Senior Pre-Sales Solutions Engineer (Remote, East Coast)
Alkira, Inc.
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Job summary
Alkira, a Lumen Connect Solution, is seeking an experienced Senior Solutions Engineer for the East Coast to lead technical engagements in large enterprise deals. This remote US role partners with Account Managers to shape strategy, run POCs, and translate customer needs into scalable cloud-network designs.
You will demo the Alkira platform to executives and engineers, defend the value proposition, and provide feedback to product teams.
Qualifications
- 8+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales role (Sales Engineer or similar).
- Strong networking fundamentals are non-negotiable.
- Hands-on routing: BGP, OSPF, static routes, route policies.
- SD-WAN and cloud connectivity concepts incl. VXLAN/GRE/GENEVE.
- IPsec VPNs and secure connectivity architectures.
- Experience with large-scale enterprise networks (DC/WAN/multi-cloud).
Responsibilities
- Present Alkira platform to technical decision makers from engineers to CIOs.
- Articulate Alkira value proposition and market landscape.
- Partner with Account Managers to gather requirements and respond to RFPs.
- Scope, run and win Proof of Concepts end-to-end.
- Assist with design and deployment using best practices.
- Provide feedback to Product Management based on customer input.
- Track and drive customer feature requests to implementation.
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Job description
Alkira, a Lumen Connect Solution, is seeking an experienced Senior Solutions Engineer for the East Coast to lead technical engagements in large enterprise deals. This remote US role partners with Account Managers to shape strategy, run POCs, and translate customer needs into scalable cloud-network designs.
You will demo the Alkira platform to executives and engineers, defend the value proposition, and provide feedback to product teams.
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