Resident Network Consultant – SSR & Routing – freelance – Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

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Comgent is seeking a Resident Network Consultant for a technical assignment covering Session Smart Routing and service-provider routing, switching and security. You will develop detailed knowledge of the deployed platforms, advise customer teams and support a reliable production network. The assignment is based in Colorado Springs and includes laboratory validation, implementation planning and advanced troubleshooting.

Assignment

• Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
• Engagement: freelance / contract
• Schedule: 40 hours per week

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert on Juniper platforms and understand the customer network, implementation processes and support procedures.
• Test new designs, features and functionality in the laboratory, and develop implementation plans that verify correct operation in production.
• Validate operating-system patches and fixes across pre-production, test and live networks as implementation plans require.
• Troubleshoot equipment and network problems, initiate Juniper JTAC cases and track issues through to resolution.
• Run information-gathering workshops, produce regular written reports and train design, implementation and support personnel.
• Share lessons from major upgrades and network changes with engineering colleagues, and develop secondary skills across the products in the network.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience implementing and supporting networking products in large-scale Internet Service Provider environments.
• SSR; TCP/IP, RSVP, Segment Routing, BGP, IS-IS, MPLS; L2/L3VPN, EVPN, pseudowires; SDN; Juniper operations and network analysers; Unix/Linux.
• Technology environment: SSR, MX, EX, SRX.
• Required clearance: Active DoD Top Secret.

Desirable skills

• Automation/scripting; JNCIP/JNCIE/CCNP/CCIE strongly preferred.

Competencies

You should be able to work within a team, recognise and take ownership of tasks independently, and explain developing customer problems before they become major issues. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are important.

Travel and support

Occasional travel, after-hours and on-call critical support, compensated with compensatory time.