Solutions Engineer, LATAM (Networking)

Location: Remote in the United States, ideally based in Central Time, USA; approximately 25% regional air travel.

Salary: $175,000–$225,000 per year base salary plus commission target; compensation may vary by qualifications, experience, and work location.

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead the technical side of customer engagements from initial discussions through proof of concept and close, partnering with Account Managers on LATAM strategy.
• Present and demonstrate the hirify.global platform to technical decision makers ranging from engineers to CIOs, articulating its value, market position, and competitive differentiation.
• Understand customer requirements and pain points, respond to technical requests and RFPs/RFIs, and design deployment approaches based on networking best practices.
• Scope, run, and win end-to-end proof-of-concept engagements, with senior SE support for the largest and most complex opportunities.
• Provide customer-focused feedback to Product Management, track feature requests, and help drive agreed features through implementation.
• Review designs, share field knowledge, and create reusable sales engineering materials with the wider SE team.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in a customer-facing pre-sales engineering role, such as Sales Engineer, Systems Engineer, Solutions Consultant, or Solutions Architect, ideally with a networking or security vendor, cloud provider, channel partner, or consultancy.
• Strong networking fundamentals.
• Working knowledge of routing protocols and technologies including BGP, OSPF, and static routing, with hands-on experience in route policy design, route redistribution, and filtering.
• Understanding of network virtualization and software-defined networking, including VRFs, multi-tenant network architectures, SD-WAN, and overlay encapsulation protocols such as GRE and VXLAN.
• Hands-on experience with IPsec VPNs, encryption standards, NAT, and secure connectivity architectures.
• Understanding of enterprise cloud connectivity using technologies such as Cloud On-Ramps, SD-WAN, and IPsec.
• Experience contributing to enterprise network design and deployment across data center, WAN, or hybrid/multi-cloud environments.
• Understanding of network services including DNS, DHCP, load balancing, and traffic inspection.
• Ability to troubleshoot routing, security, and cloud issues in front of customers, with support from the wider SE team for the hardest problems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and comfort presenting and demonstrating to customers in person.

Nice to have

• Understanding of cloud networking constructs across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including VPCs/VNets, Transit Gateway, Virtual WAN, Cloud Router, peering, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, and hybrid connectivity.
• Network security experience with firewalls such as Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, or Check Point; firewall policy design, service insertion/chaining, and Zero Trust principles.
• Relevant technical certifications such as CCNA/CCNP, AWS Advanced Networking, Azure Network Engineer, or PCNSE.
• Familiarity with Terraform or infrastructure-as-code for network automation.
• BA, BS, or MS degree in a technical field.
• Strong passion for sales and creating long-lasting professional relationships.

Culture & Benefits

• Experienced Sales Engineering team with senior SE mentorship and a clear path for career growth.
• Direct influence on the product roadmap through customer and field feedback.
• Remote work in the United States with approximately 25% regional travel.
• Full benefits package eligibility.
• Culture based on clear expectations, trust, shared accountability, collaboration, and support.

Hiring process

• Selected candidates undergo a background screening that may include criminal records, motor vehicle reports, or drug screening depending on position requirements.