Network Engineer_Juniper Routing and Switching

Role & responsibilities

Juniper Routing & Switching

• 8-10 years of overall network engineering or network operations experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on Juniper routing and switching experience.
• Provide L3 operational support for enterprise LAN, WAN, campus, branch, and data center environments built on Juniper technologies.
• Configure, administer, and troubleshoot Juniper EX, QFX, MX, and SRX platforms.
• Diagnose complex routing and switching issues affecting critical business services and lead service restoration activities.
• Configure and troubleshoot BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, VRRP, EVPN-VXLAN, STP/RSTP/MSTP, multicast, VLANs, link aggregation, and QoS.
• Perform network upgrades, migrations, hardware refreshes, code upgrades, and high-availability validation.
• Analyze packet captures, logs, routing tables, protocol adjacencies, interface statistics, and traffic flows to isolate faults.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions for recurring or high-impact issues.
• Review configurations for standards compliance, resilience, performance, and security hardening.

Operations, Governance & Technical Leadership

• Own or support P1/P2 major incidents, participate in technical bridge calls, and provide clear stakeholder updates.
• Execute incident, service request, change, problem, and configuration management activities in line with ITIL practices.
• Prepare implementation plans, method of procedure documents, rollback plans, risk assessments, and post-change validation reports.
• Engage Juniper TAC and other OEM vendors for complex defects, software bugs, and hardware issues.
• Monitor capacity, availability, performance, and recurring trends; recommend optimization and continuous improvement actions.
• Mentor L1/L2 engineers, conduct technical reviews, and contribute to knowledge articles, SOPs, runbooks, and network diagrams.
• Participate in solution reviews, transition activities, project implementations, audits, and operational readiness assessments.

Peferred candidate profile

• Deep understanding of TCP/IP, enterprise LAN/WAN design principles, routing protocols, switching technologies, high availability, and network resiliency.
• Demonstrated experience supporting large-scale, business-critical, multi-site or global enterprise networks.
• Strong command-line troubleshooting skills in Junos OS and the ability to interpret logs, telemetry, packet captures, and protocol outputs.
• Experience handling major incidents, complex changes, problem management, vendor escalations, and technical documentation.