Solutions Architect - Presales (Enterprise Networking & Wireless)

About the role

Ingram Micro is hiring a Solutions Architect for its Aruba presales team in Chennai. The role delivers end-to-end enterprise networking and wireless solutions, working closely with sales, channel partners and enterprise customers to design, present and win technical proposals.

Key responsibilities

• Engage with sales, channel partners and customers to gather business and technical requirements
• Design campus LAN, WLAN and branch/WAN solutions, delivering HLDs, LLDs and BoQs aligned to OEM best practices
• Deliver solution presentations, demos and architecture walkthroughs, and support wired and wireless PoCs
• 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 handover, maintain design documentation and guide junior engineers

Required profile

• 6-8 years of experience as a pre-sales solutions engineer delivering enterprise networking and wireless solutions
• Bachelor's degree in engineering (BE/B.Tech) or equivalent
• OEM and vendor-neutral certifications such as Aruba and Juniper (as applicable)

Required skills

• L2/L3 switching and routing on Aruba CX and Juniper EX/QFX platforms
• VLAN design, segmentation, inter-VLAN routing, MLAG, VSF, Virtual Chassis, LACP and Spanning Tree
• Aruba and Ruckus wireless (Aruba Central, ClearPass, SmartZone, Cloud Wi-Fi), RF design, site surveys, capacity planning and 802.1X
• Juniper SRX routing, SD-WAN, MPLS to internet migration, VPNs, NAC with ClearPass and secure BYOD
• Ability to deliver HLDs, LLDs, BoQs and PoCs, and to write TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ICMP troubleshooting guides