Solutions Engineer, Pre-Sales (West)

Location: Remote, United States; candidates must reside in the Pacific, Mountain or Central time zone. Approximately 25% regional travel is required.

Salary: $175,000–$225,000 gross annual base salary plus commission target, depending on 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

• Present and demonstrate the hirify.global platform to technical decision-makers from engineers through CIOs.
• Partner with Account Managers to understand customer requirements, address technical questions, and respond to RFPs and RFIs.
• Scope, run, and complete end-to-end Proofs of Concept, with senior SE support for the largest engagements.
• Help customers design and deploy network solutions using recommended practices.
• Provide customer-driven feedback and feature requests to Product Management and track them through implementation.
• Review designs, share field practices, and create reusable sales-engineering materials with the wider SE team.

Requirements

• 4+ years of customer-facing pre-sales engineering experience as a Sales Engineer, Systems Engineer, Solutions Consultant, or Solutions Architect.
• Strong networking fundamentals, including BGP, OSPF, static routing, route policy design, redistribution, and filtering.
• Experience with network virtualization, software-defined networking, VRFs, multi-tenant architectures, SD-WAN, GRE, and VXLAN.
• Hands-on experience with IPsec VPNs, encryption, NAT, secure connectivity, and enterprise network design across data center, WAN, or hybrid multi-cloud environments.
• Knowledge of network services such as DNS, DHCP, load balancing, and traffic inspection, with the ability to troubleshoot routing, security, and cloud issues in front of customers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and confidence presenting and demonstrating solutions to customers.

Nice to have

• Cloud networking experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including VPCs/VNets, Transit Gateway, Virtual WAN, Cloud Router, peering, Direct Connect, and ExpressRoute.
• Network security experience with firewalls, firewall policy design, service insertion or chaining, and Zero Trust principles.
• Relevant certifications such as CCNA/CCNP, 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 professional relationships.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with an experienced Sales Engineering team and senior SEs on complex opportunities.
• Opportunity for career growth and direct influence on the product roadmap through customer feedback.
• Full employee benefits package.
• Background screening may include criminal-record, motor-vehicle, or drug checks depending on the position.
• Culture emphasizes clear expectations, trust, shared accountability, collaboration, and meaningful outcomes.