Posted on: Jan 05, 2017 Current Date: Mar 26, 2025 Position: Network Consultant Location: Austin, TX Duration: 12 Months Experience: 7 to 10 Years is a must This position is located at the at the customer site and requires an experienced candidate in OpenStack, Contrail, SDN technologies, Networking & Routing Protocols. Responsibilities: * Understand the customer's organizational structure and become familiar with the customer's processes and procedures. * Carry out testing of new tools, 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 * Test patches and fixes to operating software and to ensure that they are implemented and functioning correctly in the pre-production test environment and then live network as implementation plans dictate. * Become familiar with the Customer's implementation, support processes, and procedures to help in designing tools that are sustainable. * Build tools for automating the network and processes used to keep the network operating * Develop web-based frontends for tools used in automating network processes * Understand unit and functional testing for tools. * Support ongoing efforts in defining best practice policies for Juniper automation applications used by Customer * To peer with other employees performing similar Resident Engineering roles where lessons learned may help minimize risk. * Produce a written report of the status of projects on a regular basis Skills/Required Experience: Candidates should have a Bachelors Degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience. * Expert with hands-on experience in Openstack, Contrail, Overlay and Underlay technologies, Hypervisors, Linux and other SDN-related technologies * Experience in a scripting language as such as Python, Perl or similar * 3-5 years' experience supporting Service Provider IP/MPLS netwks * Expert understanding of MPLS enabled networks and apps (l3vpn, l2tp, vpls,etc) * Expert understanding of OSPF and BGP protocols Candidates should be able to demonstrate the following competencies: * Expert level with hands-on experience in Openstack, Contrail, Docker, Overlay and Underlay technologies, Hypervisors, Containers, Linux and other SDN-related technologies * Programming and scripting experience a must (C, Node.js, Python) * Front-end web development a plus (HTML, CSS, Javascript, backbone, templating) * Strong Interpersonal skills. * The ability to work independently and to function in a team environment. * Strong customer interface and presentation skills * Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects Posted - 3002 days ago