Lead Consultant Prof Services ATC

Overview

This position requires client location/office presence a minimum of 1 day per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.

A senior-level consultant is often engaged as the technical primary project lead and architect. This seasoned consultant should have a track record of strong leadership, professional business acumen, polished oral and written communication, documentation and presentation skills. Also, he/she should be well-rounded and adept at leading consultative engagements, assessing network environments, and architecting designs for data center and network solutions, and creating meaningful, cohesive deliverables.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Collaborate, confer and provide consulting services and manage project activities from client identification through final invoicing.
• Work on billable consulting service projects.
• Demonstrate broad product knowledge with the customer within a specific discipline.
• Work independently on highly complex projects, or may work in a team as assigned by the project leader.
• Technical responsibilities will include problem identification, system architecture definition, hardware/software specification and/or design, implementation, testing, client training, and deployment.
• Lead all technical aspects of delivery, customer satisfaction, and accurate timekeeping for billing purposes, on projects where the Consultant is the only technical resource or lead technical resource.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge of principles, theories and concepts in applicable discipline, plus high level of working knowledge in other related fields. May assist less experienced peers when needed.
• Work is performed under minimal direction.
• As a member of a team of advanced infrastructure consultants and lead consultants, you will use in-depth knowledge of networking to design and implement solutions for our clients.

• Responsible for consulting project activities from client identification through final invoicing.
• Fulfills billable consulting service projects.
• Acts as the subject matter expert within a specific discipline.
• Typically leads an engagement team, consisting of other Consultants and/or Sr. Consultant, or may be the sole consulting resource on a project.
• Technical responsibilities include problem identification, system architecture definition, hardware/software specification and/or design, implementation, testing, client training, and deployment.
• Typically viewed as a mentor or coach.
• Creates recommendation and implements new methods, techniques and/or procedures.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in the planning, design and implementation of complex networks as part of a large enterprise network team, or within the professional services or network integration environments.
• Planning, design and integration of secure network technology.
• A positive, energetic attitude and a serious desire to have an impact on your company and the industry.
• Accomplished at developing Visio designs/diagrams and documenting professional, cohesive deliverables. Sample deliverables will be requested as evidence of documentation skills.
• Verifiable strong ethics, trustworthiness, accountability and reliability in being resourceful and self-directed while possessing both a positive leadership and collaborative teamwork style.

Technical Skills

• Thorough understanding of internetworking technologies and how technologies are deployed in complex, global networks. IPv4 and IPv6 experience.
• WAN and preferably iWAN Expertise – Transport and Access Planning, Design and Deployment Experience
• Experience in analysis and selection of transport and access technologies including MPLS, Private Line, Hybrid WAN, Internet Complex, Ethernet, Internet VPN, DWDM, and wireless.
• MPLS Integration including MPLS equipment & transport selection, QoS, MPLS IP Routing and MPLS migration planning/transition
• LAN Expertise – Planning, Design and Deployment Experience
• Experience in equipment selection, sizing and detailed engineered design
• Data center expertise including core, distribution and segmentation
• Wireless equipment selection, sizing and detailed engineered design
• Layer 2 vs Layer 3 segmentation
• Virtualization using path segmentation (GRE, VRF-Lite, L3VPN’s, L2VPN’s)
• IP Routing – Planning, Design & Deployment Experience
• IP Routing Protocols – OSPF, BGP, M-BGP, EIGRP capabilities and corresponding configurations.
• IP Addressing – NAT, DNS/DHCP, Address Summarization as it impacts IP addressing and IP routing.
• Data Center Expertise – DC Core Network Planning, Design and Deployment Experience
• Experience in analysis, design, engineering and deployment of DC core networks built on legacy architectures and fabric enabled architectures.
• Experience with Load Balancing, DNS/DHCP, NAT, WANx and Proxies
• Experience with separation and segmentation technologies (VLAN, VRF)
• Experience with network virtualization technologies
• Experience with Cisco ACI SDN technologies
• Network Equipment – Strong knowledge of features, functionality and configurations for Cisco Systems, Nortel, Juniper, Extreme Networks, etc.
• Firewall design, configuration, network segmentation and implementation experience, such as Cisco ASA, CheckPoint, Fortinet, etc.
• Understanding of load-balancing, F5 experience is a plus.
• Knowledge and experience with SDN, Juniper, Velocloud, VMware/Virtualization, and/or IoT is also a significant plus.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree
• Industry Certifications CCIE, or proven equivalent experience with CCNA, CCNP or CISSP
• Very strong leadership, documentation, project management skills.
• Ability to lead, coordinate complex networking engagements for very large environments in a nebulous or unfamiliar setting.
• Ability to travel for engagement requirements.

Compensation and Benefits

Our Lead Consultant ATC earns between $120,200 - $201,800 + $30,000 in commissions yearly if all sales goals are met. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training. AT&T offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, paid time off, and discounts on products and services.

Joining and Perks

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (at least 23 days of vacation per year and 9 company-designated holidays)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Additional sick leave beyond state/local law requirements
• Adoption Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) and wellness programs
• Employee discounts on AT&T mobility plans and services

A career with AT&T is a global leadership opportunity offering rewards and the chance to contribute to transformational initiatives. AT&T will consider qualified applicants in accordance with federal, state, and local laws. Ready to close the deal on a career with AT&T? Apply today!

Typical weekly hours: 40
Time Type: Regular

Location: Alpharetta, Georgia; Bloomington, Minnesota; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Kirkwood, Missouri; Los Angeles, California; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; San Francisco, California

AT&T is an equal opportunity employer and will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.