Lead Product Consultant : Network Automation + Cloud architect

At Juniper, we believe the network is the single greatest vehicle for knowledge, understanding, and human advancement the world has ever known.

To achieve real outcomes, we know that experience is the most important requirement for networking teams and the people they serve. Delivering an experience-first, AI-Native Network pivots on the creativity and commitment of our people. It requires a consistent and committed practice, something we call the Juniper Way.

Position: Lead Product Consultant : Network Automation + Cloud architect 

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 12+ years

About Team :The services automation team, part of the Future of Experience (FOX) team,  aims to use AI and automation to discover, evaluate and leverage technology to enhance and simplify the experience of stakeholders. This team understands the customers' challenges, identifies ways to optimise solution delivery, proposes solution based on customer technology needs and delivers them with quality in a timely manner. Each customer solution brings unique challenges and hence the role requires continuous technical upskilling based on market trends. This role is part of Juniper’s strategic future of support team and will involve design of automated solutions. The role requires influencing business transformation projects using technology, review of data to enable process, systems and tool re-engineering in customer support and services..

Responsibilities:

• Work in a consultative manner with consultants, product managers, customers, system engineering, support, sales and customer services to scope the work and deliver projects.
• Run requirements and scoping workshops with the stake holders, delivery partners, and sales.
• Involved in solution deployments, network Automation and implementations.
• Evaluate customer solutions for performance, scalability, and security and provide feedback.
• Develop and maintain an in-depth technical knowledge of the Juniper Networks products. Work with the internal Juniper Networks technical teams for placement of products and feature improvements for reliability, availability, and serviceability.
• Develop advanced ML/AI models leveraging both structured and unstructured datasets for batch and online inferencing use cases within the Customer services domain.
• Collaborate with partners including the executive, product, data, and operations teams to transform business priorities into ML/AI problems and develop solutions.
• Work with MLOps specialists to manage the full life cycle of model development from concept to production.
• Collaborate with data and analytics specialists to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.
• Identify trends and patterns from datasets to scope opportunities for automation.
• Work closely with colleagues and customer personnel to help design, test, automate and plan for deployments of new products and features.
• Support Customer in the early stages of solution deployment.
• Provide appropriate training (Knowledge Transfer workshops) to Juniper Networks partners and customers.
• Reviewing customer provided (technical) information
• Providing input related to ‘best practices’ in solution design, implementation, deployment planning, and validation & verification testing
• Taking ownership of, or assisting with creating Assessment, High-Level Design, Low-Level Design. Test Plans and Implementation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong architecture skills, design and implementation experience.
• Experience in Microservices, domain-driven design and event-driven architectures.
• Strong JUNOS skills and excellent hands-on planning capabilities.
• Excellent and deep hands-on experience in designing / architecting large scale software solutions.
• Deep hands-on in developing software products/projects in object-oriented Python.
• Sound knowledge of SOLID principles, GoF patterns, cloud-native design patterns and experience in Designing Multi-cloud Environments.
• Architecting and developing secure solutions in public cloud environments such as AWS/Azure.
• Strong experience in container-based Cloud Management Platforms (Kubernetes & OpenShift), Kafka, Prometheus, Redis, ELK stack and NoSQL databases.
• Sound knowledge in Networking concepts. Good understanding of networking virtualization in Private clouds - VMware ESXi or OpenStack.
• Hands on experience in DevOps, GitHub, Code Coverage and Unit Testing. Working experience in GIT & JENKINS / GitLab and strong knowledge of branching strategies.
• Experience working with Large Language Models, Generative AI, and Conversational AI. Familiarity with one or more machine learning or statistical modeling tools such as Numpy, ScikitLearn, MLlib, Tensorflow, and NLP libraries.
• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture, assembling large, sophisticated data sets that meet functional/non-functional business requirements.
• Sound knowledge in Ansible, Yang, XML, JINJA & Yaml
• Should have Network Automation fundamentals. Network Management and Telco Cloud exposure is preferable.
• Good Knowledge in Inventory tool such as NetBox / Netcracker.
• Expertise in coding best practices and secure coding practices is essential.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. The candidate will be involved in leading projects and hence good leadership skills are essential.
• Commitment to delivering a remarkable customer experience.

  Experience/Background Desired:

• 12+ years’ overall experience, preferably with Networking background.
• 4+ years of experience in end-to-end architecting of advanced ML and AI solutions. Strong hands-on coding skills (preferably in Python) for processing large-scale data sets and developing machine learning models leveraging both structured and unstructured data.
• Hands-on experience on Juniper devices will be a plus.

ABOUT JUNIPER NETWORKS

Juniper Networks challenges the inherent complexity that comes with networking and security in the multicloud era. We do this with products, solutions and services that transform the way people connect, work and live. We simplify the process of transitioning to a secure and automated multicloud environment to enable secure, AI-driven networks that connect the world. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

WHERE WILL YOU DO YOUR BEST WORK?

Wherever you are in the world, whether it's downtown Sunnyvale or London, Westford or Bangalore, Juniper is a place that was founded on disruptive thinking - where colleague innovation is not only valued, but expected. We believe that the great task of delivering a new network for the next decade is delivered through the creativity and commitment of our people. The Juniper Way is the commitment to all our colleagues that the culture and company inspire their best work-their life's work. At Juniper we believe this is more than a job - it's an opportunity to help change the world...

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