Services Solution Network Consultant

Key objectives

The Juniper Professional Services team provides strategic solution design, integration, and deployment services to our customers. Acting as trusted advisors, we are passionate about enabling our clients towards an efficient and optimized deployment of network services for performance, scalability, resiliency, and security. Our team members bring forth effective technical and communication skills to operate in a consultative manner and develop strong customer relationships.

Members of our Core+Edge sub-team will be more focused around technologies oriented toward the Service Provider markets. Yet as we appreciate talent with diverse skills there will be opportunities to work elsewhere in areas such as Security, Cloud, Data Center, SDN, and Automation. Those having initiative to learn more, stretch your knowhow, and demonstrate additional capabilities will find broader sets of project opportunities available. 

For this particular 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.

The position is targeted for the Dallas metro area to help minimize the need for travel in the short term. However, travel in the future remains possible.

Key responsibilities include the 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,