Freelance Network Engineer Remote Jobs in Colorado

Sr Resident Engineer - MetaThis role has been designated as 'Remote/Teleworker', which means you will primarily work from home.

Job Description:

About the Position:Reporting to the Service Delivery Manager of Advanced Services, this is a highly technical role that provides post-sales support for HPE's Network Products. The Resident Engineer will work daily with the customer, either remotely or at the customer's location, and is expected to have expertise in Juniper/HPE products deployed or to be deployed within the customer's service provider network, and to provide technical and operational support for network issues, ongoing certification, and testing efforts. Although a location in the San Francisco, California, or Denver, Colorado, area is preferred, a remote status with occasional travel will be considered for the right candidate.

Responsibilities:

This is a full-time position that may require longer work hours or occasional on-call weekend support.Technical support to the customer may require the Resident Engineer to:

• Understand the customer's organizational structure and become familiar with the customer's network implementation and support processes and procedures to help in designing a network that is available and sustainable.
• To hold network information gathering workshops with the customer to understand the customer's existing network design and the technical requirements of new network designs.
• Carry out testing of new tools, features, and functionality as required by the customer in a laboratory environment, and help develop plans to implement and verify that they are operating correctly in the live network
• Test patches and fixes to operating software, ensuring they are implemented and functioning correctly in the pre-production test network and then in the live network, as implementation plans dictate.
• Hold technology workshops with the customer to discuss equipment and network problems and to provide case status updates, including the reasons for any problems encountered and the workarounds and/or solutions that are being tried
• Support design and planning of Juniper MX, QFX, EX series, and associated solutions within the customer's commercial network
• Support ongoing efforts in defining best practice policies for Juniper/HPE product applications used by customers
• To peer with other employees performing similar Resident Engineering roles, where lessons learned may help minimize risk associated with major network upgrades or changes in the network.
• The RE will be expected to develop secondary skills in other products in the HPE product portfolio

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or equivalent experience
• 7 years' experience providing implementation and technical support of networking products in LAN, WAN, or Internet services environments with either a technology vendor or a service provider environment.
• JNCIE/CCIE Service Provideror equivalent
• JUNOS CLI experience across MX, QFX, EX series
• Expert IP/Routing experience (OSPF, ISIS, BGP, MPLS-TE, RSVP, LDP, IPv6, Routing Policy)
• Routing protocol operation, migration, and scaling mechanisms
• Routing policies at BGP peering points
• VPNs and the associated tunneling technologies (MPLS, EVPN, L3VPN, VPLS)
• Ethernet switching and 802.1Q, QOS
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

Preferred Qualifications:

Candidates should be able to demonstrate the following competencies:

• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to break down work activities to achieve project goals
• Demonstrated ability to communicate project status and identify risk
• The ability to work independently and to function in a team environment.
• Strong customer interface and presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and work calmly under pressure.
• Programming and scripting experience preferred (Python, Ruby,shell,awk,slax, etc.)
• Familiar with the operation of management tools and network analyzers.
• Trend analysis to help deliver more efficient solutions to the customer network
• An understanding of the protocols surrounding IP service provider networks. These skills include but are not limited to:
• Cloud architecture experience
• Must understand BGP and route reflector topologies
• Must be able to communicate effectively and technically with internal JTAC, escalation, and engineering teams.
• Must be able to communicate effectively with the customer.
• Scripting skills (Slax, Python, Ansible)
• Database experience a plus

Other Information:

• Relocation -will consider for the right candidate
• Travel requirements for the position (<10%)

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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

TCP_04"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 111,000 - 211,000 in Colorado // 120,000 - 243,000 in California
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

The estimated job application period closure is October 26 2026; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.

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