Portfolio Solutioning Specialist 3

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE AND WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Acts as IP technology and solution advocate to customers and CX teams to promote ION routing solutions
• Engages with account teams and end customers to assess customer requirements, defines network architectures and solutions, contributes directly to tenders /customer proposals.
• Takes ownership of the technical and commercial offer building
• Contributes to account strategies and directions closely cooperating with CO teams
• Analyses customer and market requirements, and ensures the ION product group gets systematically updated on market demands to allow product evolution in-line the local customers/ market demands
• Markets: Broadband aggregation, Carrier Ethernet, L2/L3 VPN services, IP Core routing, Security, Cloud and Datacenters, Mobile backhaul, 2G/3G/ 4G and 5G Packet Core, Software Defined Networks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Masters degree with 12+ years of experience as a customer engineer (or Solution expert, technical pre-sales, etc.) in an IP focused (IP routing & Ethernet switching) role or demonstrated equivalence.
• Deep understanding of Telemetry, NETCONF, and Yang models (proprietary and standards)
• Deep understanding of security technologies, including but not limited to IPsec, MACsec, SSL, TLS, and others.
• The candidate must be able to write a Feature Request Documents describing in detail all the software and hardware requirements
• Deep Hardware understanding, from physical ports to how each chipset behaves
• Drive all the interoperability testing across multiple vendors where Nokia is the challenger and needs to integrate with actual vendors
• Hands-on experience with major router vendor operating systems (SROS, IOS, JUNOS, EOS, or others), and modern router and switch hardware and OS architectures

• Familiarity with merchant silicon offerings, architectures, and their uses (Broadcom, Marvell, Cavium, and others)
• Understanding of Optical networking technologies is desired (SONET, OTN, and related technologies)