What I actually do

Lane 1

Juniper & network security

Production Juniper work — policy, VPN, routing — plus lab validation and config testing before you touch production.

SRX security policy — build-out, cleanup, and segmentation

IPsec / VPN tunnel bring-up, changes, and remediation

Junos routing design and rollback-safe implementation

Lab proof-of-concept, config testing, and cutover rehearsal

Junos automation & validation (PyEZ, jsnapy, playbooks)

Junos tooling

PyEZ jsnapy Ansible Junos scripting & playbooks

Lane 2

Automation & platform

Pipelines, observability, logging, and the Linux glue around your network.

Planning a more automated, dev-oriented way of running the network

Automation pipeline design and implementation

Config validation, templates, and operational playbooks

Application integration — logging, monitoring, RADIUS, and access systems

Access integration and Linux glue around your stack

How to safely use AI and other modern tools, not slop

Automation & orchestration

Ansible Nornir Salt Chef Puppet Python

Integration & observability

Application & network integration Logging & log aggregation Monitoring & alerting RADIUS / TACACS+ Access & identity (Duo, etc.) Linux ops (systemd, git, ssh, containers)

Tool choice follows what you already run — the goal is something your team can maintain.

How to safely use AI and other modern tools, not slop in day-to-day network work — Human review on config and change work — not hype, not blind trust in the output.