AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.  We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.  We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.  As a Network Technical Consultant, you will work with a collaborative team developing and deploying solutions utilizing Network Technologies. You will support your clients and project teams ensuring development efforts are well documented and delivered with quality, participating in customer demos and meetings in a professional and courteous manner.  Roles & Responsibilities

Participate on project teams to deploy solutions on Cisco, Palo Alto, Aruba, AWS and Azure.

Participate in development and testing activities on Cisco & Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco ISE, Cisco ACI, SD Access, SD-WAN, DNA, wireless

Participate in the design of complex solutions, written deliverables, and client workshops

Participate in client demos and working sessions

Support senior team members and project leaders

Obtain and maintain certifications with associated qualifications

Contribute to scoping, planning, and methodology for critical projects; 

Communicate with external customers involving moderately complex negotiation and explanation of deliverables to varying audience members (technical, executive)

Qualifications

Minimum 5 years’ experience

CCNP required, CCIE preferred. Advanced Palo Alto (PCNSE, PCNSC), or Fortinet certifications a plus.

Mastery in at least one network related technology such as wireless architecture, complex data center network architectures, network segmentation

Extensive knowledge of routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP. Overlay technologies such as VxLAN

Ability to communicate well with external customers of varying technological depth

Strong presentation, documentation, and communication skills

Prior consulting experience a plus

Self-starter

Able to travel of at least 25%

Expectations

Strategic thought, seasoned professional

Perform core project work with limited supervision

Work on moderate to complex issues

May provide data and situational analysis and in-depth evaluation of a variety of factors

Problem and issues are of moderate scope, are difficult and sometimes complex, and require information gathering and analysis

Can lead written deliverable creation within their area of expertise

Strong working knowledge to own components of a complex solution

Can clearly articulate the scope of the project and work they are tasked to perform 

Can articulate how their work relates to the business objectives for the project

Proactively reach out to the project manager with concerns about project overruns

Identify client requests that are out of scope and escalates to the project manager or sales team