Network Systems Engineer
Westford, MA

Job Description

About the Position:

Juniper Networks has an immediate opening for a team-oriented, highly effective and motivated individual to be part of Juniper Enterprise SE Sales Team. A Systems Engineer (SE) is a unique individual who combines the communications skills to build strong professional relationships with the technical skills to develop compelling network solutions that solve customers' business issues

Responsibilities:

Your primary responsibility is to assist account managers and our partners with the technical sales activities in new and existing opportunities. You should possess a strong technical aptitude, the ability to learn quickly, strong interpersonal skills, strong presentation skills, and troubleshooting skills. We work in a very dynamic environment. This position does require travel for 50-75% of the time, primarily local to the Connecticut / New England customers and partners. The position is based in New England covering the Connecticut Territory .

* Build and maintain strong professional relationships with IT decision makers within assigned accounts, territory accounts and resellers.
* Perform technical presentations for customers, partners and prospects. Communicate highly technical concepts to a variety of audiences, including executive level technical decision-makers.
* Design and provide Next Gen Network Architectures for our customers.
* Set up demonstrations and explain features and benefits to our customers.
* Ability and experience to conduct proof of concepts to meet customer requirements
* Develop compelling, secure and saleable Juniper network designs (including detailed bills of materials and network diagrams) to meet specific customer needs.
* Stay current on relevant competitive solutions, products and services.
* Assist with the development of formal sales plans and proposals for assigned opportunities.

Minimum Qualifications:

EXPERIENCE

* A minimum of 5 years of experience as a pre-sales SE for a network vendor / reseller or 8 plus years network engineering experience.
* Strong hands-on experience with Juniper solutions or equivalent
* Experience, design and working knowledge of network and data center security.
* Experience designing/building campus networks, data centers and WANs.
* JNCIE or CCIE highly desirable.

REQUIRED SKILLS - NETWORKING FUNDAMENTALS

* IP Network Protocols
* Route / Switch L2/L3 technologies
* EVPN / VXLAN
* Detailed knowledge and working ability of related network security technologies - NGFW, VPN, Threat Prevention

Preferred Qualifications:

DESIRED SKILLS - AUTOMATION AND VIRTUALIZATION

Python, OpenStack, VMWare/NSX, Contrail, Automation

Other Information:

* This position is home office based in MA.
* Travel is required for customer meetings. Travel is required on occasion to Sunnyvale HQ, Westford MA and other Juniper facilities.