Senior Network Engineer (Contract) - Juniper Lab Cert Onsite

Comgent; City of Middletown (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Comgent is seeking a Senior Network Engineer for certification and implementation work, onsite in Middletown, NJ. The role focuses on certifying Juniper network solutions in lab environments and guiding customer deployments in enterprise and service-provider networks.

You will combine deep Juniper configuration skills with test planning, documentation and customer-facing delivery, and you will lead testing and implementation across multiple projects while coordinating with customer teams.

Qualifications

• At least five years of hands-on Juniper routing, switching and security with lab certification and customer implementations.
• JNCIP-level configuration and troubleshooting; certification itself is not mandatory.
• Configure and troubleshoot multicast, GRE, IPsec VPNs, NAT, BGP, OSPF, IPv6, CoS, routing instances, J-Flow, Real-Time, RPM, VRRP and SNMP.
• Hands-on platforms include SRX300/SRX400 and mid-range SRX; MX204/MX301/MX304/MX240/MX480; EX3400/EX4000/EX4650; and QFX5120.
• Experience with Mist WAN Assurance and Mist Switch Assurance.
• Experience using Spirent TestCenter and PRTG Network Monitor.
• Juniper certifications; SD-WAN, Metro Ethernet and LTE/5G resilient WAN experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop, execute and document test plans for new hardware, software releases and network designs; validate Junos features, interoperability and performance.
• Configure laboratory environments and use test equipment to establish whether solutions meet design and operational requirements.
• Design, configure and deploy routing, switching, security and cloud-managed solutions, supporting onboarding, migrations and operational readiness.
• Develop resilient WAN architectures using Metro Ethernet, Internet and LTE backup services, and troubleshoot complex implementation issues.
• Create certification reports, configuration guides, deployment standards and engineering procedures, keeping test results and recommendations clear and usable.
• Present technical findings and transfer knowledge to engineering, operations and customer teams, coordinating delivery across multiple projects and priorities.
• Provide technical leadership during customer onboarding and migrations, collaborating with customer engineering and implementation teams.

Skills

Juniper routing

Juniper switching

Juniper security

Test planning

Documentation

Customer facing

WAN design

BGP/OSPF

J-Flow

IPv6

Education

Degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Spirent

PRTG

Job description

Comgent is seeking a Senior Network Engineer for certification and implementation work, onsite in Middletown, NJ. The role focuses on certifying Juniper network solutions in lab environments and guiding customer deployments in enterprise and service-provider networks.

You will combine deep Juniper configuration skills with test planning, documentation and customer-facing delivery, and you will lead testing and implementation across multiple projects while coordinating with customer teams.