Senior Lead Consultant

Senior Lead Consultant- Network Security

Location: Bengaluru, Hybrid working

Experience:- 8yrs+

As a Senior Lead Consultant, you must have minimum 8 years of experience in IT infrastructure and enterprise

networking, with at least 2 years in technical consulting, solution architecture, and your primary responsibility is endto-

end network solutioning, technical consulting for pre-sales and customer engagements. Drive Network deployment

initiatives and projects across all Stratogent networking customers. Ensure alignment of solutions with business goals,

operational standards, and industry best practices. Manage high-priority technical escalations and critical customer

issues. Engage with customer leadership teams on strategic infrastructure discussions to identify the gaps and

improvements.

Technical Leadership

• Lead end-to-end network solution design and consulting engagements for customers.
• Analyze customer business and technical requirements to recommend scalable, secure, and high-performing

solutions.

• Develop High-Level Designs (HLD) and Low-Level Designs (LLD)
• Ensure alignment of solutions with business goals, operational standards, and industry best practices.
• Provide guidance on network transformation, modernization, and optimization initiatives.
• Technical Consultation, POCs for internal or customer solution requirement
• Support capability development within the networking practice
• Provide architectural guidance across hybrid and multi-vendor environments.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend suitable adoption strategies.

About Us

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

Customer Interaction

Act as the primary technical consultant and trusted advisor for customers

Customer engagements like workshops, discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and technical presentations.

Engage with customer leadership teams on strategic infrastructure discussions to identify the gaps and improvements

Manage high-priority technical escalations and critical customer issues

Presales & Business Enablement

Support pre-sales activities including Technical solutioning, RFP/RFI responses, proposal preparation, technical estimations, and solution presentations

Collaborate with sales and account teams to identify business opportunities.

Assist in project scope definition and WBS preparation.

Project & Delivery Leadership

Provide technical leadership during implementation and migration activities.

Work closely with project managers and cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery.

Review project deliverables and ensure adherence to quality standards.

Identify project risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.

Must-Have

Hands on experience in designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise networking solutions across LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, Wireless, Data Center, and Cloud environments.

Strong understanding of secure network architectures, including VPN, Network Access Control (NAC), Load Balancing, and hybrid connectivity.

Proven expertise in network monitoring, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and cross-technology integration

Working experience managing customer, stakeholder relationships and reporting

Must have prior experience of onsite-offshore delivery model and should have directly worked with US/European customers and colleagues

Preferred Vendor Experience:

Palo Alto Networks

Cisco Systems

Juniper Networks

Fortinet

Arista Networks

Good to Have

Good understanding of other infrastructure platforms like Virtualization, Monitoring, Cloud, Security

Relevant industry certifications such as CCNP Enterprise, PCNSE, Fortinet NSE, Azure, or AWS are preferred

Managing IT Infrastructure projects with global teams and remote teams will be a strong plus

Certifications: ITIL,MCSE, Azure/AWS, VCP, etc.

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