Resident Engineer – SP – freelance – hybrid – Budapest, Hungary

• Provide daytoday postsales operational support for production and preproduction End Client network environments.
  
• Troubleshoot complex hardware software and network issues across largescale IP/MPLS infrastructures.
  
• Open manage and drive Juniper JTAC cases to resolution including root cause analysis and corrective actions.
  
• Support End Client during critical incidents outages and escalation scenarios communicating clearly with engineering operations and leadership teams.
  
• Conduct network informationgathering workshops to understand End Client current network architecture operational workflows and future design requirements.
  
• Become deeply familiar with customers organizational structure engineering standards and operational procedures.
  
• Provide guidance on network design evolution capacity growth and technology adoption aligned with customers roadmap.
  
• Assist with major network upgrades maintenance windows migrations and change events.
  
• Produce clear concise written reports detailing project progress network health assessments identified issues and remediation activities.
  
• Lead technology and operations workshops to review ongoing issues and JTAC case status and explain root causes mitigations and longterm solutions.
  
• Train End Client engineering implementation and operations teams on configuration monitoring and daytoday operation of HPE Juniper Networks platforms.
  
• Assess overall network health and stability across HPE Juniperbased environments.
  
• Develop and maintain fault isolation and diagnostic procedures.
  
• Create and review customer SOPs and MOPs to identify procedural gaps or anomalies that could result in network or service outages.
  
• Contribute to bestpractice policies and standards for HPE Juniper product usage within End Client.
  
• Peer with other Resident Engineers to share lessons learned and reduce risk during network changes.
  
• Develop secondary expertise across additional HPE Juniper product lines as required.
  
• Perform lab testing design validation tests (DVT) certification and integration of new hardware and major software releases prior to production deployment.
  
• Maintain a robust release management DB to enhance the stability and solve security vulnerabilities from 3rd party security release reports.
  
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and use of AI tools to reduce operational toil improve consistency and accuracy and accelerate troubleshooting and provisioning.
  
• Write and support Pythonbased automation tools for configuration validation health checks.
  
• Assist End Client engineering and operations teams in adopting network automation tools.
  
• Contribute to documentation and internal tooling repositories supporting ongoing automation initiatives.
  
• Track and triage on PBN (Proactive Bug Notification) and SIRT (Security Incident Response Team) and document security gaps. Identify likelihood of hitting software bugs and security vulnerability. Seek a permanent remediation or a workaround till a final resolution is available.
  
• Held frequent meetings with the customer and SM to discuss JTAC cases progression and solutions and provide the required actions to articulate customers inquiries.
  

• 5 years of handson design deployment and operational experience in largescale service provide networks.
  
• Experience in supporting major network transformations upgrades or expansions.
  
• Strong experience with JUNOS CLI.
  
• Largescale handson experience with: MX QFX EX ACX and PTX platforms
  
• Strong understanding of service provider networking technologies including:
  

• TCP/IP and MPLS fundamentals
  
• Routing protocols: OSPF ISIS BGP
  
• MPLSTE RSVP LDP SR and SRv6.
  
• IPv4 / IPv6
  
• BGP routing policy and peering
  
• VPN technologies: L3VPN VPLS MVPN
  
• Ethernet switching 802.1Q
  
• QoS / Class of Service
  
• EVPN.
  

• Broadband services and BNG.
  
• Handson experience with Scripting Python and Juniper PyEZ.
  
• Hands-on Traffic steering and Traffic Engineering Software (Paragon/JRD)
  
• Ability to design automation solutions that integrate with existing operational workflows.
  
• Excellent communication skills during highpressure outage or escalation scenarios.
  
• Ability to present complex technical topics to engineering operations and executive audiences.
  
• Strong customerfacing skills with a collaborative consultative approach.
  
• Ability to translate business and technical requirements into practical scalable network solutions.
  
• Expert-level Technical Certifications: JNCIP JNCIE CCNP and CCIE.