Resident Engineer, TS/SCI with Poly, Columbia/Fort Meade, MD, Onsite

Resident Engineer, TS/SCI with Poly, Columbia/Fort Meade, MD, OnsiteUS Citizenship requiredClearance requirement: TS/SCI w/Full Scope PolygraphFull-time on-site position at a customer location in the Columbia/Ft. Meade area. This is not a remote position.Job DescriptionKey Responsibilities:Operations and maintenance of a data center networkDeep understanding of routing and switching technologies commonly implemented in data center networks including EVPN, Multicast, OSPF, BGP, RSVP, LDP, Pseudo wires, L2VPN, L3VPN, MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE), Routing Policies, and associated tunneling technologies (GRE, VXLAN, etc.).Juniper products to be supported: QFX, MX, EX, SRXExperience with Juniper products a plus, but not a requirementIdeal Strengths:Motivation, a self-starter that can take direction but also identify and engage in areas to improve network design and operationStrong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skillsAbility to prioritize work activity to achieve customer and account team goalsAbility to effectively work under pressure with customer engineers and JTAC to resolve hardware and software issues and implement solutionsAbility to effectively troubleshoot equipment and network problems & to open/track JTAC cases through to problem resolutionAbility to effectively communicate case status updates and deliver root cause analysisSupport informal and formal technology briefings and training sessionsDesired Qualifications:Engineering Design/Architecture, Operational, and Support experience in a medium to large scale data center networkJuniper and/or other vendor certifications a strong plusAutomation and DevOps knowledge a plusAutomation access methods: XML API, NETCONF, REST API, gRPCPython tools: RPCs, REST, PyEZ, ncclientAnsible: Playbooks and Jinja2 templatesAutomation scripts: Commit, Op, Event, or SNMP scripts; Python and SLAX