Senior Resident Network Engineer – Routing & WAN – freelance – onsite – Aurora, Colorado, USA
Comgent
- Location
- Onsite (Aurora, Colorado)
- Employment
- Contract
- Level
- Senior Level
About the role
Comgent is recruiting a Senior Resident Network Engineer to support routing and WAN operations within a large-scale service-provider environment. The role involves maintaining network infrastructure, assisting with deployments, and troubleshooting complex operational issues.
Skills
Full job details
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Comgent is seeking a Senior Resident Network Engineer to support routing and WAN operations in a large-scale service-provider environment. You will work with customer engineers and other delivery specialists on network deployments, changes and implementation testing, while serving as a primary technical contact for operational problems.
Assignment
- Location: Aurora, Colorado, USA
- Engagement: freelance / contract
- Work arrangement: Onsite
- Schedule: 40 hours per week
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.
Requirements
Requirements
- Relevant experience: 10+ years.
- Multicast, OSPF, BGP, RSVP, LDP, pseudowires, L2/L3VPN, MPLS-TE, routing policy, MACsec, IPsec, GRE; WAN/BGP and MPLS traffic engineering.
- Technology environment: CTP, MX, EX, SRX; Juniper experience preferred, not mandatory.
- Required clearance: TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
- Education: College degree desirable, not required.
Desirable skills
- Juniper or other vendor certifications
Competencies
The role requires engineering design, operational and support experience in medium-to-large ISP environments. You should understand BGP topologies and WAN transport methods, with intermediate-to-expert knowledge of MPLS deployments and traffic engineering.