Solutions Architect - Presales (Arista/Ruckus)

About the role

Ingram Micro is hiring a Solutions Architect for its presales team in Mumbai, focused on Arista and Ruckus products. The role works with sales, channel partners and enterprise customers to turn their business needs into scalable, secure network architectures, and delivers HLDs, LLDs, BoQs, PoCs and winning technical proposals.

Key responsibilities

• Engage sales, channel partners and customers to gather business and technical requirements
• Design end-to-end enterprise network solutions (campus LAN, WLAN, branch/WAN) and deliver HLDs, LLDs and BoQs aligned to OEM best practices
• Act as a trusted technical advisor, giving solution presentations, demos and architecture walkthroughs
• Support wired and wireless PoCs and turn technical designs into clear business value propositions
• Lead technical responses to RFPs/RFIs/RFQs, including compliance matrices, solution narratives and scope documents
• Support deal qualification, pricing discussions, OEM registrations and solution validation with distributors and OEM teams
• Coordinate with professional services and deployment teams for a smooth handover, and share design documentation and guidance with junior engineers and delivery teams

Required profile

• 4-6 years of experience designing and positioning enterprise networking and wireless solutions across mixed OEM environments (Aruba, Juniper, Ruckus)
• Strong background in switching, routing, wireless, security integration and SD-WAN
• Bachelor's degree in engineering (BE/B.Tech) or equivalent

Required skills

• L2/L3 switching and routing on Aruba CX and Juniper EX/QFX platforms
• VLAN design, segmentation, inter-VLAN routing and traffic optimization
• High availability designs with MLAG, VSF, Virtual Chassis, LACP and Spanning Tree
• Campus and branch network architecture, scaling and modernization
• Aruba and Ruckus wireless (Aruba Central, ClearPass, SmartZone, Cloud Wi-Fi); RF design, site surveys, capacity planning and Wi-Fi security (802.1X, captive portals)
• SD-WAN, Juniper SRX routing, MPLS to internet migration and VPNs
• Network security integration, NAC with ClearPass and secure BYOD access
• TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ICMP fundamentals and wireless security integration with AD, DNS, DHCP and NTP
• OEM and vendor-neutral certifications such as Aruba and Juniper (as applicable)