Senior Resident Network Engineer – Routing & WAN – freelance – onsite – Aurora, Colorado, USA

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Comgent is seeking a Senior Resident Network Engineer to support routing and WAN operations in a large-scale service-provider environment. You will work with customer engineers and other delivery specialists on network deployments, changes and implementation testing, while serving as a primary technical contact for operational problems.

Assignment

• Location: Aurora, Colorado, USA
• Engagement: freelance / contract
• Work arrangement: Onsite
• Schedule: 40 hours per week

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain the service-provider network, supporting customer projects that change or extend the deployed environment.
• Assist customer engineers with new network installations, deployment planning, implementation plans and solution testing.
• Investigate equipment, hardware, software and network faults, gather diagnostic evidence and engage vendor technical support for resolution.
• Open and track support cases, provide clear technical documentation and communicate incident progress and root-cause findings.
• Apply detailed routing, WAN and MPLS knowledge to troubleshoot services and support reliable network operation.

Requirements

Requirements

• Relevant experience: 10+ years.
• Multicast, OSPF, BGP, RSVP, LDP, pseudowires, L2/L3VPN, MPLS-TE, routing policy, MACsec, IPsec, GRE; WAN/BGP and MPLS traffic engineering.
• Technology environment: CTP, MX, EX, SRX; Juniper experience preferred, not mandatory.
• Required clearance: TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
• Education: College degree desirable, not required.

Desirable skills

• Juniper or other vendor certifications

Competencies

The role requires engineering design, operational and support experience in medium-to-large ISP environments. You should understand BGP topologies and WAN transport methods, with intermediate-to-expert knowledge of MPLS deployments and traffic engineering.