Resident Engineer – Service Provider Routing and Switching Design Consultant (Mt Laurel, NJ)

hpe; Albenga; On-site; EUR 106,000 - 244,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness benefits

Career development programs

Inclusive workplace culture

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise seeks an experienced Resident Consultant to design, implement, and support Juniper-based networks for large-scale environments. The role is on-site in Mt. Laurel, NJ with travel to customer offices, requiring expertise in JUNOS CLI, MX/PTX/ACX devices, IP/MPLS, and VPN technologies.

You will train customer personnel, develop procedures, and produce regular project reports while coordinating with HPE Juniper teams on new software features and configurations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of design, implementation, and operation of large-scale IP networks.
• JUNOS CLI experience essential.
• Experience with MX, PTX, ACX routing platforms.
• Strong knowledge of IP services including TCP/IP, MPLS, OSPF/ISIS/BGP.
• Experience with VPNs (MPLS, L3VPN, VPLS) and QoS.
• Automation experience with Ansible/YAML and PyEZ; scripting in Python.

Responsibilities

• Support design and planning of Juniper routing products within customer networks.
• Conduct lab testing and validation of designs, features, and implementations.
• Train customer design/implementation staff on HPE Juniper products.
• Produce regular written status reports on design projects and issues.
• Develop network operating procedures and implementation plans; troubleshoot with JTAC.

Skills

JUNOS CLI

MX/PTX/ACX devices

IP/MPLS fundamentals

BGP/OSPF/ISIS

VPNs & tunneling

Automation: Ansible/YAML

Python scripting

Tools

Ansible

YAML

PyEZ

Python

Job description

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives onfinding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

The Resident Consultant role is a highly technical role, providing post-sales support for network products for our customer. The Resident Consultant will be required to develop and maintain expertise on the products deployed or to be deployed within the customer’s network. The Resident Consultant provides support on network design, certification activities and implementation plans.

This is an on-site Resident Consultant role based out of Mt. Laurel, NJ with travel into customer office.

Role Responsibilities:

• Support design and planning of Juniper MX, PTX and QFX network routing products and associated solutions within the Customer infrastructure
• Carry out testing of new Designs, 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
• Perform Junos software release lab testing and validation at the customers lab
• Test patches and fixes to operating software and to ensure that they are implemented and functioning correctly in the pre-production test network and then live network as implementation plans dictate.
• Hold design and information gathering workshops with the Customer to understand the Customer’s existing network design and technical requirements of new network designs.
• To train the customer’s design, implementation, and support personnel to configure and operate the HPE Juniper Networks products.
• To produce a written summary report on the status of design projects, equipment, and network problems regularly to the customer.
• Developing network operating procedures, configuration standards, and implementation plans for HPE Juniper products.
• Troubleshoot equipment and network problems, and open and track JTAC cases through to problem resolution on pre- and post-production issues.
• To understand the Customer’s organizational structure and become familiar with the Customer’s network implementation and support processes and procedures to help in supporting a network that is available and sustainable.
• To hold technology workshops with the customer to discuss equipment and network problems, and to provide case status updates, including the reasons for any problems encountered and the workarounds and/or solutions that are being tried.
• To assist the customer in developing Network Operating and Equipment Operating Procedures.
• Development and maintenance of fault diagnosis procedures to support effective fault resolution.
• Support the production environment of HPE Juniper products within the customer infrastructure.
• Support ongoing efforts in defining best-practice policies for HPE Juniper product applications used by the customer. (HPE Juniper Business Use Only.)
• The RC will be expected to be a subject matter expert on HPE Juniper’s platforms, software and features and coordinate directly with HPE Juniper on any challenges encountered with new software or features implementation.
• The RC is expected to peer with other employees performing similar resident Consultant roles where lessons learned may help minimize risk associated with major network upgrades or changes in the network.
• The RC will be expected to develop secondary skills in other products in the HPE Juniper product portfolio.

Required Background and Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of design, implementation, and operational experience in large-scale IP networks.
• JUNOS CLI experience.
• Must have large-scale experience with routing devices MX, PTX, and ACX.
• An understanding of the protocols surrounding IP service provider networks. These skills include but are not limited to:
  • TCP/IP and MPLS fundamentals
  • IP/Routing experience (OSPF, ISIS, BGP, MPLS-TE, RSVP, LDP, IPv6, Routing Policy)
  • Routing protocol operation, migration, and scaling mechanisms
  • Routing policies at BGP peering points
  • VPNs and the associated tunneling technologies (MPLS, L3VPN, VPLS, MVPN.)
  • Ethernet switching and 802.1Q, QoS
  • Class of service
• Background in automation with Ansible, YAML, and HPE Juniper PyEZ.
• Experience writing automation scripts in Python.
• Ability to communicate effectively in crises with all levels of an organization from Consultant/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.
• Other tasks and duties as needed to support the customer and/or business.
• Expert-level technical certifications (JNCIS, JNCIP, JNCIE, CCNP, and CCIE) are a strong plus.

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

• We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

• We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

• We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

TCP_05

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 119,500 - 275,000 in New Jersey
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

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