e.g., Ansible, Python) is a plus.
• Exposure to NAC, 802.1X, RADIUS, and hybrid networking environments.

Must be based in the United States

Some of the Benefits

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Incentive compensation plans for all employees
• Zero-cost employer-covered health insurance