Sr. Sales Engineer-NY/NJ

Juniper Networks has an immediate opening for a team-oriented, highly effective and self-motivated individual to support the Sales Engineering in Service Provider segment. Sales Engineers (SE’s) are a critical component of the Juniper GTM Team and have a primary responsibility to partner with the sales organization on driving technical sales activities for both new and existing opportunities. SE’s possess in-depth, hands-on expertise with Juniper's products, solutions and services as well as those of our competitors’ and can demonstrate the same to our customers and business partners.

The specific role is for Sr. Sales Engineer for Tier-1 SPs on the America’s Service Provider architecture team and will be looked upon as an inspiring leader and a multi-domain expert within the areas of mobility, Telco Cloud, SDN, Routing, Switching and Security solutions. The successful candidate will operate in an architect capacity for the sales engineering organization and will be responsible for the overall architecture and solutions being positioned to all the Tier-1 Service Providers in North America. You will work closely with Juniper Product, Engineering and strategy teams to make sure Juniper’s product roadmap is aligned to industry trends and customer’s evolving needs in new technologies. The candidate will also work closely with other SE architects in Americas and Global SP space and identify repeatable opportunities.

Experience working in a pre-sale’s role selling networking equipment OR end-user experience in design / architecture / vendor selection

• Ability to communicate, both oral and written, on sophisticated technical and sales issues to a variety of audiences, including executive level technical decision-makers
• Ability to make and communicate relevant connections between proposed technical solutions and customers' business requirements.
• 15+ years relevant experience in routing, switching, mobility, security and SDN domains. 
• Knowledge in mobile wireless architecture, 4G Evolved Packet Core (EPC), and 5G O-RAN evolution, 5G NGC and SBA, Network Slicing etc. 
• Exposure to virtualization technologies on x86 and scaling using technologies such DPDK, SR-IOV, SmartNICs etc.
• Expert level and hands-on knowledge of SDN environments including Overlay protocols such as MP-BGP, EVPN and tunneling technologies such as VXLAN, MPLSoGRE, MPLSoUDP
• Data Center networking with deep understanding of large underlay Leaf and Spine based CLOS networks.
• Routing expertise in access, metro and core back-bone design, including hands-on knowledge on BGP, IGP and MPLS technologies (SR, LDP, RSVP-TE etc.)
• Design and operate large scale MPLS enabled services such as Multicast-VPN, L3VPN, L2VPN, EVPN.
• Up to date knowledge on emerging protocols and technologies shaping up in standard bodies (SRv6, SRm6 Network slicing architecture etc.)
• Experience in network automation including solutions for workflow automation, service provisioning, telemetry and close-loop automation solutions
• Experience in designing high-performance security solutions for network infrastructure, cloud and mobility. Should have crafted advanced firewalls, private/public cloud virtual firewalls, threat prevention and aggregation, policy enforcements, SIEM solutions for service provider customers.

In-depth understanding of product features, use cases, positioning, and configuration in many of the following products or product categories:

• Juniper MX Series routers, PTX Series routers, Cisco ASR9000, CRS
• Juniper ACX Series routers for metro
• Juniper SRX series products
• Juniper QFX switches, Cisco Nexus switches, or Arista switches
• Openstack distributions (Redhat, Mirantis etc.)
• Opensource activities like OPNFV, Tungsten Fabric, ODL, ONAP etc.
• Linux operating system knowledge including KVM
• SDN overlay technologies including Nuage, or NSX
• Network Monitoring on Junos, Netconf/Rest APIs, YANG
• OSS/BSS/IT integration
• DevOPs capabilities, SLAX/Junos Automation, Perl,Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Cobbler
• Public cloud platform and services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Open Networking switch hardware (white box) and related software (Cumulus, BigSwitch, Pica8)
• Knowledge of merchant silicon technologies (Trident, Tomahawk, Jericho, etc.)
• JNCIE, CCIE, RHCE, CKA/CKD or othe