Senior Solutions Engineer, Pre-Sales (East Coast)

Location: Remote within the United States; candidates must reside on the East Coast, USA. Approximately 25% regional travel is required.

Base salary: $118,079–$216,482 per year, depending on location, skills, and experience.

Company

hirify.global, a Lumen Connect solution, provides a programmable cloud networking platform for connecting, securing, and operating enterprise clouds, sites, partners, data centers, and AI workloads.

What you will do

• Present and demonstrate the hirify.global platform to technical decision-makers ranging from engineers to CIOs.
• Partner with Account Managers to understand customer requirements, address technical questions, and respond to RFPs and RFIs.
• Scope, lead, and win end-to-end Proofs of Concept.
• Help customers design and deploy network architectures using established best practices.
• Collaborate with Product Management to communicate customer feedback and drive feature requests through implementation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of customer-facing pre-sales engineering experience as a Sales Engineer, Systems Engineer, Solutions Consultant, or Solutions Architect.
• Strong networking fundamentals with deep expertise in BGP, OSPF, static routing, route policy, redistribution, filtering, and traffic engineering.
• Experience with network virtualization, software-defined networking, VRFs, multi-tenant architectures, SD-WAN, and overlay protocols such as GRE, VXLAN, and GENEVE.
• Hands-on experience with IPsec VPNs, encryption, NAT, secure connectivity, enterprise cloud networking, and large-scale data center, WAN, and hybrid multi-cloud deployments.
• Ability to troubleshoot routing, security, and cloud issues live with customers, plus excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS, Azure, and GCP networking constructs, including cloud connectivity services.
• Network security expertise covering firewalls, policy design, service insertion, service chaining, and Zero Trust principles.
• Certifications such as CCNP/CCIE, AWS Advanced Networking, Azure Network Engineer, or PCNSE.
• Familiarity with Terraform or infrastructure-as-code for network automation.
• Technical degree and a strong interest in sales and long-term customer relationships.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote role with approximately 25% regional travel.
• Fast-moving, AI-focused organization with clear expectations, trust, support, and shared accountability.
• Opportunity to influence the product roadmap through direct customer and field feedback.
• Background screening may include criminal records, motor vehicle reports, or drug screening depending on the position.