Resident Network Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Resident Engineer in California for its Global Services/Advanced Services team. You will own complex customer issues, troubleshoot networks, and deliver proactive guidance while working onsite at a customer site or HPE office.

Required: 4+ years in network engineering, JUNOS CLI, Juniper MX/EX/QFX/PTX, BGP/OSPF/ISIS, MPLS/VPLS, and QoS. Strong communication and collaboration are essential to success in this role.

Qualifications

• Typically requires 4+ years of network engineering experience.
• Excellent engineering troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• JUNOS CLI experience and large-scale Juniper hardware exposure.
• Experience with core routing protocols (BGP/OSPF/ISIS) and MPLS/VPLS/VPLS QoS.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of customer issues and restore service using a systematic approach.
• Collaborate with GS teams to understand networks, issues, and solutions.
• Replicate customer environments in lab and work with engineers on fixes.
• Provide support for high-profile escalations and engage in meetings.
• Develop and maintain skills; contribute to internal/external docs.
• Propose improvements to enhance reliability and customer satisfaction.

Skills

BGP

OSPF

ISIS protocols

QoS

Python scripting

Tools

JUNOS CLI

Juniper hardware (MX, EX, QFX, PTX)

Job description

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

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 on finding 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 Engineer reports into the Global Services (GS) division of Networks as part of the Advanced Services (AS) team, typically dedicated to a single customer. Advanced Services is an additional support option, which requires the purchase of a support contract. Resident Engineers are expected to be fluent not only in networking technology and general networking, but also in the specific customer deployments and use cases they support.

Resident Engineers are the primary technical support contact for customers that purchase Advanced Services, and work with the customer directly and daily. They are entrusted to access customer production equipment to perform troubleshooting and repair. In this position, the primary role is one of “break/fix”, where the engineer’s mastery of in-depth diagnostics quickly brings network assets back online and heads off future problems. Resident Consultants extend this role to include proactive design and implementation guidance as well as more advanced troubleshooting, repair, and communication skills.

Key Tasks

• Take ownership of customer issues, isolate networking product issues at configuration, network, hardware, or software levels, ensuring promptservice restoration and resolution to the customer’s satisfaction using a systematic problem-solving approach.
• Work closely with other GS teams including JTAC/CFTS to ensure knowledge of the customer’snetworks, issues, and solutions. Keep AS management informed of all sensitiveissues.
• In higher support levels, replicate customer environments and issues in lab and work closely with Network Engineering teams in providing bug fixes, patches or workarounds on software issues reported by customer.
• Provide necessary support for high profile technicalescalations. Engage in email exchanges, conference calls and/or in-person meetings. Many RE's work inside the customer's facilities.
• Develop and maintain skills in the core products and technologies. Take all necessary internal and external training required andhighlight any need for new training as the customer's networks evolve.
• Work with other technical teams within networking regarding new productsand feature improvements for reliability, availability, and serviceability. This includes both SW and HW engineering groups.
• Contribute to internal and external technical documentation (PRs, White Papers, FAQs, KBs, TOIs).
• Develop a “Can-Do” attitude and suggest opportunities to improve the team's performance andincrease the customer’s satisfaction.

Experience

Typically requires 4+ years of network engineering experience.

Excellent engineering troubleshooting skills.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Strong presentation skills.

• JUNOS CLI experience.
• Must have large-scale experience with Juniper hardware (MX, EX, QFX and PTX Products)
• Must have Experience with core routing BGP, OSPF, ISIS protocols.
• Must have Experience with MPLS, VPLS, L2VPNs, EVPN-VXLAN and QoS.
• Experience with Python Scripting a plus

Accessibility

HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here.

Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.

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.

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Job

Engineering

Job Level

TCP_04

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 120,000 - 243,000 in California. The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.

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