Senior Networking Professional Services Engineer - Remote- Activ

Senior Resident Network Engineer needed for a Direct Hire, Remote opportunity with SOC's direct client located in Indiana.

 

**Due to federal requirements, candidates must hold an Active TS/SCI Clearance with CI Polygraph to be considered for this role.**

 

SOC is seeking a highly motivated Senior Network Engineer joining our Service Delivery organization as a resident engineer. 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.

 

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
  
• 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
  

 

Required Qualifications:

• 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
  

 

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
  

 

Employment Prerequisites 

The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: successful completion of a background investigation and drug urinalysis. 

  

SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. 

Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations, which may have been provided by job boards. Actual pay is determined by an applicant’s experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply. 

 

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Estimated Min Rate: $126000.00

Estimated Max Rate: $180000.00