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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Ashburn, VA
Ashburn, Virginia

About this job

You know how to communicate with customers to find out what they need—and what solutions can fill those needs. Our dedicated Sales professionals receive award-winning training so they can present our game-changing technologies, products and services to the world.

Responsibilities

SUMMARY

The Principal Network Consultant will be responsible for the design, implementation, and handoff of complex network solutions spanning multiple technologies for a wide range of customers, from small to large enterprise, while providing senior technical leadership within the immediate team and the PS organization as a whole.

 RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Develop trusted technical advisor relationships with key customers
  • Consistently demonstrate the value of Verizon Network PS by delivering highly professional and successful engagements
  • Increase Network PS revenue by identifying areas of improvement for the Network PS team, encouraging follow on engagements with customers, maintaining a high level of quality and professionalism within assigned tasks, and increasing organizational exposure through direct engagement with pre and post sales organizations in multiple capacities.
  • Assist with the identification and scoping of Network PS opportunities.
  • Provide senior expert leadership both within the Network PS team as well as within assigned engagements.
  • Evolve and support the growth of the network PS practice through offering development, engagement with partner vendors to identify and vet new technologies and proposed solutions, and assisting with the vetting of potential team members.
  • Sustain a leadership role within team through mentorship, sharing experience and knowledge through technical sessions, and leading by example, both through professional interactions and the continued pursuit of expert level knowledge within multiple fields.
  • Accept individual ownership of critical issues, creatively thinking through to develop resolutions.

Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS

  • BS or higher with a STEM focus (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) or equivalent work experience.
  • 7+ years of military service within a communications specialty i.e. tactical data communications, technical controller, satellite communications, cyber security, etc. or 7+ years of experience within network engineering and other data communications fields.
  • 7+ years of technical experience and increasing responsibility (team lead, mentoring, and technical lead for large, multi-technology deployments)
  • Expert-level industry certifications within the network engineering field such as CCIE (full), JNCIE (full), or equivalent
  • Demonstrated history of subject matter expertise within claimed specialty (ies), for example: routing protocols (BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, RIP), L2 networks (RSTP, STP, 802.1x), MPLS, Cellular WAN, QoS, advanced configurations, etc.               
  • Demonstrated expertise in network design –ability to lead a design-related discussion with leading questions to fully vet a customer’s requirements and develop a proposed design fulfilling said requirements, identify potential impacts of a given design recommendation, knowledge of other technologies and their network requirements/impact, ability to produce comprehensive yet understandable technical documentation (design document, diagrams, etc.)
  • Demonstrated expertise in the implementation and troubleshooting of complex networks.
  • Demonstrated expertise in correlating business drivers and needs (financial drivers, impacts, and restrictions) into technical solutions, on proposed solutions
  • Demonstrated communication and relational skills – able to form a trusted advisor relationship with a customer, able to listen and guide a technical discussion, able to clearly articulate complex topics.
  • Does not require direct supervision - able to take high level direction and proactively move a project from start to finish with minimal assistance.
  • Able to perform a wide variety of technical and organizational tasks and may lead or direct the work of others.
  • Demonstrated history of mentoring less experienced engineers while maintaining productive relationships with peers.
  • Interest in other technical areas of data communications with a demonstrated desire to proactively learn new, or increase existing, skillset(s).

HIGHLY DESIRED EXPERIENCE & CREDENTIALS:

  • Professional or lower level industry certifications within the network engineering field such as CCNP (any track), JNCIP (any track), etc.
  • Certifications and/or significant exposure in other technical areas such as MCSE, CEH, security, UC, etc.
  • Experience with software and application development
  • Demonstrated knowledge of, and interest in, emerging technologies such as SDN, NFV, etc.
  • Experience with cloud-based services (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
  • Experience with any of the following: cellular WAN technologies and solutions, WAN optimization, Wireless LAN, datacenter technologies (load balancers, datacenter switching, etc.), virtualization technologies and concepts (Hypervisors, orchestration, software defined datacenter, NFV, etc.), security appliances and concepts (firewalls, IPS/IDS, identity management, access controls, etc.)

Equal Employment Opportunity

  • Verizon is a Federal Contractor
  • Verizon requests veteran priority referrals
  • Verizon is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer M/F/Disability/Vet.