Support pre-sales and assessment activities for enterprise clients
Serve as a trusted technical resource during customer discovery, infrastructure assessments, and solution development engagements
Conduct technical discovery sessions and infrastructure assessments for enterprise data center environments
Evaluate current-state compute, network, virtualization, and storage architectures
Perform Cisco-focused assessments across: Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus, Cisco ACI, Cisco MDS, Cisco Intersight
Identify technical risks, lifecycle concerns, performance bottlenecks, and modernization opportunities
Develop assessment findings, recommendations, and executive-level reports
Support solution architects and sales teams during customer engagements
Participate in customer workshops, design reviews, and strategy sessions
Assist with scoping projects, developing statements of work (SOWs), and estimating implementation efforts
Provide guidance on data center modernization, compute refresh initiatives, virtualization platforms, hybrid cloud connectivity, and network and storage integration
Deliver architecture recommendations and migration strategies aligned with client business objectives
Serve as a subject matter expert during technical presentations and customer discussions

3+ years of enterprise data center engineering or consulting
Deep hands-on expertise with: Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus, Cisco ACI
Strong understanding of VMware environments
Data center networking
Compute and storage infrastructure
Disaster recovery and high availability design
Experience performing infrastructure assessments and technical discovery workshops
Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and executive stakeholders
Experience supporting pre-sales and solution development activities
Ability to travel throughout the Eastern United States as required

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