Resident Consultant/Network Architect
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Job description
The Resident Consultant is an integral part of our mission within the enterprise sector, providing pre & post-sales support of Juniper Networks products. You will be part of a customer account that has experienced high, steady growth. You will be the trusted advisor to our customers working on-site supporting our mission to help them quickly and completely adopt the Juniper portfolio of products. This is a highly technical role, requiring expert-level skill sets on our products and solutions deployed within the customer's environment. You will be responsible for working side-by-side with supporting the customer's operations.
*You must be able to work on site at the client site in the San Francisco airport area.
Role Responsibilities:
- Hold network information gathering workshops to understand the Customer's existing network design and technical requirements of new network designs.
- Troubleshoot network design and architecture issues.
- Provide network design leadership, assisting in identifying and building solutions.
- Analyze network and device configurations.
- Test product features and functionality
- Provide deployment guidance to ensure consistent implementations with design specifications.
- Facilitate informal workshops to transfer knowledge to engineering staff.
- Apply industry best practices to network design, planning, and implementation.
- Apply extensive industry experience to optimize network performance and proactively analyze potential enhancements.
- Evaluate technical specifications for interoperability.
- Troubleshoot equipment and network problems, work with JTAC to resolve problems on pre- and post-production issues.
- Produce a written summary report of the status of Design projects, equipment and network problems regularly to the Customer
- Train the Customer's design, implementation, and support personnel to configure and operate the Juniper Networks products
- Assist in developing Network Operating and Equipment Operating Procedures
- Support the production environment of Juniper products within the Customer infrastructure
- Support ongoing efforts in defining best practice policies for Juniper product applications used by Customer
Requirements
- Ability to communicate effectively in crises with all levels of an organization from Engineering/Operations to CIO/CISO audiences.
- Ability to refine and translate complex requirements and execute best practice solutions.
- Assisted with major network upgrades, maintenance windows, and changes in the customer network.
- Strong customer interface and presentation skills.
- Customer education - TOI's and Lunch & Learns.
- Other tasks and duties as needed to support the customer and/or business, * Minimum 10 years of design, implementation, and operational experience in large-scale IP networks.
- JUNOS CLI experience.
- Must have large-scale experience with Juniper hardware (MX, EX, QFX, SRX and MIST products)
- EVPN-VXLAN Campus & Data Center Juniper switching fabric experience
- SRX high-end/mid-range/branch experience (FW policy, IPS, IPSec VPN, HA clustering)
- Experience with core routing BGP, OSPF protocols.
- Experience with design and/or deployment of routing and switching products within the Customer infrastructure.
- Experience using, evaluating, and developing appropriate engineering design tools and software packages.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Extensive experience EVPN/MPLS. E-Line (VPWS), E-LAN (VPLS), L3VPN over MPLS, L2VPN over MPLS, IS-IS, RSVP-TE, LDP
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language. Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at business unit and executive levels.
- JNCIE Certifications are highly preferred.
Benefits & conditions
"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
- United States of America: Annual Salary USD 135,500 - 275,000 in California The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."