Senior Solution Architect, Data Centre Networking

Lead customer project delivery engagements by providing design and solution consultancy for large scale solutions and complex issues, related to data centre networking & security
- Consult and work with customers to plan, design, install, configure, integrate and/or optimize the solution & services to accelerate business outcomes.
- Translate business requirements into data centre networking solution design. Drives customer technology transitions, influencing solution architectures and services.
- Participate in services presales activities which include helping create statement of work, scoping of efforts, propose right services & solutions, articulate the value and expertise of the Company’s professional services as part of a comprehensive outcome-based solution.
- Conceptualize (Customer Requirements Document), plan (Implementation Strategy Plan), design (High & Low Level Design) and advise cross-functional teams across multiple technical, operational and enterprise architecture domains.
- Provides leadership capabilities and insight for creation and sharing of best practices to improve service quality and efficiency.
- Provides technical expertise and escalation support in resolving technical problems within the professional services team
- Mentor and develop junior network engineers
- Create and deliver training and/or mentorship programs for technical resources within the professional services organization.
- Partner with the presales team to improve the quality and accuracy of the Scope of Work and cost estimates
**Requirements**:

- Degree in Computing or Engineering discipline
- CCIE (Routing & Switching) and/or CCIE (Data Centre)
- At least 10 years’ experience in project deployment for complex network infrastructure for data centre/cloud and campus, including at least 3 years in a solution architect role
- Advanced knowledge of Software Delivered Data Centres in general and Software Delivered Networks in particular.
- Should have acumen for emerging technologies in the networking world.
- Advanced skills about data centre networks and protocols (Unicast, Multicast, Anycast).
- Advanced skills in network protocols: IP, TCP, UDP, and other common protocols.
- Advanced skills in network routing protocols: IGP and EGP like OSPF, IS-IS, BGP and others.
- Advanced skills in Ethernet fabric technologies: Fabric Path, Cisco ACI and EVPN VXLAN
- Advanced skills in software defined networks especially for Cisco ACI and/or VMware NSX-T/V
- Advanced skills on how to implement network protocols within a Cisco Nexus network.
- Advanced skills in analyze network problems via wireshark or any other tool set.
- Advanced skills in network services like IPAM, DNS, SMTP, NTP, Load Balancing and others.
- Advanced skills in how to integration various systems inside a data centre
- Advanced skills in designing, implementing & migrating data centre firewalls/IPS/IDS
- Intermediate skills in project management (waterfall & agile) and supplier management.
- Basic skills in physical cable management systems, optics, fibres and data centre facility.
- Basic skills in data centre facility architectures and setups
- Customer satisfaction is your focus and accordingly you have a strong service mentality
- Flexibility and willingness to learn new technologies, scale quickly and adapt situationally to different requirements
- Excellent analytical skills and problem solver mentality
- Creative thinking in designing and implementing service improvements
- Deep experience in customer handling and stakeholder management.
- Ability to handle escalations, be a trusted advisor for the customer and work closely with customers in defining solutions

Lim Shen Chee (Reg No. R1660557)
EA License No. 07C5771