Senior Networking Professional Services Engineer - (Clearance Required: Top Secret/SCI w/CI Poly) , CA, MD, VA, DC

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Senior Networking Professional Services Engineer to support MX and Routing Director platforms in a large-scale ISP environment. The role is remote with travel and requires active TS/SCI with CI Poly clearance.

You will partner with resident engineers and customers to plan deployments, develop implementation plans, and perform advanced troubleshooting. Strong communication and JTAC collaboration are essential to success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Minimum 7+ years of hands-on network engineering experience.
• Clearance TS/SCI w/CI Polygraph.
• Experience with Juniper MX and Routing Director.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Support planning for network deployments and develop implementation plans.
• Open JTAC cases and provide data, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with resident engineers and customer teams to resolve issues and implement solutions.

Skills

ISP engineering

WAN transport

Troubleshooting

Customer liaison

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Juniper MX

Routing Director

XML API

NETCONF

REST API

Python

Ansible

Jinja2

PyEZ

Job description

Senior Networking Professional Services Engineer - (Clearance Required: Top Secret/SCI w/CI Poly) , CA, MD, VA, DC

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

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Network Engineer joining our Service Delivery organization as a resident engineer in an on-site role. In this position you will be responsible for supporting MX and Routing Director platforms in a large-scale service provider environment. The role will be assisting the customer with planning for network deployments, developing implementation plans, and performing testing of solutions. The work will be done in collaboration with a team of resident engineers, other internal organization team members, and the customer in support of these various responsibilities.

You will develop deep product knowledge, acting as the customer's primary point of contact in response to operational issues, engaging Juniper technical assistance Centers (JTAC) resolutions. This includes opening cases, providing requested data, advanced troubleshooting, and providing clearly written information and documentation as requested in support of these duties.

US Citizenship required

Clearance required: TS/SCI with CI Poly active

Travel: 25%. Could be more or less travel depending on the need at the time that is determined

Remote: This position is a remote role, with travel requirements required

Responsibilities:

• Deep understanding of routing and switching technologies commonly implemented in data center networks including EVPN, Multicast, OSPF, BGP, RSVP, LDP, Pseudo wires, L2VPN, L3VPN, MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE), Routing Policies, and associated tunneling technologies (GRE, VXLAN, etc.).
• Juniper products to be supported: MX, Routing Director

Knowledge and Skills:

• Engineering design, operational, and support experience in large scale ISP environment
• Mastery of topologies and methodologies for WAN transport methods
• Motivation, a self-starter that can take direction but also identify and engage in areas to improve network design and operation
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to prioritize work activity to achieve customer and account team goals
• Ability to effectively work under pressure with customer engineers and JTAC to resolve hardware and software issues and implement solutions
• Ability to effectively troubleshoot equipment and network problems & to open/track JTAC cases through to problem resolution
• Ability to effectively communicate case status updates and deliver root cause analysis
• Support informal and formal technology briefings and training sessions

Desired Qualifications:

• Engineering Design/Architecture, Operational, and Support experience in a medium to large scale data center network
• Juniper and/or other vendor certifications a strong plus
• Automation and DevOps knowledge a plus
• Automation access methods: XML API, NETCONF, REST API, gRPC
• Python tools: RPCs, REST, PyEZ, ncclient
• Ansible: Playbooks and Jinja2 templates
• Automation scripts: Commit, Op, Event, or SNMP scripts; Python and SLAX

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelors degree desired in a technical or engineering discipline or equivalent work experience
• Clearance Requirement: TS/SCI w/CI Polygraph
• Full-time remote position with travel to customer location in San Diego, CA or other customer sites throughout the united states
• Minimum 7+ years of hands-on network engineering experience
• Juniper and/or other vendor certifications a strong plus

Accessibility

HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities.

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.

Job

Engineering

Job Level

TCP_05

Salary

• United States of America: Annual Salary USD 135,500 - 275,000 in California // 119,500 - 275,000 in District of Columbia & Maryland & Virginia

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

Equal Employment Opportunity

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together.

EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

Compliance

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.