Contract: Juniper Network Consultant - SSR Expert

Comgent; Colorado Springs (CO); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Comgent seeks a Resident Network Consultant for a 12-month freelance assignment based in Colorado Springs, CO. The role covers Session Smart Routing and service-provider routing, switching and security, with a hybrid work location and 40 hours per week.

You will develop detailed knowledge of the deployed platforms, advise customer teams, and support a reliable production network, including validation of patches and advanced troubleshooting, with occasional travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience implementing and supporting networking products in large-scale ISP environments.
• Proficiency with SSR, TCP/IP, RSVP, Segment Routing, BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, L2/L3VPN, EVPN, pseudowires.
• Comfort with Unix/Linux environments and Juniper operations.
• Automation/scripting; JNCIP/JNCIE/CCNP/CCIE strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert on Juniper platforms and understand the customer network, implementation processes and support procedures.
• Test new designs, features and functionality in the laboratory, and develop implementation plans that verify correct operation in production.
• Validate operating-system patches and fixes across pre-production, test and live networks as implementation plans require.
• Troubleshoot equipment and network problems, initiate Juniper JTAC cases and track issues through to resolution.
• Run information-gathering workshops, produce regular written reports and train design, implementation and support personnel.
• Share lessons from major upgrades and network changes with engineering colleagues, and develop secondary skills across the products in the network.

Skills

Juniper expertise

ISP networking

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Juniper MX

Juniper EX

Juniper SRX

Unix/Linux

Job description

Comgent seeks a Resident Network Consultant for a 12-month freelance assignment based in Colorado Springs, CO. The role covers Session Smart Routing and service-provider routing, switching and security, with a hybrid work location and 40 hours per week.

You will develop detailed knowledge of the deployed platforms, advise customer teams, and support a reliable production network, including validation of patches and advanced troubleshooting, with occasional travel as needed.