Juniper

Role: Lead Professional Services Consultant – Core & Edge 

About the Position:

This is a highly technical role, providing Architectural, Design, and Implementation Consultancy services for our global customers under the Juniper Networks Professional Services Team. The consultant will be required to develop and maintain expertise on SP/Enterprise Network Architectures and solutions, e.g., Core, Edge & Access, and Aggregation networks.

This is a full-time post-sales position on-site and remote, working as part of a wider Juniper Professional Services team.

Responsibilities: 

• Work in a consultative manner with customers, PM’s, sales, and systems engineering to the scope and deliver Professional Service projects. 
• Evaluate customer networks for performance, scalability, and security and provide recommendations to customers about improvements to network configurations and topologies to prevent problems before they occur. 
• Work with the internal Juniper Networks technical teams for placement of products and feature improvements for reliability, availability, and serviceability. 
• Working as a Technical Consultant for major network deployments and migrations where responsibilities includes delivery of Professional Services milestones including creation of high level and low level design documentation, migration planning, product integration and acceptance. 
• Work closely with colleagues and customer personnel to help test, design, and plan for deployments of new products and features. 
• Support networks in the early stages of deployment 
• Woking on larger projects, coordinating the work of a larger delivery team and owning overall responsibility for network implementation. 
• Provide appropriate training (Knowledge Transfer workshops) to Juniper Networks partners and customers. 
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with the customer's technical management and teams. 
• Participation in requirements gathering workshops, discussions, and meetings with Customer’s Design, Test, and/or Engineering Teams 
• Providing input related to ‘best practices’ in design, implementation and/or migration planning, and validation & verification testing 
• Assisting with hand-over to Operations or to a Juniper Networks Operational RE 
• Tracking and reporting of issues found during testing, Implementation, and migration 
• Understand Service provider core & edge network, Troubleshoot complicated hardware and software issues, replicate customer environments and network problems in the lab. 
• Working with customers across different zones. 

Primary Skills: 

• Strong Consultancy ,Design , Implementation and Migration, customer handling exposure, ability to work on multiple projects and manage customers appropriately. 
• Extensive experience in a technical role including strong experience supporting large SP networks and mobile backhaul solutions 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. 
• Excellent and deep hands-on and planning capabilities in TCP/IP, MPLS, L2/L3 VPN, IPSEC, Traffic Engineering, IGP, BGP, Internet peering/exchanges. 
• Strong knowledge of IP-related protocols including IS-IS, OSPF, BGP, RSVP, LDP, QOS solutions, and IPv4/ IPv6 standards/protocols. 
• Strong knowledge in Service Provider background. 
• Hands-on experience with Linux servers and network services (DHCP, SNMP, FTP, TFTP, DNS, NTP). 
• Must be fluent in the English language and possess excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• Should be open for International travel on need basis. 

Additional/Preferred Skills: 

• Advanced Service Provider Technologies such as NG-MVPN and Segment Routing skills 
• Perl/Python/Unix Scripting. 

Preferred Certifications : 

• JNCIA/JNCIS/JNCIP/JNCIE/CCNA/CCNP/CCIE or other equilavent. 

Experience/Background Desired: 

• Experience in the Telco/Service Provider domain. 
• Hands-on experience on Juniper devices will be a plus. 

Education: 

• Bachelor or Master of Science in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar discipline 

Juniper is an Equal Opportunity workplace and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, veteran status, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic. All employment decisions are made on the basis of individual qualifications, merit, and business need. 

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.