
Senior network Consultant/Engineer - SDN focusing SDLAN/WAN
- Cairo
- Permanent
- Full-time
- The Senior Integration Solution Consultant has the responsibility of the architecture and technical strategy of a specific digital domain consulting project for the customer. She/he is leading the Orange design resources assigned to the digital consulting project.
- The Senior Integration Solution Consultant builds a trusted relationship with the relevant customer counterparts. He/she is taking responsibility of collecting customer business and technical requirements, translating them into an architecture and a technical strategy, evaluating the required consulting effort and delivering as required.
- The Senior integration Solution Consultant must be confortable jumping from one vendor to another one and dive into the details of configuration and specific features.
- Must be passionate by what you are doing
- Can lead the design team assigned on the project if required.
- Monitor and manage technical client relationships and status of ongoing engagements.
- Become client trusted advisor and contribute to customer Digital Transformation.
- Develop project deployment strategy for the consulting delivery related activities and produce the associated level of effort.
- Recognize and assess client key business drivers and challenges.
- Articulate service strategy (refine, refresh, change, optimize, …) in the relevant digital domain.
- Engage and partner with customers to jointly develop the architecture matching requirements and constraints.
- Produce customized architecture standards.
- Produce complex design documents.
- Contribute to the sales effort to support the positioning of new complex solutions in ad-hoc area of expertise and practice active consulting (up)selling.
- Maintain a high degree of technical knowledge of relevant Orange’s products, services and solutions sets.
- Contributes to the effort of knowledge management (documentation of completed assignments, knowledge sharing through presentations, participation to consulting Communities of Interest, mentoring, …).
- Very strong technical knowledge in networks and related services
- Cisco SDN products including SDA/DNA, ISE-NAC
- Mastering WAN, LAN, WLAN, routing, switching is expected
- Routing: OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, Performance routing, route redistribution, ACL, etc.
- Switching: VLAN, Trunking, QoS, GLBP, HSRP, VSS, VCP
- Wifi: 802.1n and ac standards, MIMO, WLC, Flexconnect
- CCNP or CCIE / CCDP or CCDE certification or similar level
- Strong technical knowledge in infrastructure security
- Firewalls, Web filtering, proxies, IPS/IDS, SSL VPN, Cloud security services
- Product knowledge: Checkpoint, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Juniper, F5
- Following skills is a plus:¿
- Palo alto Prisma SD
- Fortinet SD-WAN
- Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela)
- API dev
- Cloud experience (Azure / AWS / GCP)
- Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese (French is a plus)
- Related work experience in customer facing organizations within the IT and Telecom industry (channels, local representations working directly with customer IT management)
- Demonstrated strong technical leadership and matrix team management capabilities in a multi-national environment.
- Effective customer senior management communication.
- Ability to handle complex situations (internal and customer facing).
- Expert level in the integration and implementation of at least one specific digital domain (to be listed according to requirements)
- Advanced level in one or more digital domain(s).
- Strong technical skills around telecommunications/IT solutions and services in general / university degree in Communications systems/or Computer Science or equivalent.
- Proven track record in driving and positioning security technical strategy to customers’ needs at senior IT/CxO level.
- Understand market trends, technical and business issues associated with the ICT industry.
- Excellent business and commercial understanding.
- Financial management capabilities (P&L, TCO, ROI, …)
- Must have consultancy and service delivery experience in the ICT industry.
- Program and/or project management skills are a plus.