Resident Engineer

PAY: $55-60/hour W2. Our company offers our consultants a suite of benefits after a qualification period including health, vision, dental, life and disability insurance.
This is an onsite role in Middletown, NJ
Key Responsibilities

• Perform laboratory testing, certification, and validation of Juniper networking solutions and architectures.
• Develop, execute, and document test plans for new hardware, software releases, and customer network designs.
• Configure, troubleshoot, and validate advanced networking features using Junos OS.
• Conduct interoperability and performance testing using industry-standard test equipment.
• Create detailed technical reports, configuration guides, test results, and operational procedures.
• Deliver technical presentations and knowledge transfer sessions to engineering and operations teams.
• Design, configure, and deploy customer network solutions utilizing Juniper routing, switching, security, and cloud-managed platforms.
• Support implementation teams and customer deployments across enterprise and service provider environments.
• Develop resilient WAN architectures leveraging Metro Ethernet, Internet, and LTE backup services.
• Provide technical leadership during customer onboarding, migration, and troubleshooting activities.
• Collaborate with Telecommunication engineering teams and customers to ensure successful solution deployment and operational readiness.

• Produce clear, concise, and comprehensive technical documentation.
• Create deployment guides, implementation standards, engineering procedures, and certification reports.
• Present technical findings, recommendations, and deployment strategies to internal engineering teams and customers.

Requirements

• The ideal candidate is a senior-level networking professional who combines deep Juniper technical expertise with strong communication and customer engagement skills. They are equally comfortable certifying new technologies in a lab environment, creating technical documentation, presenting findings to engineering teams, and deploying complex customer networks in production environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Juniper routing, switching, and security technologies.
• Demonstrated knowledge equivalent to JNCIP-level proficiency (certification not required) with hands-on configuration and troubleshooting experience involving Multicast, GRE Tunnels, IPSec VPNs, NAT, BGP, OSPF, IPv6, Class of Service (CoS), Routing Instances, J-Flow, Real-Time, RPM, VRRP, and SNMP
• Experience configuring, deploying, and troubleshooting: Juniper Platforms: SRX, MX, EX and QFX equipment. The SRXs will mostly be SRX3XX / SRX4XX series, and some larger recently released Mid-Range models. The MXs are typically: MX204, MX301, MX304, MX240, and MX480. The EXs and QFXs are typically the smaller fixed configuration models: EX3400, EX4X00, EX4650 and QFX5120.
• Proven experience in both laboratory certification/testing and customer-facing network implementations.
• Experience integrating LTE/5G technologies for WAN resiliency and failover.

Preferred Qualifications

• JNCIP, JNCIS, JNCIE, or equivalent Juniper certifications.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise and service provider environments.
• Experience with SD-WAN and cloud-managed network architectures.
• Knowledge of carrier-grade WAN services and Metro Ethernet technologies.

Who We Are:
The Fountain Group is a nationwide staffing firm with over 80 Fortune 100-500 clients. Since 2001, TFG has maintained a consistent standard of excellence, and our work is broadly recognized every year through numerous industry performance awards. Our success is a team effort.
Browse our website below for additional information on our company.
The Fountain Group
3407 W Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Tampa, FL 33607
"We work in Life Sciences, Clinical, Engineering, IT, and more. Above all, we specialize in people."

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