Resident Engineer – KSA

Greetings from Linnk Group,

Resident Engineer – KSA

Location: KSA – Mainly Remote | Quarterly Onsite Customer Meetings

Contract: 12 Months

Segment: Enterprise / Service Provider

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Resident Engineer with strong Juniper Networks and large-scale Service Provider networking expertise. The role will provide customer-facing technical support, troubleshooting, network design guidance, upgrades, and automation support for production and pre-production network environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day operational and post-sales support for Juniper network environments.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across large-scale IP/MPLS networks and manage JTAC cases through resolution.
• Support critical incidents, network upgrades, migrations, and maintenance activities.
• Provide guidance on network architecture, capacity planning, technology adoption, and best practices.
• Conduct technical workshops and train engineering and operations teams.
• Perform network health assessments, fault isolation, and root-cause analysis.
• Review and develop SOPs/MOPs and support release management, PBN, and SIRT activities.
• Perform lab testing, DVT, certification, and integration of new hardware/software releases.
• Develop Python/PyEZ automation for configuration validation, health checks, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency.
• Support traffic engineering and traffic steering using Paragon/JRD.
• Maintain strong communication with customer engineering, operations, and leadership teams.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in large-scale Service Provider networks.
• Strong expertise in JUNOS CLI and Juniper MX, QFX, EX, ACX, and PTX platforms.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, MPLS, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, LDP, RSVP, MPLS-TE, SR/SRv6, IPv4/IPv6.
• Experience with L3VPN, VPLS, MVPN, EVPN, QoS/CoS, 802.1Q, BNG, and broadband services.
• Hands-on experience with Python and Juniper PyEZ.
• Experience with network automation and integration with operational workflows.
• Strong customer-facing, communication, troubleshooting, and presentation skills.
• Certifications: JNCIP/JNCIE, CCNP/CCIE or equivalent expertise preferred.

Interested candidates can share their updated CV to Mohammed.Sabeer@linnk.com