Senior Network Engineer – Egypt
Job Description
<strong>Resident Engineer – Security Operations</strong><p><br></p><strong> About The Position </strong><p><br></p>The Senior Network Engineer (Resident Engineer) is a highly technical role, providing post-sales on-site support of Juniper Networks Products. The Resident Engineer will be required to develop and maintain an expertise on the products deployed within the Customers’ network. The nature of this engagement is shift based, that means, the engineer is expected to work with team members in rotating shift to provide the end customer 24×7 on-site support. This position will be based on customer location at Egypt/Cairo.<p><br></p><strong> Responsibilities </strong><p><br></p>This is a fixed term 1 year contract that can be renewed. The job is located on-site at the customer NOC and requires working on varying shifts. On-site technical support to the Customer may require the RE:<p><br></p><ul><li>To hold design and information gathering workshops with the Customer to understand the Customer’s existing network design and technical requirements of new network designs when working during the day shift. </li><li>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. </li><li>To 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 </li><li>To 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. </li><li>To troubleshoot equipment and network problems and to open and track JTAC cases through to problem resolution on pre and postproduction issues. 24×7 shift work (either 8 or 12 Hours shifts)</li><li>To raise equipment Return Material Authorizations (RMA’s) and to track these through to problem resolution </li><li>During the customer’s working hours, work on developing network optimization and configuration reviews.</li><li>Develop and execute network changes methods and procedure and migration plans based on the customer requirements.</li><li>Develop scripts and able to work on SDN and network automation</li><li>To produce a written summary report of the status of Design projects, equipment and network problems on a regular basis to the Customer </li><li>To 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 </li><li>To train the Customer’s design, implementation and support personnel to configure and operate the Juniper Networks products </li><li>To assist the Customer to develop Network Operating and Equipment Operating Procedures </li><li>Support design and operations and panning of Juniper EX, SRX and MX Series network products within the Customer infrastructure. </li><li>Support ongoing efforts in defining best practice policies for Juniper product applications used by Customer </li><li>The Resident Engineer is expected 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. </li><li>Conduct and lead customer onsite solution evaluation (including Proof-of-Concepts)</li><li>Own and maintain the technical relationship with Juniper partners’ community Responsible for identifying and matching technology opportunities with the customer’s business issues and objectives</li><li>Preparation of Juniper equipment configurations and validation of configurations for new installations, changes within the network, software upgrades etc</li><li>Advice, and demonstration, if necessary, of new software updates and hardware features</li><li>Assisting with network inventory tracking and management to support the network.</li><li>Testing Juniper Networks product features and functionality</li></ul><p><br></p>The RE will be expected to develop secondary skills in other products in the Juniper product portfolio.<p><br></p><strong> Minimum Qualifications </strong><p><br></p>Candidates for this role MUST have a minimum 5 years experience providing implementation and technical support of networking products in LAN, WAN, or Internet services environments.<p><br></p>Candidates for this role MUST be able to demonstrate the following competencies:<p><br></p><ul><li>Detailed technical experience in the installation and operation of Firewalls across different functions , This includes hands-on operation of management tools and network analyzers. </li><li>A detailed understanding of Network Security, the protocols surrounding IP service provider networks. These skills should include: Strong Knowledge about Routing Protocols, L2 Switching, Spanning Tree, VLAN and VLAN manipulation, TCP/IP fundamentals. IP subnetting and supernetting and hierarchical routing principles, Routing protocol operation (OSPF, and BGP), Routing policies at BGP peering points, e. VPNs and the associated tunneling technologies (IPSEC, DHCP, Routing Protocols , etc.)</li><li>Strong Experience with Juniper security SRX-Series , attacks mitigation methods and Network security concepts is highly required.</li><li>Strong knowledge of IP, NAT, IPSec, Security Rule processing, and Application Layer Gateway.</li><li>Understanding of Clustering and basic infrastructure protocols like, SYSLOG, SNMP, DNS, NTP ,RADIUS and Telecommunication Protocols</li><li>Strong understanding and expert level knowledge about core routing and Service Provider Network design and Architecture. </li><li>Strong Scripting capabilities (using Paython, Ansible and other coding languages)</li><li>Strong Interpersonal skills</li><li>Avid learner and generous teacher</li><li>The ability to function in a team environment. </li><li>Hands-on configuration and operational knowledge of Juniper and other Vendors “Security and Routing Products”.</li></ul><p><br></p><strong> Preferred Qualifications </strong><p><br></p>The IDEAL candidate for this role will be able to demonstrate the following competencies:<p><br></p><ul><li>Strong Knowledge about Network Security and Telecommunication Networks</li><li>5+ years experience in managing large technical account activity revolving around network security products from multiple vendors. </li><li>JNCIE (SEC, or equivalent ) is a plus.</li><li>Knowledge of Juniper MX, EX, IP Fabric and Metafabric is a plus.</li><li>Fluent in reading writing English Language</li></ul><p><br></p>
