Solution Architect
Description
About Us
Versa’s mission is to secure anywhere, anytime access to anything. We are a well funded, pre-IPO company that is a market leader in SASE, SSE and SD-WAN. We are unique as have a platform that simplifies, secures and modernizes your infrastructure by converging security and networking at any edge – Cloud, WAN or LAN. Our platform provides a broad set of capabilities to address multiple use cases and is delivered either via the cloud and on-premises. We also offer multiple options to consume our solutions as either do-it-yourself or managed service.
Our goal is to deliver the best technology, maintain our rapid pace of innovation and deliver best support that provides unprecedented business. Our platform can be used for many use cases, including:
- Full software-defined branch
- Secure SD-WAN for any branch office, store, corporate sites, data centers and private clouds
- Security Services Edge (SSE) that delivers complete set of cloud security services
- Unified SASE solution for branches, hybrid workforce, IoT and secure multi-cloud networking
- Next-generation managed services for service providers.
Thousands of enterprises across multiple industry verticals and geographies use Versa today. Customers include companies like Adobe, Visa, Cargill, CapitalOne, BP, Walmart, J.P. Morgan Chase. Many large and small Service Providers offer managed services based on Versa’s platform.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an emerging force in these hot market categories.
We are looking for a passionate, entrepreneurial, and tech-savvy Solution Architect to help our customers and partners evaluate, adopt and expand the use of our technology.
Role and Responsibilities
- Evangelize technical leadership to our customers and partners.
- Provide architectural design services for state-of-art SDWAN/SASE deployments, including HLD/LLD documentation.
- Perform hands-on tests to validate customer proof-of-concept setups for Versa security product designs and deployments.
- Provide Professional Services on an assignment basis to strategic customers.
- Author whitepapers, knowledge base articles, and other customer/partner-facing content.
Qualifications
Necessary skills required for the role include:
- 8+ Years of relevant industry experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Electronics, Computer Application or equivalent
- Being well-versed in SDWAN design, deployment, and migrations.
- Proven work experience with solutions around Information Security, Remote Access Security, Web Security, and Endpoint Security (XDR, EDR, etc)
- Operational knowledge of next-gen firewalls/UTMs, IDS/IPS and malware prevention systems
- Thorough understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols
- Proven work experience working with solutions around ZTNA, DLP, CASB, RBI, and UEBA.
- Prior experience in Routing and Switching.
- Knowledge of Linux administration.
- Shell scripting, python scripting knowledge.
- Great analytical thinking.
- Ability to think full stack when it comes to problem-solving.
- Ability to learn new technology quickly.
- Excellent hands-on skills in Information Security products and technologies.
- Willingness to help customers, peers and other team members at any time.
Desired Skills:
- Experience in planning and designing or operating service providers or large enterprise security tools.
- In-depth understanding of TCP/IP protocol stack and operation.
- Experience in configuration and troubleshooting networks and security appliances.
- Certifications like CEH, GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification), and CompTIA Security+ will be added advantages.
- SIEM (ArcSight, QRadar or any industry-leading tools) administration for standard and Custom Log.
Our Benefits
Versa Networks is a small but rapidly growing organization. It is built by people with vast experience in the networking industry. We are a pragmatic team with a healthy work-life balance. We offer competitive compensation packages with pre-IPO equity. Additionally, we offer a quality of life benefit to everyone in an inspiring environment with skilled and passionate co-workers. Our exciting company culture offers a great place to work and most important, to have fun.