Resident Consultant

Pay Range: $60 - $75 (The pay rate may differ depending on your skills, education, experience, and other qualifications)

Featured Benefits:

• Medical Insurance in compliance with the ACA.
• 401(k).
• Sick leave in compliance with applicable state, federal, and local laws.

Brief Description (External Field)

For this opportunity, we are looking for team member who can primarily focus on Security technologies in support of Service Provider environments.

Expertise on: TCP-IP, IPv4, IPv6, BGP, VPN, IPSEC, SSL, MAC-Sec, UTM, IDP, NAT, SIP, VOIP, Juniper SRX Firewalls and Junos Space.

Key responsibilities include following, but not limited to:

• Uses professional knowledge to provide consultative services around all phases of network development from planning and design to testing, validation, implementation, migration, operation, and optimization.
• Provides domain expertise for implementing HPE Networking Juniper products and solutions with strong emphasis on the Juniper Security Portfolio.
• Uses professional knowledge to provide consultative services around all phases of network development from planning and design to testing, validation, implementation, migration, operation, and optimization.
• Learns continuously to keep up with the ever-evolving changes in the technology arena and expands their realm of experience across the Juniper product portfolios.
• Works well in teams as well as independently.
• Manages their schedule to deliver multiple projects concurrently when needed.
• Understands that PS delivery involves maintenance windows for production environments and requires the schedule flexibility to sometimes work nights, weekends, or holidays.
• Travels occasionally (up to 50%) to perform requirements gatherings, workshops, knowledge transfer sessions, and on-site implementation work when needed.

Skill specifications:

• The candidate is encouraged to have a deep understanding of Network Security in Service Provider and Enterprise environments.  Additionally, secondary skills around routing and switching, especially in a VOIP environment would be advantageous.
• Reasonable expertise on many of the following will be prerequisites for success: BGP, VPN, IPSEC, SSL, MAC-Sec, UTM, IDP, NAT.
• Knowledge and experience of technologies such as MPLS, OSPF, Encryption technologies, Traffic engineering, QoS, DC switching, TCP-IP, IPv4, IPv6,  is a plus.
• Amiable communication, interpersonal and social skills will be required. Prior Professional Services or Consulting experience is highly desirable!

Direct experience with Juniper products will enable your journey to productivity faster:

• Juniper SRX firewalls
• Juniper SkyATP, End Point Security and APT detection, protection and mitigation technologies 
• Junos Space and/or Junos Security Director
• Juniper Secure Analytics (JSA) and/or IBM QRadar
• Juniper Session Smart Router (SSR),
• Juniper Networks/Netscreen ScreenOS Firewalls.
• Juniper Mist AI, Wireless, Wired, and WAN Assurance,
• Juniper QFX/EX Series Switches,
• Juniper MX/ACX/PTX Series Routers

Other desirable skills and experience to help broaden your horizons include:

• Application Firewall and User Identity based firewalls
• DDOS protection and mitigation technologies
• Linux Operating Systems and Networking
• Cloud, Virtualization, Hypervisor, and Orchestration (RHOSP, RHOCP, KVM, VMware)
• Containers and Orchestration (Docker, K8S, Openshift)
• Scripting and Automation in Python, Ansible, Ruby, Javascript

Qualification and Experience:

• We generally prefer candidates with at least a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
• At least 5-7 years of experience in designing, implementing, and solving technical problems of Service Providers and Enterprises across their WANs, Data Centers, and campuses.
• Juniper product certifications (JNCIS/JNCIP/JNCIE) or industry equivalent are helpful.