Principal Technical Consultant, Cloud Networking (Remote) at AHEAD

Responsibilities:

• Provide mentorship, coaching, and professional development opportunities to team members, empowering them to grow and excel in their roles.
• Manage a team of 6 to 8 technical consultants responsible for oversight and escalation support on team members projects
• Work with delivery leadership to ensure successful project outcomes using business defined KPI’s
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, at the highest quality standards while exceeding client expectations.
• Design and implement complex, mission-critical transformational enterprise grade technical solutions for clients.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, drive business growth, and identify opportunities for upselling and cross-selling
• Develop high quality deliverables and presentations for Client engineering teams and senior leaders, this can include both technical documentation and non-technical documentation.
• Collaborate with clients to understand their technical challenges and develop tailored solutions to address their needs
• Create and present solution designs, options, ideas, and innovations to clients’ senior leadership teams.
• Develop and maintain Technical Roadmaps and Services Portfolio.
• Actively lead collaboration within our technical communities

Qualifications:

• Experience and ability to “jump on a whiteboard” in front of a customer to develop a solution to a business / technology goal or challenge.
• Strong consulting and business acumen
• Previous technical oversight and leadership experience in a consulting environment
• Previous experience working in Salesforce and or PowerBI for KPI tracking
• 10+ years in IT, with at least 5+ years specialized in Cloud Networking and DevOps. In-depth knowledge of BGP, OSPF, VPNs, Direct Connect/ExpressRoute, Load Balancing, and container networking (Kubernetes).
• Expert-level credentials such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Cisco CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure or Palo Alto Certified Solutions Engineer
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in Terraform or CloudFormation to build reproducible, hardened network stacks.
• Hands-on experience in programming with Java, Python or any development language.
• Excellent written & verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Leading the end-to-end design of scalable, resilient, and secure cloud networking architectures (e.g., Spine-Leaf, Hub-and-Spoke) across multi-cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.