Pay Range: $50 – $70/hr. The pay rate may differ depending on your skills, education, experience, and other qualifications.

Featured Benefits:

• Medical Insurance in compliance with the ACA.
• 401(k).
• Sick leave in compliance with applicable state, federal, and local laws.

Brief Description (External Field):

• For this opportunity, we are looking for team member who can primarily focus on Core+Edge technologies with secondary skills in the Security domain in support of Service Provider environments.
• Expertise on : VLAN, MPLS, TCP-IP, IPv4, IPv6, OSPF, BGP, VPN, EVPN, IP Fabrics, Multicast, NAT, CG-NAT, IPSEC, SSL, MAC-Sec, UTM, and IDP.

Key responsibilities include following, but not limited to:

• Provides domain expertise for implementing Juniper Networks products and solutions with a strong emphasis on the Juniper Core and Edge Routing and Switching Portfolios and a secondary knowledge on the Juniper Security Portfolio.
• Uses professional knowledge to provide consultative services around all phases of network development from planning and design to testing, validation, implementation, migration, operation, and optimization.
• Learns continuously to keep up with the ever evolving changes in the technology arena and expands their realm of experience across the Juniper product portfolios.
• Works well in teams as well as independently.
• Manages their schedule to deliver multiple projects concurrently when needed.
• Understands that PS delivery involves maintenance windows for production environments and requires the schedule flexibility to sometimes work nights, weekends, or holidays.
• Travels occasionally (up to 50%) to perform requirements gatherings, workshops, knowledge transfer sessions, and on site implementation work when needed.

Skill specifications:

• The candidate is encouraged to have a deep understanding of both core and advanced IP networking concepts, routing, switching, and protocols, along with a foundational understanding of Network Security in Service Provider and Enterprise environments.
• Reasonable expertise on many of the following will be prerequisites for success: VLAN, MPLS, TCP-IP, IPv4, IPv6, OSPF, BGP, VPN, EVPN, IP Fabrics, Multicast, NAT, CG-NAT, IPSEC, SSL, MAC-Sec, UTM, and IDP.
• Knowledge and experience of technologies such as MPLS, OSPF, Encryption technologies, Traffic engineering, QoS, DC switching, VxLAN, SDN and SD-WAN is a plus.
• Amiable communication, interpersonal and social skills will be required. Prior Professional Services or Consulting experience is highly desirable!

Direct experience with Juniper products will enable your journey to productivity faster:

• Juniper MX/ACX/PTX Series Routers,
• Juniper QFX/EX Series Switches,
• Juniper Route Reflector (JRR) Appliances,
• Juniper Mist AI, Wireless, Wired, and WAN Assurance,
• Juniper Session Smart Router (SSR),
• Juniper Paragon Automation,
• Juniper SRX firewalls,
• Junos Space and/or Junos Security Director
• Juniper SkyATP, End Point Security and APT detection, protection and mitigation technologies
• Juniper Secure Analytics (JSA) and/or IBM QRadar
• Juniper Networks/Netscreen ScreenOS Firewalls.

Other desirable skills and experience to help broaden you horizons include:

• Scripting and Automation in Python, Ansible, Ruby, Javascript
• Application Firewall and User Identity based firewalls
• Linux Operating Systems and Networking
• Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud platforms (Amazon, Azure, Google) and connectivity
• Cloud, Virtualization, Hypervisor, and Orchestration (RHOSP, RHOCP, KVM, VMware)
• Containers and Orchestration (Docker, K8S, Openshift)
• DDOS protection and mitigation technologies

Qualification and Experience:

• We generally prefer candidates with at least a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
• 7+ years experience in designing, implementing, and solving technical problems of Telecom and/or Cloud Service Provider WANs and Data Centers.
• Juniper product certifications (JNCIS/JNCIP/JNCIE) or industry equivalent are helpful.
• The position is targeted for the Dallas metro area to help minimize the need for travel in the short term. Still the opportunity for travel in the future remains possible.