Consulting Sales Engineer

About the Position:

Juniper Networks has an immediate opening for a team-oriented, highly effective, and motivated individual in Juniper’s Cloud Vertical Sales Engineering Organization. Sales Engineers are a critical component of the Juniper sales team and have a primary responsibility to assist Juniper Account Managers with the technical sales activities in new and existing opportunities. Sales Engineers have in-depth, hands-on experience with Juniper's products and services as well as competitor's products and services, and can demonstrate solid inter-networking and security skills to customers and business partners. Sales Engineers assist with understanding customers' requirements, the design of Juniper solutions, delivering sales presentations, presenting technical information about products and services, conducting product demonstrations, installing product evaluations, presenting/training at seminars, and assisting with RFP and RFI responses.

 Responsibilities:

A successful candidate will:

• Possess an understanding of Next Generation network architectures and use cases - Campus and Data Center Switching, IP/MPLS routing, Cloud Based Solutions, Network Services, Content Delivery Networks, Packet Optical and Cloud Security. Understanding of TCP/IP and related protocols: Ethernet, Optics, Fiber, OSPF, ISIS, Segment Routing, L2VPN, L3VPN, GRE, IPSec, NAT, HTTP, NetConf, BGP, MPLS, EVPN-VXLAN, Multicast
• Develop and maintain full working technical mastery of the entire Juniper product portfolio
• Build and maintain strong professional relationships with technical decision makers and stay up-to-date on Juniper product roadmaps, specifications, performance criteria, in addition to competitors’ solutions, amongst others
• Build and Lead proposal development, solution demonstrations, proof-of-concept test design & execution
• Possess ability to communicate, both oral and written, on complex technical and sales issues to a variety of audiences, including executive level technical decision-makers
• Work collaboratively within Juniper to highlight emerging customer requirements and use cases, convey competitive landscape, and coordinate with Juniper and partner professional services to ensure implementations meet or exceed customer expectations
• Develop solutions that meet customers’ requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of industry experience in networking industry with at least 3 years of Support or Pre-Sales engineering experience with large datacenter and campus networks
• Bachelors or Masters in EE/CS or equivalent
• Strong knowledge of WAN, DC and Campus design and technologies 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands on with Juniper products and solutions
• 8+ years of industry experience in networking industry, 5 in pre-sales
• Strong oral and presentation skills are a must
• Automation programming skills (Python, Ansible, Puppet, Chef), network virtualization, containerization, and Software Defined Networking (SDN) knowledge is required
• Expert-level Juniper certifications (JNCIP/JNCIE) in Service Provider Routing, Enterprise and Data Center Switching areas are highly desired

Other Information:

• Travel requirements for the position 25%

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Minimum Salary: $217,600.00

Maximum Salary:$312,800.00

The pay range for this position is expected to be between $217,600.00 and $312,800.00/year; however, the base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position also includes medical benefits, 401(k) eligibility, vacation, sick time, and parental leave. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Juniper’s pay range data is provided in accordance with local state pay transparency regulations. Juniper may post different minimum wage ranges for permanent residency petitions pursuant to US Department of Labor requirements.