Senior Networking Professional Services Engineer - Remote- Active CI Poly Required

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