Presales Solutions Engineer (Network)

Location: Remote in the Louisville, Kentucky area, with a home office setup

Salary: $120,000–$230,000 annual pay, including base salary and bonus

Company

Global provider of IT solutions and services supporting organizations with technology consulting, infrastructure, cloud, network, security, collaboration, and related services.

What you will do

• Partner with architects and account teams to assess customer network, data center, cloud, and infrastructure environments.
• Design and propose infrastructure solutions aligned with customer objectives, requirements, and budgets.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor for customers and collaborate with Field Account Executives.
• Educate sales teams and customers through product training, technical presentations, and solution-selling enablement.
• Build technical relationships with OEMs, strategic partners, and emerging technology providers.
• Manage the solution practice pipeline, develop prospect strategies, and identify opportunities across data center, cloud, network, security, collaboration, and services.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of route/switch, LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, cloud edge, virtual networking, secure access, and network visibility solutions.
• Experience communicating and selling complex technical products or services by understanding customer needs and articulating value.
• Knowledge of comparable vendor solutions from Aruba, Juniper, HPE, Arista, and similar providers.
• Experience with software-defined networking technologies, including SDDC, SD-WAN, SASE, and SSE.
• At least 2 years of experience with Cisco networking products, including switches, routers, wireless, Nexus, and Meraki, plus familiarity with Cisco Commerce Workspace.
• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience; advanced certifications such as CCIE, CCNP, JNCIE, JNCIP, CASX, or ACSP are required.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote home office arrangement managed by the organization.
• Travel to company, partner, and customer events is required.
• Professional growth and leadership development opportunities.
• Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), and flexible spending benefits may be available.
• Work with account teams, architects, customers, OEMs, and strategic partners.