Senior Network Engineer - (SD-WAN) - Netherlands/Belgium - €600-650

SENIOR NETWORK CONSULTANT SOFTWARE - DEFINED NETWORKING (SD-WAN) - ONGOING CONTRACT/NETHERLANDS OR BELGIUM

MISSION/ROLE PURPOSE:

- The Consultant will define the architecture and technical strategy of a specific SDN/SDWAN domain consulting project for the customer as well as leading the design resources assigned to supporting the consulting assessment or project.
- The 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 the consultancy as required.
- Responsibility of driving and managing a European wide regional technology practice encompassing a software-defined networking (SDN/SD-WAN) focus and including consultants who be matrixed or having a direct reporting line.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS:

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Network expert with SD-WAN knowledge or experience and good security skills:

- Technical knowledge and/or experience in networks and related services SDN/NFV, Data Center, Cloud Architecture technologies
- Cisco Viptela is desirable but not essential
- WAN, LAN, WLAN, routing, switching is required
- Routing & switching
- CCNP or CCIE certification or similar level
- DESIRABLE: Hands-on SD-WAN design and delivery experience with Cisco/Viptela, Riverbed SteelConnect, and any uCPE/NFV solutions.

SOFT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

- Fluent in English
- Minimum of 3 years related work experience in customer facing organisations within the ICT industry (channels, local representations working directly with customer IT management).
- Effective customer senior management communication.
- Ability to handle complex situations (internal and customer facing).
- Good understanding in the Networking practice and implementation of at least one specific networking consulting project (to be listed according to requirements)
- Advanced level in one or more other related technology practice supporting a networking practice.
- Strong technical skills around telecommunications/IT solutions and services in general/university degree in Communications systems/or Computer Science or equivalent.
- Understand market trends, technical and business issues associated with the ICT industry.
- Excellent business and commercial understanding.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Lead the design team assigned on the project.
- 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, optimise) 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 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

Upon applying for this role, your details will be held on our secure ATS Database for 12 months.