Description
We are seeking a Senior Routing Specialist to support our office in Chicago, IL. As a Technical Solutions Architect (TSA), you will serve as a technical leader and trusted advisor to service providers, enterprise customers, and strategic partners. You will provide deep technical expertise in WAN routing, network infrastructure architecture, optical transport, data center connectivity, and emerging networking technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as a subject matter expert for HPE Networking routing and infrastructure solutions.
- Design and validate scalable WAN, enterprise edge, and data center interconnect architectures.
- Provide technical leadership during customer briefings, workshops, proof-of-concepts, and strategic design discussions.
- Develop reference architectures, solution designs, deployment guidance, and networking best practices.
- Partner with account teams to understand customer requirements and align technical solutions with business outcomes.
- Support partner and field enablement through technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, and training.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Management, Engineering, Professional Services, and Sales to influence product direction and drive customer success.
- Support competitive positioning and technical differentiation of HPE Networking solutions.
- Support large-scale networking opportunities from initial discovery through technical validation and deployment planning.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations for both technical and executive audiences.
Required Technical Expertise:
- Deep hands-on experience with Juniper MX, PTX, and ACX platforms.
- Strong understanding of Service Provider WAN architectures, Enterprise WAN and edge routing, Carrier Ethernet services, Internet peering and transit designs, and Network resiliency and high-availability architectures.
- Expert-level knowledge of BGP, MPLS, IS-IS, OSPF, RSVP-TE and Segment Routing concepts, L2VPN and L3VPN services, and EVPN services.
- General knowledge and experience supporting Data Center Interconnect (DCI), DWDM optical transport networks, Metro and long-haul transport architectures, and Layer 1 transport and wavelength services.
- Working knowledge of Passive Optical Networking (PON), Fiber access architectures, Broadband access technologies, and Enterprise access technologies.
- Experience with network automation frameworks and operational tooling, Python, REST APIs, NETCONF/YANG, Ansible, and Git-based workflows.
Additional Qualifications:
- Experience with EVPN/VXLAN data center fabric architectures.
- Understanding of modern data center networking and cloud connectivity models.
- Experience with network telemetry, observability, and network assurance platforms.
- Familiarity with AI infrastructure networking requirements and high-performance data center architectures.
- Knowledge of security integration technologies, network segmentation, and policy-based networking.
- Experience working with service providers, telecommunications organizations, large enterprises, or strategic technology partners.
Professional Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in networking architecture, systems engineering, consulting, or related technical roles.
- Proven ability to engage directly with customer architects, network engineering teams, technical decision-makers, and executive stakeholders.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical discussions and influence architectural decisions.
- Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional, customer-facing environment.
- Strong ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures.
Success Profile: The successful candidate will be a technically curious, customer-oriented architect who can effectively bridge business objectives and networking technology. This individual will bring deep expertise in routing and transport networking, demonstrate strong architectural and problem-solving capabilities, and be comfortable engaging with audiences ranging from network engineers to executive stakeholders.
What We Can Offer You:
- Health & Wellbeing benefits
- Personal & Professional Development opportunities
- Unconditional Inclusion and flexible work arrangements