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# Solution Engineer

- **Company:** The Summit
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $155,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Information Technology Consulting, Data Centers, Linux, Disaster Recovery, Hyper-V, Kernel-Based Virtual Machine, Microsoft Software, Cloud Services, Virtualization Technology, Xen Servers, Vmware
- **Published:** September 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://ats.rippling.com/summithq/jobs/fc39d53b-422b-4253-a381-1cc3b3e24ecc

## About the Role

· A consultative pre-sales experience that builds credibility, strengthens customer relationships, and supports successful business outcomes.

· Strong technical partnership across Sales, Architecture, Product, Delivery, and other teams throughout complex opportunities.

· Clear handoffs from pre-sales to implementation that reduce ambiguity, identify risks early, and create shared understanding of the solution.

· Technical leadership that improves solution quality, strengthens team capabilities, and contributes to the continued evolution of Summit's Solution Engineering practice.

You'll Thrive in This Role If You:

· Bring 6+ years of experience in Solution Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Technical Consulting, Pre-Sales Engineering, or a related customer-facing technical role.

· Have experience designing solutions within B2B technology, IT consulting, managed services, cloud infrastructure, data center, or similar environments.

· Can lead complex technical discovery and turn ambiguous customer needs into clear, actionable solution recommendations.

· Bring broad technical knowledge across infrastructure technologies and the depth to recognize when additional expertise is needed.

· Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical, business, and executive audiences.

· Can evaluate competing technical approaches and confidently explain the tradeoffs, risks, and business implications.

· Build credibility with customers through technical expertise, curiosity, sound judgment, and a consultative approach.

· Work effectively across Sales, Delivery, Product, Engineering, Finance, and other teams to solve complex customer challenges.

· Can manage multiple complex opportunities while maintaining strong attention to detail, quality, and customer commitments.

· Enjoy sharing knowledge, supporting other Solution Engineers, and helping raise the technical capability of the broader team.

· Navigate ambiguity independently and know when an opportunity requires broader technical or organizational involvement.

Bonus Points:

· Experience working within an ISP, data center, managed services provider, cloud service provider, or technology consulting environment.

· Experience designing solutions for complex or enterprise customer environments.

· Hands-on experience with Linux and/or Windows systems administration.

· Experience with AWS, Azure, or other hyperscale cloud platforms.

· Familiarity with virtualization technologies such as VMware, Hyper-V, Xen, or KVM.

· Experience designing backup, disaster recovery, networking, infrastructure, or managed services solutions.

· Industry certifications across cloud, networking, Linux, Microsoft, virtualization, or related technologies.

## Description

Leads technical discovery and solution design for complex enterprise opportunities throughout the pre-sales process. Partners with Sales and cross-functional teams to create secure, scalable infrastructure, cloud, hosting, and managed services solutions. Presents architectures and recommendations, responds to proposals, evaluates risks and economics, addresses objections, and ensures effective implementation handoffs. Provides technical guidance to other Solution Engineers and improves standards, documentation, and solution quality.
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At Summit, we build and operate the infrastructure behind some of the most critical applications in regulated industries. The work is complex, expectations are high, and the environments we support require precision and thoughtful execution.

We specialize in enterprise-class Application Hosting, Managed Services, and Cloud Solutions, with deep expertise in compliance, security, and performance. Our focus is simple: make the complex manageable and deliver technology that works - reliably, securely, and at scale.

Location: Western U.S. The role is best served close to Summit's data center markets - Seattle, the Bay Area, Phoenix, Denver, and Dallas - where you'll be near the infrastructure and the accounts you're supporting.

Every customer conversation is an opportunity to build trust. The best solutions don't begin with technology - they begin with understanding the business problem, asking the right questions, and designing an approach that creates lasting value.

As a Senior Solution Engineer, you'll serve as a senior technical partner throughout the pre-sales process, helping customers navigate complex business and technology challenges and translating those needs into thoughtful, scalable solutions. Working closely with Sales and teams across Summit, you'll lead technical discovery and solution design for complex opportunities while bringing the experience and judgment to challenge assumptions, evaluate tradeoffs, and guide customers toward the right approach.

Success in this role isn't just about designing the right technical solution. It's about earning customer confidence, bringing clarity to complex decisions, and ensuring what we sell is technically sound, commercially viable, and ready to deliver.

What You'll Do:

· Lead technical discovery and solution design for complex customer opportunities, uncovering business objectives, technical requirements, constraints, dependencies, and risks.

· Serve as the primary technical advisor throughout the sales process, partnering closely with Sales from initial discovery through solution development and close.

· Translate complex customer requirements into secure, scalable Summit solutions that align with technical best practices and our service portfolio.

· Guide customers through technical decisions by asking thoughtful questions, challenging assumptions, and clearly communicating options, tradeoffs, and recommendations.

· Develop and present solution architectures, technical recommendations, demonstrations, and presentations to technical, business, and executive audiences.

· Lead technical responses for proposals, statements of work, and other complex customer engagements.

· Anticipate and address technical objections, risks, and solution gaps throughout the opportunity lifecycle.

· Partner with Finance and internal teams to evaluate solution economics, cost models, and commercial viability for complex opportunities.

· Bring together the right technical resources across Solution Engineering, Architecture, Product, Delivery, and other teams when opportunities require specialized expertise.

· Provide technical guidance and support to other Solution Engineers, sharing expertise and helping strengthen solution quality across the team.

· Stay current on Summit's products and services, industry trends, emerging technologies, and evolving customer needs.

· Contribute to the tools, standards, documentation, reference architectures, and practices that improve consistency and effectiveness across Solution Engineering.

What You'll Deliver:

· High-quality solution designs for complex customer environments that balance business needs, technical requirements, risk, and long-term scalability.

· Trusted technical guidance that helps customers confidently evaluate options and make informed technology decisions.

· Clear, compelling technical presentations and recommendations for audiences ranging from engineers to executive stakeholders.

· Accurate and complete solution scopes that set Delivery teams up for successful implementation.


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