Network Operations Engineer - Hybrid, Juniper & SD-WAN

Hamilton Barnes; Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Health insurance

Paid time off

Hybrid working

Hands-on engineering project exposure

Career progression

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes is seeking a Network Operations Engineer in Massachusetts. The role centers on owning live network services and advancing toward a network engineering position, with work on Juniper infrastructure, carrier interconnections, and managed services.

You’ll troubleshoot, provision services, and support SD-WAN and observability deployments. You will engage in equipment evaluations, new service roll-outs, field deployments, and hands-on projects while collaborating with carriers and

Qualifications

• Three+ years supporting service provider or customer networks.
• Strong Layer 1–3 knowledge, including fibre optics, VLANs, MPLS/VPLS, BGP and OSPF.
• Hands-on experience configuring and troubleshooting network hardware.
• Confident communication with customers, carriers and technical teams.
• A proactive approach, strong problem-solving skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Availability for hybrid working, occasional site visits and rotating on-call cover.
• Juniper/JUNOS, AWS/Azure connectivity, SD-WAN and SIP/voice experience would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot connectivity issues across customer equipment, carrier circuits and core network.
• Coordinate escalations with carriers and the outsourced NOC.
• Provision and activate Internet, point-to-point and cloud services across core and carrier NNI infrastructure.
• Configure, test and support routers, switches and network demarcation equipment.
• Support engineering projects, including equipment selection and monitoring deployments.
• Complete occasional circuit turn-ups, hardware installations and local site visits.
• Maintain network documentation and participate in a light, rotating on-call schedule.

Skills

3+ years service provider networks

Layer 1-3 networking

BGP & OSPF

Hands-on hardware configuration

Customer communication

Hybrid work readiness

Juniper/JUNOS experience

Tools

Juniper JUNOS

AWS/Azure connectivity

SD-WAN

Job description

Hamilton Barnes is seeking a Network Operations Engineer in Massachusetts. The role centers on owning live network services and advancing toward a network engineering position, with work on Juniper infrastructure, carrier interconnections, and managed services.

You’ll troubleshoot, provision services, and support SD-WAN and observability deployments. You will engage in equipment evaluations, new service roll-outs, field deployments, and hands-on projects while collaborating with carriers and