Resident Network Engineer – Data Centre Operations – freelance – onsite – Columbia area, Maryland, USA

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Comgent is seeking a Resident Network Engineer to operate and maintain a data centre network. You will work directly with customer engineers to investigate incidents, restore service and improve day-to-day network reliability. The environment includes Juniper QFX, MX, EX and SRX platforms; previous Juniper experience is advantageous rather than mandatory.

Assignment

• Location: Columbia area, Maryland, USA
• Engagement: freelance / contract
• Work arrangement: Onsite
• Schedule: 40 hours per week

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain the data centre network, applying a detailed understanding of routing, switching and the services running across it.
• Investigate equipment, hardware, software and network faults with customer engineers and vendor technical support, working through to resolution.
• Open and track technical support cases, supply diagnostic evidence and communicate progress, workarounds and root-cause findings clearly.
• Identify opportunities to improve network design and operation, balancing self-directed work with customer and account priorities.
• Deliver informal briefings and formal training sessions to help customer teams understand the technologies and solutions in use.

Requirements

• EVPN, multicast, OSPF, BGP, RSVP, LDP, pseudowires, L2/L3VPN, MPLS-TE, GRE, VXLAN.
• Technology environment: QFX, MX, EX, SRX; Juniper experience preferred, not mandatory.
• US citizenship required.
• Required clearance: TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph.

Desirable skills

• Vendor certifications; DevOps; XML API, NETCONF, REST, gRPC; Python RPCs, PyEZ, ncclient; Ansible/Jinja2; SLAX and Junos scripts.

Competencies

You should be comfortable working under pressure, prioritising technical issues and explaining findings to customers. Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills are valued.