Architect-Cloud-CA or WA preferred

At Juniper, we believe the network is the single greatest vehicle for knowledge, understanding, and human advancement the world has ever known.
To achieve real outcomes, we know that experience is the most important requirement for networking teams and the people they serve. Delivering an experience-first, AI-Native Network pivots on the creativity and commitment of our people. It requires a consistent and committed practice, something we call the Juniper Way.

Here's the revised job description incorporating the updated details:

Location Flexibility: We are open to the right candidate being based in various locations.

About Juniper

Juniper Networks was founded on a simple but exceptionally powerful vision for the future of networking: "Connect everything. Empower everyone." This ideal is at the heart of our commitment and drives every Juniper colleague daily. Our high-performance network infrastructure helps service providers, enterprises, and public sector organizations create value and accelerate success in the evolving global marketplace.

With products and technology powering the world's largest and most demanding networks, Juniper Networks [NYSE: JNPR], headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, has nearly 7,500 employees and offices in 50 countries. Our customers include the top 100 global service providers, 30,000 enterprises (including 99 of the Global Fortune 100), as well as hundreds of government and higher education organizations.

Why Juniper?

Our vision is to become a multi-generational community that empowers people to accomplish the impossible. We aim to instill values that foster long-term prosperity for our community. At Juniper, we uphold trust, integrity, respect, humility, and excellence. We are seeking individuals who embody these values and share our vision.

Who We Are

Juniper Networks simplifies networking with innovative products, solutions, and services. Through engineering excellence, we eliminate the complexities of cloud-era networking to tackle our customers' toughest challenges. At Juniper, we believe the network is a resource for sharing knowledge and advancing humanity, and we are committed to delivering secure, automated, and scalable networks that meet the speed of modern business.

The Sales Engineering team enables Juniper to sell and support sophisticated networking and security solutions.

The Role: Cloud Network Architect

Juniper Networks has an immediate opening for a team-oriented, highly effective, and self-motivated Cloud Network Architect with a focus on networking for AI, within the Cloud Systems Engineering Organization.

The Architect role is our most senior Systems Engineering technical position, equivalent to a Director level. Architects are part of the Juniper GTM (Go-to-Market) Team and have a primary responsibility to partner with the CTO office, Product Management, and Engineering to drive technical sales activities for opportunities in forward-looking and emerging technologies, as well as new network evolutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the CTO office, Product Management, and Engineering to lead technical sales for emerging technologies and network evolutions.
• Represent Juniper in industry presentations and standardization activities (e.g., IETF, NANOG).
• Engage with AI architects and leaders at top Cloud organizations such as Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and X.ai.
• Provide expert insight into Cloud network infrastructure, including AI cloud networking, hyper-scale data centers, and cloud/SP backbones.
• Leverage relationships with Cloud architects and leadership to advance Juniper's position.

Required Expertise:

• A minimum of 9 years' experience in a technical or pre-sales role.
• Proven experience designing and consulting on Cloud hyper-scale data centers, cloud/SP scale backbones, and networking for AI.
• Deep knowledge of Juniper products, competitive solutions, and vertical market use cases.
• Hands-on expertise with networking technologies across routing and switching domains.
• Mastery of routing protocols (e.g., IGPs, EGPs, Layer-2/3 VPNs).
• Extensive experience in datacenter and WAN design (e.g., EVPN/VXLAN, MPLS, BGP).
• Familiarity with SONiC and open-source networking platforms.
• Hands-on experience with hardware and software from vendors such as Juniper, Arista, Cisco, Nokia, and Broadcom, including ASIC architectures.
• Exceptional presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Expertise:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, OCI, Azure).
• Experience in AI data center and network design.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., JNCIP, JNCIE, CCNP, CCIE).

Attributes for Success:

• Positive attitude and adaptability to manage competing priorities.
• Strong alignment with Juniper's culture and values.
• Ability to travel as required to meet business and customer needs.
• This revision integrates the new focus on AI networking and ensures a clear, professional tone with logical flow and emphasis on key qualifications.

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Minimum Salary: $284,000.00

Maximum Salary:$408,250.00

The pay range for this position is expected to be between $284,000.00 and $408,250.00/year; however, the base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position also includes medical benefits, 401(k) eligibility, vacation, sick time, and parental leave. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employee will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Juniper's pay range data is provided in accordance with local state pay transparency regulations. Juniper may post different minimum wage ranges for permanent residency petitions pursuant to US Department of Labor requirements.

ABOUT JUNIPER NETWORKS

Juniper Networks challenges the inherent complexity that comes with networking and security in the multicloud era. We do this with products, solutions and services that transform the way people connect, work and live. We simplify the process of transitioning to a secure and automated multicloud environment to enable secure, AI-driven networks that connect the world. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks ( or connect with Juniper on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

WHERE WILL YOU DO YOUR BEST WORK?

Wherever you are in the world, whether it's downtown Sunnyvale or London, Westford or Bengaluru, Juniper is a place that was founded on disruptive thinking - where colleague innovation is not only valued, but expected. We believe that the great task of delivering a new network for the next decade is delivered through the creativity and commitment of our people. The Juniper Way is the commitment to all our colleagues that the culture and company inspire their best work-their life's work. At Juniper we believe this is more than a job - it's an opportunity to help change the world.

At Juniper Networks, we are committed to elevating talent by creating a trust-based environment where we can all thrive together. If you think you have what it takes, but do not necessarily check every single box, please consider applying. We'd love to speak with you.

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ELIGIBILITY TO WORK AND E-VERIFY

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

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Juniper is an Equal Opportunity workplace. We do not discriminate in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, veteran status, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic. All employment decisions are made on the basis of individual qualifications, merit, and business need.