Sr. Network Technical Support

Hewlett Packard Enterprise•Kanata, ON

1d•CA$114,300 - CA$164,300•Hybrid

About The Position

This position is newly created and currently vacant. All interested candidates are encouraged to apply. This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office. Who We Are: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. Job Description: HPE's customers typically test the traditional bounds of what can be done and as such, they increasingly rely on HPE Juniper experts from ARC(CFTS) to effectively resolve their problems and provide extensive and reliable feedback on root cause and future prevention techniques. We are seeking a Sr. Network Technical Supportto apply your extensive experience supporting large-scale networks; as well as broad product knowledge in either routing, switching or security (firewalls). Your ability to troubleshoot network issues; diagnose critical and complex network issues; and learn your customer’s infrastructure and technologies; are what bring you applause, success and thanks in the Support organization. Become part of a team that is well known for their technical expertise and ability to resolve customer problems in a highly effective and rewarding fashion. Customers expect and receive a “white glove” treatment and which is exemplified in the level of customer success seen in those customers supported by ARC(CFTS).

Requirements

Higher education (Bachelor or Master degree in electrical engineering or computer science or equivalent )
3+ years of working experience in a network support role, 2-3 of these years would be spent supporting large IP networks
3+ years supporting customers on site and via phone. Must be able to support complex and high profile customer base.
Strong communication skills, including influencing and collaboration skills, are a must.
Strong problem solving skills, applicable to large and complex network scenarios
Strong customer management and customer service skills.
Excellent presentation skills.
IP Networking basics: TCP/IP, Subnetting, IP Packet flow, OSI layers
Routing Technologies : OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MPLS, RSVP-TE, L3VPN, L2VPN

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of EVPN, SR-MPLS, SRV6
Working experience with Ixia/Spirent traffic generators, TCP replay tools and network protocols analysis tools
Working experience with: Linux, FreeBSD, Scripting languages (Shell, Python, Slax, Perl)
Strong problem solving skills, applicable to large and complex network scenarios
Strong customer management and customer service skills.
Excellent presentation skills.

Responsibilities

Handle high priority issues for small subset of top HPE Juniper Networks customers on specific Juniper Networks products(s) (MX, PTX, ACX).
Build productive and collaborative trust-based relationships with the assigned accounts
Take ownership of high priority or sensitive customer issues and ensure prompt network services restoration and issue resolution to the customer's satisfaction, by using a systematic problem solving approach
Work closely with various technical teams to ensure knowledge transfer of the customer's networks, issues, teams, and solutions. Keep management informed of all sensitive issues.
Work with various technical teams within Juniper Networks and provide input on new products and feature improvements for reliability, availability, and serviceability
Work closely with the Service Managers to support them in gaining a good understanding of the technical issues and their resolution, and support them in driving high profile technical escalations
Participate in customer conference calls and/or face to face customer meetings to discuss technical issues
Develop and maintain skills in his/her core products and technologies, and highlight any need for training as the customers networks evolve
Contribute to technical documentation (White Papers, KB, Troubleshooting Guides, ) for internal and external use
Sound documentation of technical support issues using the available tools is an essential element of the role
Develop a "Can-Do" attitude and suggest ways to improve the team performance and increase customer's satisfaction