Resident Engineer, TS/SCI with Poly, Columbia/Fort Meade, MD, Onsite

About the role

This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.

Job Description

US Citizenship required
Clearance requirement: TS/SCI w/Full Scope Polygraph
Full-time on-site position at a customer location in the Columbia/Ft. Meado area. This is not a remote position.

Key Responsibilities

• Operations and maintenance of a data center network
• 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: QFX, MX, EX, SRX
• Experience with Juniper products a plus, but not a requirement
• Ideal Strengths:
• 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
• Able to prioritize work activity to achieve customer and account team goals
• Able to effectively work under pressure with customer engineers and JTAC to resolve hardware and software issues and implement solutions
• Able to effectively troubleshoot equipment and network problems & to open/track JTAC cases through to problem resolution
• Able to effectively communicate case status updates and deliver root cause analysis
• Support informal and formal technology briefings and training sessions

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

What We Can Offer You

• Health & Wellbeing
• Personal & Professional Development
• Unconditional Inclusion

Pay & Benefits

The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 119,500 - 275,000 in Maryland
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.

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