Job description 

This is a highly technical role, providing primarily offshore post-sales Consulting delivery under the Juniper Networks Professional Services Team. The role covers Architectural, Design and Implementation Consultancy services for Junipers Networks Solutions. Consultant will be required to develop and maintain expertise on SDN Architectures and solutions.

There is a wide range of technical offerings which the Consultant will be expected to deliver, ranging from Design, Deployment, Configuration, Customization and Training. The role involves taking the Juniper products, and ensuring the effective delivery of the products, and configuring or customizing it to meet the customer’s requirements. This also includes being able to clearly outline the products capabilities, consult with the customer to understand and document their requirements, shape, define and agree designs, implement the solution, and configuring the products into the customer environment, using technical and personal skills to achieve this objective.

Typical activities are around the following key areas:

 Facilitating workshops to identify and understand customer requirements

Providing guidance on Network Architectures

Developing and documenting High-Level and Low-Level Network Designs

Design Validation and Verification testing

Interoperability testing

Network Implementation planning

Troubleshooting/fault finding

Knowledge Transfer activities

 The main purpose of this job is to work with Juniper Networks customers to ensure the smooth design, planning, migration, and integration of Juniper Networks Products into new and/or existing network.

The Consultant is expected to provide guidance and is (technically) leading in order to provide high quality network design, service design, planning, engineering and implementation consulting services to the customer, to maintain high levels of customer satisfaction and thereby increase potential business opportunities.

 Primary skills and experience required:

 Expert communication and interpersonal skills, this means you like talking to people...yes in person, too!

The mature “customer first” focus so that you personally can close out operational challenges on both sales and delivery with CSS, Sales, Partners, or other Juniper players

Strong design and implementation experience

Commitment to delivering a remarkable customer experience

Bachelor of Science in Engineering/Comp Science or similar discipline

Excellent and deep hands on and planning capabilities in TCP/IP, MPLS, Traffic Engineering, IGP, BGP, Internet peering/exchanges

Very strong knowledge of the design principles and operations in SP networks.

Extensive experience in a technical role including strong experience supporting large SP networks and mobile backhaul solutions

Excellent Customer handling and communication (verbal and written) skills

Good understanding of Juniper SDN Products(Mist AI ,Contrail Networking ,Contrail Insights, CSO, Paragon Pathfinder, Paragon Planner, Paragon Insights) and other virtualization products (NFX,vSRX,vMX)

Good understanding of ETSI NFV MANO framework

Sound knowledge of Linux architectures and debugging

Knowledge in Container based Microservice architectures

Experience in understanding and debugging SDN environments

Good understanding of different Openstack Projects and Heat Templates

Experience in integrating contrail networking or any SDN controller with VMware vCenter,Redhat Openstack, Openshift

Experience in deploying SDN controller with Juju Charms

Experience in Server DataPlane acceleration technologies like DPDK,SR-IOV,SmartNIC

Experience in Designing Multi-cloud Environments

Strong experience in container based Cloud Management Platforms( Kubernetes,Openshift)

Good understanding of networking virtualization (Vmware, GCP, AWS)

Experience in Scripting languages like Python  , Shell is a plus.

Good knowledge of  Data Representation types ( XML , JSON , YAML)

 Preferred Qualifications:

 Configuration management/automation tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform or  SaltStack.

Good technical understanding of distributed systems, large-scale server and cloud infrastructures

Experience with public clouds such as AWS, AZURE, GCP

knowledge of IP-related protocols including IS-IS, OSPF, QOS solutions and IPv6 standards/protocols

Knowledge of service provider specific protocols like RSVP-TE, Segment Routing, L2/L3 VPN, EVPN-VXLAN, EVPN-MPLS

Experience in deploying & managing clustered applications

Working knowledge of Jenkins and Git

Network automation such as switch configurations, routing, & load balancers

Knowledge of Juniper MX/PTX/EX/QFX platforms is a plus

Knowledge in VMware vCenter/NSX

Knowledge on Apstra is a plus.

Certifications: JNCIA/JNCIS/JNCIP/JNCIE-Cloud, DCA, CKA, CKS , Redhat(EX180,EX310)