Senior Resident Network Engineer – Routing & WAN – freelance – onsite – Aurora, Colorado, USA
About The Position
Comgent is seeking a Senior Resident Network Engineer to support routing and WAN operations in a large-scale service-provider environment. The engineer will work with customer engineers and delivery specialists on network deployments, changes, and implementation testing, and serve as a primary technical contact for operational problems. The assignment is onsite in Aurora, Colorado, for 40 hours per week as a freelance/contract engagement. The role involves operating and maintaining the service-provider network and supporting customer projects that change or extend the deployed environment. It requires engineering design, operational, and support experience in medium-to-large ISP environments, along with understanding of BGP topologies and WAN transport methods and intermediate-to-expert knowledge of MPLS deployments and traffic engineering.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant experience.
- Knowledge of multicast, OSPF, BGP, RSVP, LDP, pseudowires, L2/L3VPN, MPLS-TE, routing policy, MACsec, IPsec, and GRE.
- WAN/BGP and MPLS traffic-engineering knowledge.
- Experience with the CTP, MX, EX, and SRX technology environment.
- Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph.
- Engineering design, operational, and support experience in medium-to-large ISP environments.
- Understanding of BGP topologies and WAN transport methods.
- Intermediate-to-expert knowledge of MPLS deployments and traffic engineering.
Nice To Haves
- Juniper experience; other vendor experience may also be relevant.
- Juniper or other vendor certifications.
- A college degree is desirable but not required.
Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain the service-provider network, supporting customer projects that change or extend the deployed environment.
- Assist customer engineers with new network installations, deployment planning, implementation plans, and solution testing.
- Investigate equipment, hardware, software, and network faults; gather diagnostic evidence; and engage vendor technical support for resolution.
- Open and track support cases, provide clear technical documentation, and communicate incident progress and root-cause findings.
- Apply detailed routing, WAN, and MPLS knowledge to troubleshoot services and support reliable network operation.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Senior
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