Senior Network Technology Consultant

Senior Network Technology Consultant

  

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

Job Description:

   

This is a highly technical and customer-facing role, providing primarily post-sales consulting delivery under the HPE Networking HTS/PS APJ Team. The role covers Architectural, Design and Implementation Consultancy services for HPE Juniper Networks Products and Solutions. The consultant is expected to drive overall customer solution development and deliver the solution to meet the customer’s business objectives, while managing within the confines of the agreed scope and effort. The consultant is also expected to be able to manage deviations to scope as part of change management and change handling.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with Account teams and Project delivery teams to enable customer consumption of standard PS offerings, through Firm Fixed Statement of Work engagements or Time and Material engagements.
• Collaborate with Customers, Sales, Account, and Business Development teams to understand the unique customer use cases and desired outcomes to enable proper positioning of PS offerings.
• Provide integration of multiple PS offers into solutions for customers.
• Collaborate with the customer on alignment / inclusion of Juniper solutions into Customer’s Enterprise Architecture.
• Consultation and collaboration with multiple (internal and external) parties, including customers, to understand business and technical requirements, to provide, develop, deploy and/or integrate a solution.
• Present and deliver solutions via projects; some basic project management by the consultant may be required, e.g. scope, effort, time and problem management.
• Subject Matter Expert in one or more HPE Juniper Networks products/solutions, preferably in the Service Provider space.
• Creation or development of marketable and deployable solutions based on HPE Juniper Networks products/solutions.
• Create necessary high-quality documentation and/or presentations to share knowledge and experience in areas of expertise, so to increase the overall effectiveness and efficiency of PS.
• Provide consultancy to customers to assess technical needs, gap analysis and recommendations to address their business requirements.
• Create necessary high quality high-level and low-level network design documentation.
• Utilize skills and experience to contribute to the development of team objectives and to achieve goals in effective and efficient ways.
• Provide (technical and non-technical) leadership and guidance to junior consultants or colleagues, as part of professional give back and/or mentoring.
• Prepared to travel if necessary for customer engagements.
• Prepared to willingly and constantly share knowledge within the team through TOI and Lessons learned for the betterment and improvement of other team members.

About You:

• Has extensive experience delivering complex and large-scale network solutions in the Service Provider and/or Enterprise customer space.
• Deep knowledge of protocols and technologies such as BGP, OSPF, ISIS, SR-MPLS, SRv6, L3VPN, EVPN, VXLAN, CoS.
• Experience with the deployment of HPE Juniper platforms including MX, PTX EX, QFX and SRX.
• General understanding of HPE Juniper security solutions and technologies as an integral part of any solution.
• Demonstrate experience and understanding of network automation and orchestration tools and the ability to select the appropriate tools for various use cases.
• Has Professional Services consulting and business consulting experience, including conflict management, negotiation skills, stakeholder management skills and hands on delivery experience of technical projects.
• Demonstrates an excellent understanding of the industry, the customer's business issues, and the most appropriate solution architecture to meet their business goals.
• Strong Architectural background including plan, design, and implement phases and best practices adoption.
• Able to bridge the business imperatives and supporting technical solutions that enable the business goals and objectives to be delivered.
• Capable of operating autonomously and with initiative or when required under direction; ability to decide when either is best.
• Capable of prioritization and making timely decisions even in difficult situations and is responsible and accountable for decisions and actions.
• High drive to succeed by direct contribution or when necessary, via collaboration and influence; ability to decide when either is best.
• Expert (verbal and written) communication and interpersonal skills; capable of communicating with audience from different levels and diverse backgrounds, and, maintaining relationships even in difficult situations. Strong in technical documentation and presentations.
• Strong collaboration and leadership skills; capable of leading others using influence, communication, relationship and/or timing.
• Capable of understanding one’s own strengths and weaknesses and leveraging the former and mitigating the latter.
• Advocates the use of Professional Services and helps define the PS proposition where an opportunity arises.
• Ensures best practice methods are used for scoping and delivery of new technology and solutions.
• Closely monitors progress and quality as well as risks and delays.
• Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles.
• Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results that are the most conducive to the customer environment and assignment.
• Willingness to do face-to-face work and in person collaboration with the customers and internal teams where possible, to enable effectiveness in building trust and fostering stronger relationships.

Supervision

• Generally required to perform work with minimal supervision.
• Act independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments.
• Possibly supervises the activities of other consultants assigned to deliver the solution.

Experience

• Typically requires 12-15 years of related Network experience.
• Bachelors or MS degree in Computer Science or Computer/Electrical Engineering.
• Business related qualifications and product certifications on specific solutions that make up the consultant’s solutions areas.
• Expert-level (JNCIE, CCIE) networking certifications are desired as appropriate

Other Job Specifications

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong collaboration and leadership skills.
• Strong conflict management skills.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Strong industry expertise.

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Business Growth, Client Expectations Management, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Centric Solutions, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Process Improvements, Product Services, Relationship Building {+ 5 more}

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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Job:

Services

Job Level:

TCP_04

    

    

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