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Resident Network Support Engineer – Juniper/Mist (Columbus, OH)

We are looking for a Resident Network Support Engineer for a large, global B2B high-tech company. In this role, you will deliver reactive and proactive activities according to Service Level Agreement to ensure customer satisfaction and loyalty. Provides direct post-sales systems on-site technical support for reactive and proactive customers. Each position maintains a high level of customer satisfaction by ensuring clear business and technical solution alignment, clarifying customer needs and ensuring that they are met. Jobs are responsible for company Total Customer Experience as well as the revenue growth, profitability, and account retention.

This is a 40-hour-per-week, 12-month contract (possibility of extensions). This is an on-site role in Columbus, OH.

This is a W2 employee of Stage 4 Solutions. Health benefits and 401K offered.

Responsibilities:

• Hold network information gathering workshops with the Customer to understand the Customer’s existing network design and technical requirements of new network designs.
• Understand the Customer’s organizational structure and become familiar with the Customer’s network implementation and support processes and procedures to help in supporting a network that is available and sustainable.
• Carry out testing of new Designs, features, and functionality as required by the Customer in a laboratory environment and to help develop plans to implement and verify that they are operating correctly in the live network.
• Test patches and fixes to operating software and to ensure that they are implemented and functioning correctly in the pre-production test network and then live network as implementation plans dictate.
• Troubleshoot equipment and network problems and open and track JTAC cases to resolve problems on pre- and post-production issues.
• Raise equipment, Return Material Authorizations (RMA’s) and to track these through to problem resolution
• Produce a written summary report of the status of Design projects, equipment and network problems regularly to the Customer
• 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
• Train the Customer’s design, implementation, and support personnel to configure and operate the HPE/HPE/Juniper Networks products
• Assist the Customer in developing Network Operating and Equipment Operating Procedures
• Support the production environment of HPE/HPE/Juniper products within the Customer infrastructure
• Support ongoing efforts in defining best practice policies for HPE/HPE/Juniper product applications used by Customer HPE/HPE/Juniper Business Use Only
• 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.
• Develop secondary skills in other products in the HPE/HPE/Juniper product portfolio.

Requirement:

• 5+ years of design, implementation, and operational experience in large-scale IP networks.
• JUNOS CLI experience.
• Must have large-scale experience with QFX, EX, switching and routing.
• Prior Work experience at a large enterprise or a Data Center with EVPN/VXLAN experience.
• Experience with core routing BGP (eBGP and iBGP) and OSPF protocols.
• Mist Wireless assurance experience.
• Experience with HPE/HPE/Juniper EZ-LAG.
• Background in automation with Ansible, YAML, and HPE/HPE/Juniper PyEZ
• Experience writing automation scripts in Python.
• Experience with design and/or deployment of routing and switching products within the Customer infrastructure.
• Ability to communicate effectively in crises with all levels of an organization from Engineering/Operations to CIO/CISO audiences.
• Ability to refine and translate complex requirements and execute best practice solutions.
• Assisted with major network upgrades, maintenance windows, and changes in the customer network.
• Strong customer interface and presentation skills.
• Technical Certifications: JNCIS MistAI,Wireless, JNCIP‑MistAI

• Ensure certifications are supported by demonstrable hands-on, practical operational experience with Mist access points (APs), Marvis AI, edge devices, and the Mist web-based UI, reflecting real-world deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting capabilities.

Experience and expertise in providing or assisting with the following:

• The preparation of HPE/HPE/Juniper equipment configurations and validation of configurations for new installations, changes within the network, software upgrades etc.
• Development and maintenance of fault diagnosis procedures to support effective fault resolution
• Development and maintenance of network operational support procedures related to the HPE/HPE/Juniper products
• Assessing the health of a network based on HPE/HPE/Juniper products
• Network related testing to ensure that the HPE/HPE/Juniper products operate correctly
• Implementation, integration & migration planning
• Validation and upgrade testing of the HPE/HPE/Juniper products
• Troubleshooting of network issues
• Working knowledge to support use of the Mist API/Web UI, Marvis AI, edge devices,
• Basic automation knowledge encompassing YAML and JSON templates plus HPE/HPE/Juniper PyEZ
• Ongoing, informal, knowledge transfer related to HPE/HPE/Juniper products
• Assisting JTAC with open JTAC cases
• Submission of problem reports acting as a technical liaison with HPE/HPE/Juniper Customer Service and Engineering groups

Please submit your resume to our network at http://jobs.stage4solutions.com/ (apply to the Resident Network Support Engineer – Juniper/Mist (Columbus, OH) role).
 
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Stage 4 Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing employees with an inclusive environment that is free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on the job requirements and candidates’ qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion/belief, national origin, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Compensation:  $30/hr. - $34.56/hr.

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