Juniper Resident Engineer

Duration: Expected to be 12 months contract with possible extensions.

Location: Little Rock, AK. or Remote USA

10% (1 trip per quarter)

Pay Range: $70/hr.-$75/hr. The pay rate may differ depending on your skills, education, experience, and other qualifications.

Featured Benefits:

• Medical Insurance in compliance with the ACA
• 401(k)
•  Sick leave in compliance with applicable state, federal, and local laws

Job Description (External Field)

Responsibilities:

• Technical support to the customer may require the Resident Engineer to:
•  Understand the customer’s organizational structure and become familiar with the customer’s network implementation and support processes and procedures to help in designing a network that is available and sustainable.
• To hold network information gathering workshops with the Customer to understand the Customer’s existing network design and technical requirements of new network designs.
•  Carry out testing of new tools, features, and functionality as required by the customer in a laboratory environment and to help develop plans to implement and verify that they are operating correctly in the live network.
• Test patches and fixes to operating software to ensure that they are implemented and functioning correctly in the pre-production test network and then live network as implementation plans dictate.
• Build and execute Test Plans and Certification support for new equipment deployment.
•  Support ongoing efforts to define best practice policies for Juniper product applications the customer uses.
•  To peer with other employees performing similar Resident Engineering roles where lessons learned may help minimize the risk associated with major network upgrades or changes in the network.
•  The RE will be expected to develop secondary skills in other products in the Juniper product portfolio.

Focal Technologies:

•  JUNOS CLI experience across Junos and Junos-Evo platforms (e.g., MX, PTX, ACX, etc.)
•  An understanding of the protocols surrounding IP service provider networks. These skills include but are not limited to:  
• IP/Routing experience (OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MPLS-TE, RSVP, LDP, IPv6, Routing Policy, etc.)
• VPNs and the associated tunneling technologies (EVPN, L3VPN, VPLS, etc.)
• An understanding of subscriber management functionality (e.g., DHCP, PPPoE)
• Must be able to communicate effectively and technically with internal Support, Escalation, and Engineering teams.
• Automation experience (e.g., Python, etc.)
• Spirent/Ixia experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with Nokia Deepfield and Nokia BNG is a plus

Minimum Qualifications:

• 6 years of related experience
• BS (or equivalent experience)
• Broad networking product and protocol knowledge and expertise.

Other Information:

• Travel requirements for the position: up to 10% per year.