Sr. Solutions Engineer, Pre-Sales (UK)

Location: United Kingdom (Remote); approximately 25% travel, including regional air travel.

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 major enterprise deals from initial conversations through proof of concept and close.
• 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 requests, and respond to RFPs and RFIs.
• Scope, run, and win end-to-end Proofs of Concept.
• Help customers design and deploy network solutions using best practices.
• Provide customer-driven feedback and track feature requests with Product Management.

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 design, redistribution, filtering, and traffic engineering.
• Experience with network virtualization and software-defined networking, including VRFs, multi-tenant architectures, SD-WAN, GRE, VXLAN, and GENEVE.
• Hands-on experience with IPsec VPNs, encryption, NAT, secure connectivity, DNS, DHCP, load balancing, and traffic inspection.
• Large-scale enterprise network design and deployment experience across data centers, WAN, and hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to troubleshoot live and present technical 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 expertise with firewalls, policy design, service insertion or 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 professional relationships.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a human, connected, and AI-focused organization.
• Clear expectations, autonomy, support, and shared accountability.
• Collaborate on technology for cloud connectivity, network security, segmentation, and distributed-environment visibility.
• Background screening may include criminal-record, motor-vehicle, or drug checks depending on the position.
• Equal employment opportunity and applicant privacy protections apply.