Senior Cisco Network Solutions Consultant-Freelancing

Job Description: Senior Cisco Network Solutions Consultant Location: United States

Experience: 12–15 years

Role Overview We are looking for a US-based Senior Cisco Network Solutions Consultant to support enterprise networking services, solution design, presales, infrastructure modernization, and managed services opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and support Cisco enterprise networking solutions across campus, branch, data center, wireless, routing, switching, and SD-WAN.
• Lead network assessments, infrastructure refresh, EOL replacement, migration, and modernization initiatives.
• Develop HLDs, LLDs, implementation plans, effort estimates, SOWs, and technical proposals.
• Support presales activities, customer workshops, RFP/RFI responses, and technical solutioning.
• Plan and coordinate deployments, configuration, testing, migration, and customer handover.
• Support managed network services, including SLAs, KPIs, incident management, and service improvement.
• Work with multivendor technologies, including HPE Aruba, Extreme Networks, Palo Alto, and Fortinet.
• Support US commercial and public sector customer engagements.

Required Skills & Experience

• 12–15 years of enterprise networking experience, with strong Cisco expertise.
• Hands-on knowledge of routing, switching, wireless, SD-WAN, and data center networking.
• Experience in network architecture, migration, refresh, and large-scale deployments.
• Strong presales, technical scoping, effort estimation, and customer-facing consulting skills.
• Understanding of managed services and network operations.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• US enterprise customer or system integrator experience preferred.
• CCNP/CCIE or equivalent Cisco certifications preferred.