Network Engineer

Linnk Group; New Jersey; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Linnk Group is seeking a highly technical Resident Consultant to provide post-sales support for Juniper-based networks at customer sites in New Jersey. You will develop expertise across network technologies, supporting design, testing, implementation planning, and ongoing operations.

You will lead workshops, train customer teams to configure and operate Juniper products, and produce regular reports on project status and issues. This on-site role includes travel to customer offices as required.

Qualifications

• Five+ years designing and operating large IP networks.
• Hands-on Junos CLI experience.
• Extensive Juniper MX/PTX/ACX deployments.
• Strong service provider networking and routing knowledge.
• Experience with MPLS, VPNs and L3VPN/MPLS transport.
• Automation and scripting for network tasks.

Responsibilities

• Support design and planning of Juniper routing solutions in customer infra.
• Lab testing of designs and creation of deployment verification plans.
• Lead workshops to gather requirements and share updates.
• Train customer teams on Juniper products and operations.
• Produce reports on design progress, equipment status, and issues.
• Develop operating procedures and configuration standards.
• Troubleshoot and coordinate vendor support cases to resolution.
• Collaborate with other consultants to reduce risk in upgrades.
• Expand expertise across additional networking products.

Skills

IP networking

Network design & implementation

Service provider networking

Routing protocols

MPLS/BGP/OSPF

VPN/L3VPN

Ethernet switching

Network automation

Python scripting

Incident communication

Tools

Junos CLI

Ansible

Python

Job description

Working arrangement: On-site, with travel to customer offices as required

Overview

We are seeking a highly technical Resident Consultant to provide post-sales support for network products deployed within a customer’s infrastructure.

You will develop and maintain expertise across the customer’s network technologies, supporting network design, certification activities, testing, implementation planning and ongoing operations.

Role Responsibilities

• Support the design and planning of Juniper MX, PTX and QFX routing and switching solutions within the customer’s infrastructure.
• Test new designs, features and functionality in a laboratory environment, developing implementation and verification plans for deployment into the live network.
• Perform Junos software release testing and validation within the customer’s laboratory.
• Test software patches and fixes, verifying correct operation in pre-production and live environments in line with implementation plans.
• Lead design and information-gathering workshops to understand existing network architecture and new technical requirements.
• Train customer design, implementation and support teams to configure and operate Juniper network products.
• Produce regular written reports covering design projects, equipment status and network issues.
• Develop network operating procedures, configuration standards and implementation plans.
• Troubleshoot equipment and network issues, opening and tracking vendor technical support cases through to resolution.
• Understand the customer’s organisational structure, network implementation processes and support procedures to support network availability and sustainability.
• Lead technical workshops covering network issues, case updates, root causes, workarounds and proposed solutions.
• Assist in developing network and equipment operating procedures.
• Develop and maintain fault diagnosis procedures to support effective resolution.
• Support Juniper technologies within the customer’s production environment.
• Define best-practice policies for the use of network products and features.
• Act as a subject matter expert on relevant platforms, software and features, coordinating directly with the technology vendor to resolve implementation challenges.
• Collaborate with other resident consultants to share lessons learned and reduce risks associated with major network upgrades and changes.
• Develop expertise across additional products within the relevant networking portfolio.

Required Background and Qualifications

• Minimum five years’ experience designing, implementing and operating large-scale IP networks.
• Hands-on experience with the Junos command-line interface.
• Large-scale deployment and operational experience with Juniper MX, PTX and ACX routing platforms.
• Strong understanding of service provider networking, including:
• TCP/IP and MPLS fundamentals.
• OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MPLS-TE, RSVP, LDP, IPv6 and routing policy.
• Routing protocol operation, migration and scaling.
• Routing policies at BGP peering points.
• VPN and tunnelling technologies, including MPLS, L3VPN, VPLS and MVPN.
• Ethernet switching, 802.1Q, quality of service and class of service.
• Network automation experience using Ansible, YAML and Juniper PyEZ.
• Experience developing automation scripts in Python.
• Ability to communicate effectively during critical incidents with technical, operational and executive stakeholders, including CIO and CISO audiences.
• Ability to interpret complex requirements and deliver solutions aligned with best practice.
• Experience supporting major network upgrades, maintenance windows and changes.
• Strong customer-facing, communication and presentation skills.
• Willingness to undertake additional responsibilities required to support the customer and business.

Desirable Qualifications

• Relevant networking certifications, such as JNCIS, JNCIP, JNCIE, CCNP or CCIE.