Sr. Solutions Engineer, Pre-Sales (West)

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

Salary: $200,000–$300,000 annually, including base salary and commission target.

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 requests, and respond to RFPs and RFIs.
• Scope, run, and win end-to-end Proofs of Concept.
• Help customers design and deploy enterprise networks using best practices.
• Provide customer-driven feedback to Product Management and track key feature requests through implementation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in customer-facing pre-sales engineering 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, 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, and enterprise network design across data centers, WAN, and hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
• Understanding of network services including DNS, DHCP, load balancing, and traffic inspection, plus the ability to troubleshoot routing, security, and cloud issues in front of customers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with 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 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 strong interest in sales and long-term customer relationships.

Culture & Benefits

• Full employee benefits package.
• Collaborative, connected work environment with clear expectations 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 role requirements.