Solutions Engineer, Pre-Sales (West) (Networking)

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

Annual base salary plus commission target: $175,000–$225,000 USD.

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 win end-to-end Proofs of Concept, with senior SE support for the largest and most complex engagements.
• Assist customers with network design and deployment based on best practices.
• Provide customer-focused feedback to Product Management and drive key feature requests through implementation.
• Review designs, share field knowledge, 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, ideally with a networking or security vendor, cloud provider, channel partner, or consultancy.
• Strong networking fundamentals, including routing protocols and technologies such as BGP, OSPF, and static routing, plus hands-on route policy design, redistribution, and filtering.
• Understanding of network virtualization and software-defined networking, including VRFs, multi-tenant architectures, SD-WAN, and overlay protocols such as GRE and VXLAN.
• Hands-on experience with IPsec VPNs, encryption standards, NAT, and secure connectivity architectures.
• Understanding of enterprise cloud connectivity technologies, including 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 such as DNS, DHCP, load balancing, and traffic inspection.
• Ability to troubleshoot routing, security, and cloud issues in front of customers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with comfort presenting and demonstrating to customers in person.

Nice to have

• Cloud networking knowledge across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including VPCs/VNets, Transit Gateway, Virtual WAN, Cloud Router, peering, Direct Connect, and ExpressRoute.
• Network security experience with firewalls such as Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, or Check Point; 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.
• BA, BS, or MS degree in a technical field.
• Strong interest in sales and building long-lasting professional relationships.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work within the United States, with regional travel for customer coverage.
• Experienced Sales Engineering team with senior SE support and a clear path for career growth.
• Collaboration through design reviews, shared field practices, and reusable materials.
• Full employee benefits package.
• Human, connected culture with clear expectations, trust, shared accountability, and an AI-focused environment.