6WIND is a leading networking software company and the worldwide market leader for vRouter solutions. 6WIND software is deployed globally by Service Providers, System Integrators and Tier-1 OEMs allowing customers to replace expensive hardware with software and virtualization for routing and security use cases. 6WIND has a global presence with Headquarters currently based in Paris, France and in Santa Clara, California. It covers a worldwide customer base in more than 50 countries.
We are looking for an experienced, technical and relationship capable Channels & Alliances Solution Architect that has excellent experience in Networking technology in both Service Provider and Enterprise markets.
We are looking for a successful Channels & Alliances Senior Solution Architect who:
- Has extensive Networking Experience in both Service Provider and Enterprise markets
- Has excellent presentation skills, and is experienced developing content from scratch such as Training, Solution Definitions, Use Cases, Architecture Diagrams and White Papers
- A good understanding of IoT, SD-WAN, SDN, SASE technologies, architectures and solutions. As well as the market for these solutions and competitors
- Successful in building technical relationships within Customers, Partners & Alliances
- Comfortable and skilled at presenting to large audiences, including Industry Events
- Drive and deliver Partner Technical Enablement
- Continues to learn new technologies and market requirements
- Extremely organized, excellent time management skills: Excel, PowerPoint, Sales force
- Forecasting, planning and reporting skills in relation to partner and alliance deals; influences partner on funnel creation and management
- Technical prowess and curiosity to know enough of the technical solutions of 6WIND / Networking
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 5+ Years in Pre-Sales Engineering roles
- Fluent in multiple languages including English
- Familiar with virtualization (KVM, VMWare) and container environments (docker, Kubernetes)
- Experienced in Ansible, Terraform, Python, REST API’s and other tools for scripting and programmability of infrastructure desireable
- Excellent knowledge of ISP network architectures (fixed and mobile), data centers, and enterprise networking
- Good knowledge of data and control plane networking protocols (BGP, OSPF, VLAN, VXLAN, IPsec, etc)
- Be very familiar with Linux OS, especially Linux networking configuration