About Juniper

Juniper Networks was founded on a simple but exceptionally powerful vision for the future of the network: “Connect everything. Empower everyone.” This ideal is the commitment of the company and the mission that drives every Juniper colleague every day. Our high-performance network infrastructure helps service providers, enterprises, and public sector organizations build value and accelerate business success within the new, changing global marketplace. Our products and technology run the world’s largest and most demanding global networks. Juniper Networks [NYSE: JNPR] is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with nearly 7,500+ dedicated employees and offices in nearly 50 countries. Our customers include the top 100 global service providers, 30,000 enterprises, including 99 of the Global Fortune 100, as well as hundreds of federal, state, and local government agencies and higher education organizations.

Why Juniper?

Our vision is for Juniper Networks to become a multi-generational community that empowers people to accomplish the impossible. This requires a perspective that is multi-generational, thinking beyond the markets and products of today and tomorrow to the values that enable a community to prosper for generations. We value trust, integrity, respect, humility, and excellence. We're looking for people who live the values of our culture and can bring our vision to life.

Who we are:

Juniper Networks brings simplicity to networking with products, solutions, and services that connect the world! Through engineering innovation, we remove the constraints and complexities of networking in the cloud era to solve the toughest challenges our customers and partners face daily. At Juniper Networks we believe that the network is a resource for sharing knowledge and human advancement that changes the world. We are committed to imagining groundbreaking ways to deliver automated, scalable, and secure networks to move at the speed of business!

The Sales Engineering team enables Juniper to sell and support sophisticated networking and security solutions.

If you have over-the-top technical capability and curiosity; if you can influence both technical and business partners by translating business goals and challenges into technical solutions while differentiating Juniper from competing solutions; if your interpersonal and high-impact presentation skills evoke passion and confidence; if you’re a born problem-solver that loves to get into the details and have a burning desire to answer the hard problems in a constantly evolving, results-oriented industry - Juniper Networks is the place for you!

Juniper Networks is at the heart of this transformation with its industry-leading technologies that are ever more software-defined, helping to answer the most challenging issues in connectivity. Digital transformation is everywhere, with technologies such as Multi-Cloud, Cybersecurity, Automation, IoT, AI, Machine Learning, and 5G driving the next waves of innovation.

Juniper Networks has an immediate opening for a team-oriented, highly effective and self-motivated individual to support the Global Service Provider Architecture team. Architects are part of the Juniper GTM Team and have a primary responsibility to partner with the CTO office, PLM, and engineering on driving technical sales activities for opportunities in forward-looking and emerging technologies as well as new network evolutions. Architects possess in-depth, hands-on expertise with Juniper's products, solutions as well as other opensource or 3rd party technologies which complement Juniper’s vision in SP space. Architects work closely with CTO office on path-finding missions and develop POCs and customer demonstrations on upcoming solutions. Architects are well known in the industry and participate in talks as well as standardization activities (IETF, GSMA, ORAN etc.).

The specific role is for a customer chief architect for a large Tier-1 service provider in the US. The successful candidate will be the technical lead for all Juniper solutions at the T1-SP across all the software and hardware portfolio. The role requires presenting to the executive level decision-makers on next generation technologies as well as a strong coordination with Juniper’s senior leadership.

Minimum Qualifications:

A successful candidate will meet all of these requirements:

• Ability to communicate, both oral and written, on complex technical and sales issues to a variety of audiences, including executive-level technical decision-makers
• Ability to make and communicate relevant connections between proposed technical solutions and customers' business requirements.
• Strong understanding and knowledge of how to build successful relationships between an equipment manufacturer and a channel partner or reseller

• Expert level and hands-on knowledge of designing large scale IP/MPLS based Access/Metro/Edge and Core SP networks
• 5G RAN and Core architectures including O-RAN
• Private LTE/5G solutions for enterprises
• Expert level and hands-on knowledge of SDN environments including Overlay protocols such as MP-BGP,EVPN and tunneling technologies such as VXLAN, MPLS (SR) or SRv6
• Virtualization technologies on x86 and scaling using technologies such DPDK, SR-IOV, SmartNICs etc.
• Containers and Container related technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and Container networking (Flannel, Calico, Canal, OVN, Weave etc.)
• Experience in configuration and troubleshooting of Openstack, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Multi-Cloud or equivalent cloud orchestration in private and public cloud
• Data Center networking with deep understanding of large underlay Leaf and Spine based clos networks.

• Juniper Contrail Cloud, Contrail Edge Cloud, Contrail Enterprise Multicloud, Contrail Networking, Contrail Security
• Network Provisioning & Automation (Apstra, Juniper Paragon, Anuta or equivalent competitive products)
• Opensource activities like Magma, Tungsten Fabric, ONAP etc.
• Network Monitoring on Junos, Netconf/Rest APIs, YANG
• Underlay leaf & Spine Juniper QFX switches, Cisco Nexus switches, or Arista switches
• Juniper ACX,MX,PTX Series routers or equivalent competitor products
• Public Cloud solutions : AWS, Azure, GCP
• Open Networking switch hardware (white box) and related software (Cumulus, BigSwitch, Pica8)
• Knowledge of merchant silicon technologies (Trident, Tomahawk, Jericho, etc.)

Minimum Salary: $213,312.00

Maximum Salary:$306,636.00

The pay range for this position is expected to be between $213,312.00 and $306,636.00/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.