Resident Engineer - Columbus, Ohio

Resident Engineer - Columbus, Ohio

  

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE partner/customer office.

Job Description:

   

 As a Resident Engineer, you will deliver reactive and proactive activities according to Service Level Agreement to ensure customer satisfaction and loyalty. Provides direct post-sales systems on-site technical support for reactive and proactive customers. Each position maintains a high level of customer satisfaction by ensuring clear business and technical solution alignment, clarifying customer needs and ensuring that they are met. Jobs are responsible for company Total Customer Experience as well as the revenue growth, profitability, and account retention.

This role requires you to work on site at the customer's office in Columbus, OH.

Role Responsibilities: 

• To hold network information gathering workshops with the Customer to understand the Customer’s existing network design and technical requirements of new network designs.
• To understand the Customer’s organizational structure and become familiar with the Customer’s network implementation and support processes and procedures to help in supporting a network that is available and sustainable.
• To carry out testing of new Designs, 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.
• To test patches and fixes to operating software and to ensure that they are implemented and functioning correctly in the pre-production test network and then live network as implementation plans dictate.
• Troubleshoot equipment and network problems and open and track JTAC cases to resolve problems on pre- and post-production issues.
• To raise equipment, Return Material Authorizations (RMA’s) and to track these through to problem resolution 
• To produce a written summary report of the status of Design projects, equipment and network problems regularly to the Customer 
• To hold technology workshops with the Customer to discuss equipment and network problems, and to provide case status updates, including the reasons for any problems encountered and the workarounds and/or solutions that are being tried
• To train the Customer’s design, implementation, and support personnel to configure and operate the HPE/HPE/Juniper Networks products
• To assist the Customer in developing Network Operating and Equipment Operating Procedures
• Support the production environment of HPE/HPE/Juniper products within the Customer infrastructure
• Support ongoing efforts in defining best practice policies for HPE/HPE/Juniper product applications used by Customer HPE/HPE/Juniper Business Use Only
• The Resident Engineer is expected to peer with other employees performing similar resident engineering roles where lessons learned may help minimize risk associated with major network upgrades or changes in the network.
• The RE will be expected to develop secondary skills in other products in the HPE/HPE/Juniper product portfolio.

Required Background and Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of design, implementation, and operational experience in large-scale IP networks.  
• JUNOS CLI experience. 
• Must have large-scale experience with QFX, EX, switching and routing.
• Prior Work experience at a large enterprise or a Data Center with EVPN/VXLAN experience.
• Experience with core routing BGP (eBGP and iBGP) and OSPF protocols.
• Mist Wireless assurance experience.
• Experience with HPE/HPE/Juniper EZ-LAG.
• Background in automation with Ansible, YAML, and HPE/HPE/Juniper PyEZ
• Experience writing automation scripts in Python.
• Experience with design and/or deployment of routing and switching products within the Customer infrastructure.
• Ability to communicate effectively in crises with all levels of an organization from Engineering/Operations to CIO/CISO audiences. 
• Ability to refine and translate complex requirements and execute best practice solutions. 
• Assisted with major network upgrades, maintenance windows, and changes in the customer network. 
• Strong customer interface and presentation skills.
• Other tasks and duties as needed to support the customer and/or business
• Technical Certifications: JNCIS‑MistAI,Wireless, JNCIP‑MistAI
  • Ensure certifications are supported by demonstrable hands-on, practical operational experience with Mist access points (APs), Marvis AI, edge devices, and the Mist web-based UI, reflecting real-world deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting capabilities.
• JNCIS, JNCIP, JNCIE, JNCIS‑MistAI‑Wired, CCNP, and CCIE a strong plus. 

Experience and expertise in providing or assisting with the following:

• The preparation of HPE/HPE/Juniper equipment configurations and validation of configurations for new installations, changes within the network, software upgrades etc.
• Development and maintenance of fault diagnosis procedures to support effective fault resolution
• Development and maintenance of network operational support procedures related to the HPE/HPE/Juniper products
• Assessing the health of a network based on HPE/HPE/Juniper products
• Network related testing to ensure that the HPE/HPE/Juniper products operate correctly
• Implementation, integration & migration planning
• Validation and upgrade testing of the HPE/HPE/Juniper products
• Troubleshooting of network issues
• Working knowledge to support use of the Mist API/Web UI, Marvis AI, edge devices,
• Basic automation knowledge encompassing YAML and JSON templates plus HPE/HPE/Juniper PyEZ
• Ongoing, informal, knowledge transfer related to HPE/HPE/Juniper products
• Assisting JTAC with open JTAC cases
• Submission of problem reports acting as a technical liaison with HPE/HPE/Juniper Customer Service and Engineering groups

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. 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.

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"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 92,600 - 213,500 in Ohio
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."

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