Senior Networking Solutions Architect NY

Elite Placement Services has an immediate full-time position available with one of our clients. Come work for one of the fastest growing professional services organizations. 

Who You Are

You are an experienced and driven Senior Network Solution Architect with deep expertise in Cisco and Juniper technologies to support complex enterprise networking opportunities.

About The Role

In this client-facing role, you will partner with account teams to understand business needs, design best-in-class solutions, and position the capabilities as a strategic advantage. The ideal candidate blends technical depth with strong communication skills and thrives at the intersection of engineering and consultative selling.

Candidates must reside within a 90-minute commuting distance of Downtown New York City. Travel required up to 25% (At least once a week to NYC)

Other responsibilities include:

• Serve as the technical lead during pre-sales engagements, aligning network architectures with client goals across data center, campus, and WAN environments.
• Design and present solutions using Cisco (Catalyst, Nexus, ISR/ASR) and Juniper (MX, EX, SRX) platforms to meet customer requirements and business objectives.
• Lead whiteboarding sessions, technical workshops, and customer discovery meetings to define use cases, success criteria, and architectural recommendations.
• Collaborate with account managers, delivery teams, and OEM partners to develop comprehensive proposals, BOMs, and SOWs.
• Translate business needs into scalable, secure network architectures leveraging routing, switching, VPNs, and firewall technologies.
• Develop high-quality documentation, including HLDs, solution briefs, and client-ready presentations.
• Stay current on emerging technologies (SD-WAN, EVPN-VXLAN, automation) and communicate their value in customer environments.
• Participate in RFP responses, competitive analyses, and technical validation of proposed architectures.
• Act as a trusted advisor to enterprise clients, building long-term technical relationships.
• Complete ongoing security awareness training and comply with company policies to the requirements section.
• Identify and escalate security risks to the appropriate Executive Leadership Team member and actively contribute to remediation efforts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required skills and experience:

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise networking roles, including at least 2 years in a customer-facing pre-sales or solution architect capacity.
• Deep technical expertise in Cisco and Juniper network infrastructure (routing, switching, firewalls).
• Strong understanding of Layer 2/3 protocols (BGP, OSPF, STP, VLANs, VRFs), QoS, NAT, ACLs.
• Ability to lead technical discussions with engineers and executives alike.
• Experience designing or consulting on data center, WAN, or secure remote access solutions.
• Skilled at creating architecture diagrams, proposal documentation, and technical presentations.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Desired skills and experience:

• Certifications: CCNP/CCIE (Enterprise/Data Center), JNCIP/JNCIE strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with SD-WAN, EVPN-VXLAN, MPLS, or cloud networking (AWS/Azure).
• Experience with network automation (e.g., Ansible, Python) is a plus.
• Exposure to NAC, 802.1X, RADIUS, and hybrid networking environments.

Must be based in the United States

Some of the Benefits

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Incentive compensation plans for all employees
• Zero-cost employer-covered health insurance
• Company-funded 401k contributions
• Paid Parental Leave