Professional Services Consultant – Data Center & IP Fabric SDN

Professional Services Consultant – Data Center & IP Fabric Sdn

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. 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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

About the Role

Bringing state-of-the-art Data Center automation to its customers. It provides integrated design, deployment, and management of VXLAN / EVPN Clos fabric networks in a vendor-agnostic way through a single pane of glass. Using advanced automation technology, manual, bespoke design, and operational tasks have become a thing of the past.

What You'll Do

Responsibilities:

• This position will be an Individual Contributor Role
• Run requirements and scoping workshops with customers, delivery partners, and sales.
• Acting as a Technical lead for significant network deployments and migrations where responsibilities include delivery of Professional Services milestones, including creating high-level and low-level design documentation, migration planning, product integration, and acceptance.
• Follow the Juniper Professional Services engagement and delivery processes, working closely with the Project Manager.
• Work closely with colleagues and customer personnel to help test, design, and plan for deployments of new products and features.
• Support networks in the early stages of deployment
• Formulate network management strategies
• Act as a Professional Services project leader on larger projects, coordinating the work of a larger delivery team and owning overall responsibility for network implementation.
• Provide appropriate training (Knowledge Transfer workshops) to Juniper Networks partners and customers.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with the customer's technical management and teams.
• Participation in requirements gathering workshops, discussions, and meetings with Customer's Design, Test, and/or Engineering Teams
• Providing input related to 'best practices in design, implementation, and/or migration planning, and validation & verification testing
• Assisting with hand-over to Operations or to a Juniper Networks Operational RE
• Tracking and reporting of issues found during testing, Implementation and migration.

What You Need To Bring

Must have skills:

• Expert communication and interpersonal skills.
• Effective consultancy, planning & communication skills, excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work on multiple projects and manage customers appropriately.
• The mature 'customer first' focus
• Strong planning and designing experience.
• Commitment to delivering a remarkable customer experience.
• Excellent and deep hands-on and planning capabilities in advanced Data Center technologies – VxLAN, EVPN, MCLAG, IP Fabric
• Strong knowledge of IP-related protocols, including IS-IS, OSPF, BGP, RSVP, LDP, QOS solutions, and IPv6 standards/protocols
• Familiar with any DC fabric SDN/manager/orchestration tool
• Hands-on experience with Linux servers and network services (DHCP, SNMP, FTP, TFTP, DNS, NTP).
• Basic knowledge of data structures, algorithms, HTTP/REST APIs
• Familiar with Linux, Python, and version control systems such as Git
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Desirable Education and Experience

Bachelor's or Master of Science in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar discipline

6+ years' experience in the enterprise/telco/content provider Data Center environment.

Desirable Skills:

• JUNOS skills and hands-on planning capabilities with QFX, EX, and MX Series products.

Additional Skills:

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), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Process Improvements, Product Services, Relationship Building

What We Can Offer You:

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.