Senior Systems Engineer - Remote, Pre-Sales & Secure Networking (SASE)

Versa Networks, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pre-IPO equity

Health insurance

Paid time off

Flexible work environment

Professional development

Employee recognition

Collaborative culture

Parental leave

Job summary

Versa Networks is seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer to help customers and partners evaluate, adopt and expand our Secure SD-WAN and SASE technology. You will provide pre-sales technical support, act as a trusted advisor to CIOs and CISOs, and enable partners with product knowledge and demonstrations.

The role involves hands-on testing, workshops, and ongoing feedback to product teams, with travel up to 30%. A strong background in network design and security across cloud and on-prem environments is

Qualifications

• Experience in planning and designing or operating service provider or large enterprise WAN/LAN networks.
• Knowledge on solutions on Cloud security with FWaaS, DLP, CASB, RBI and Malware prevention solutions.
• Knowledge on technologies used in the security scene, such as proxies, SSL/TLS, VPN’s, Active Director/SAML/LDAP, threat prevention and mitigation
• Understanding networking and security architectures on the SASE framework.
• In depth understanding of TCP/IP protocol stack and operation.
• Knowledge on WAN technologies and protocols like MPLS, MPLS based VPNs, BGP, OSPF, QoS, NAT, Multicast.
• Knowledge in architecting and/or managing large-scale, high performing and resilient Enterprise networking and security solutions.
• Knowledge on Linux administration.
• Frequent travel will be required as part of this role (30%)
• Beneficial Skills:
• Knowledge on best practices architectures for SaaS applications.
• Hands‑on experience in public and private cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, Openstack, VMware.
• ShelI scripting, python scripting knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Provide pre-sales technical support and technical expertise to our customers and partners with objective to achieve sales targets.
• Establish trusted advisory role with strategic customers and partners (CIO, CISO).
• Enable and/or update partner network on product evolution.
• Perform workshops with prospects or customers on product evaluations and do demonstrations.
• Perform hands‑on tests to validate customer proof‑of‑concept setups, network designs, and network deployments using new products and feature.
• Respond to RFI’s/RFP’s.
• Provide market and product feedback to product management and back‑office.
• Keep up-to-date on competitive solutions, products, and services.
• Author whitepapers, knowledge base articles, and other customer/partner facing content.

Skills

WAN/LAN design

Cloud security

TLS/SSL/VPNs

SASE framework

TCP/IP stack

MPLS/BGP/OSPF

Linux administration

Public/Private cloud

Shell/Python scripting

Travel readiness

Job description

Versa Networks is seeking a Sr. Systems Engineer to help customers and partners evaluate, adopt and expand our Secure SD-WAN and SASE technology. You will provide pre-sales technical support, act as a trusted advisor to CIOs and CISOs, and enable partners with product knowledge and demonstrations.

The role involves hands-on testing, workshops, and ongoing feedback to product teams, with travel up to 30%. A strong background in network design and security across cloud and on-prem environments is