Principal Consultant, Cisco Networking

About the role 

As a Computacenter Principal Consultant, you will assist in providing transformative technology solutions for the most visionary companies in the world. This takes imagination, relentless client service, and the tenacity to enable our clients to achieve their goals and delight our customers. Our top tier partnerships with leading-edge technology manufacturers keep us immersed across the broad spectrum of the IT ecosystem. 

You will have the opportunity to work within an industry-leading sales and technical sales team to understand our clients’ needs and craft sustainable roadmaps to achieve their goals. From strategy to fulfillment to managed services, our engineering centric solutions enable our clients to leverage technology to accomplish more than they have ever envisioned. This role has a wired and wireless networking focus. 

What you’ll be doing 

• Designing and implementing single and multi-vendor technology solutions. 
• Acting as a technical lead in technology solutions by mentoring, leading a team on larger projects, and reviewing deliverables. 
• Presenting technology topics at internal education sessions, and industry user group meetings and/or conferences. 
• Operating as a subject matter expert by recommending new technologies, best practices and tools that support the growth of the business. 
• Liaising between pre-sales and delivery teams. 
• Providing design, deployment, and implementation services of single or multi-vendor solutions. 
• Providing input into bid, project, and technical documents. 
• Handling issues escalated by Consultants and Lead Consultants and leading a project team. 

What you have  

• 15+ years of professional experience in large enterprise environments. 
• Ability to assess customer environments, make design and solution recommendations, and troubleshoot multi-vendor issues. 
• Ability to lead and organize a large virtual technical team, with good negotiation skills and people management skills. 
• Solid Understanding of the OSI model, routing and switching protocols, network security, IPv4 networking, subnetting, and operational experience. 
• Experience with Cisco DNA Center deployments. 
• Experience with multiple wireless vendor designs and deployments. 
• Demonstrated confidence to deliver customer-facing discussions. 
• Legally eligible to work in the United States. 

Bonus points 

• Professional networking certifications (ex: CCNP/CCIE or equivalent) 
• Deployment experience with one or more of the following: Cisco, Fortinet, Mist, Aruba 

What you can expect

There’s so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 20,000 people worldwide. In the US, we support some of the country’s best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine, CA; Norcross, GA; Plano, TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta. www.computacenter.com/us