Lead Professional Services Consultant – Data Center & IP Fabric SDN

Role: Professional Services Consultant – Data Center & IP Fabric SDN

Location: Bangalore
About the Position:
 

This highly technical role provides Architectural, Design, and Implementation Consultancy services for Junipers Networks Solutions targeted at Service Provider customers. The consultant must develop and maintain Data Center architecture & solutions expertise and apply network automation through Fabric SDN controllers such as Juniper Apstra to ease their implementations and operations. 

This role is a full-time post-sales position on-site and remote, working as part of a wider Juniper Professional Services team. This role will require 10% travel.

What is Juniper Apstra?

Apstra is Juniper’s newest acquisition, bringing state-of-the-art Data Center automation to its customers. It provides integrated design, deployment, and management of VXLAN / EVPN Clos fabric networks in a vendor-agnostic way through a single pane of glass. Using advanced automation technology, manual, bespoke design, and operational tasks have become a thing of the past.

Responsibilities:
 

• This position will be an Individual Contributor Role
• Run requirements and scoping workshops with customers, delivery partners, and sales.
• Acting as a Technical lead for significant network deployments and migrations where responsibilities include delivery of Professional Services milestones, including creating high-level and low-level design documentation, migration planning, product integration, and acceptance.
• Follow the Juniper Professional Services engagement and delivery processes, working closely with the Project Manager.
• Work closely with colleagues and customer personnel to help test, design, and plan for deployments of new products and features.
• Support networks in the early stages of deployment
• Formulate network management strategies
• Act as a Professional Services project leader on larger projects, coordinating the work of a larger delivery team and owning overall responsibility for network implementation.
• Provide appropriate training (Knowledge Transfer workshops) to Juniper Networks partners and customers.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with the customer's technical management and teams.
• Participation in requirements gathering workshops, discussions, and meetings with Customer’s Design, Test, and/or Engineering Teams
• Providing input related to ‘best practices in design, implementation, and/or migration planning, and validation & verification testing
• Assisting with hand-over to Operations or to a Juniper Networks Operational RE
• Tracking and reporting of issues found during testing, Implementation and migration

Must Have Skills

• Expert communication and interpersonal skills.
• Effective consultancy, planning & communication skills, excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work on multiple projects and manage customers appropriately.
• The mature “customer first” focus
• Strong planning and designing experience.
• Commitment to delivering a remarkable customer experience.
• Excellent and deep hands-on and planning capabilities in advanced Data Center technologies – VxLAN, EVPN, MCLAG, IP Fabric
• Strong knowledge of IP-related protocols, including IS-IS, OSPF, BGP, RSVP, LDP, QOS solutions, and IPv6 standards/protocols
• Familiar with any DC fabric SDN/manager/orchestration tool
• Hands-on experience with Linux servers and network services (DHCP, SNMP, FTP, TFTP, DNS, NTP).
• Basic knowledge of data structures, algorithms, HTTP/REST APIs
• Familiar with Linux, Python, and version control systems such as Git
• Fluent in English and Spanish and have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

 Desirable Education and Experience:

• Bachelor or Master of Science in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar discipline
• 5+ years’ experience in the enterprise/telco/content provider Data Center environment 

 Desirable Skills:

• JUNOS skills and hands-on planning capabilities with QFX, EX, and MX Series products.

Juniper is an Equal Opportunity workplace and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate in employment decisions on the basis of race, colour, 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. 

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. 

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