Primary responsibilities will include:

• Design and engineering of effective and scalable network systems and solutions


• Participate in evaluation, testing, selection, and deployment of foundational network elements for a nationwide greenfield network buildout


• Ensure that solutions adhere to defined standards and best practices and/or assist in the development of these standards and best practices.


• Effectively communicate engineering solutions through detailed high- and low-level diagrams


• Routinely research, analyze, test, retest, and troubleshoot complex problems


• Able to work in a fast-paced environment, under pressure, with strict deadlines, both as an individual contributor and team player


• Participate in knowledge transfer, documentation and information sharing while staying abreast of new technology/technical areas

A successful candidate will be able to:

• Provide advanced technical leadership for complex project work, including functional subsystem upgrades for mission-critical network devices and services as well as strategic upgrades to the network


• Design, plan, and implement complex LAN/WAN/RAN configurations at a nationwide scale


• Supply advanced technical direction and leadership to the organization through the planning and implementation processes


• Establish requirements, provide analysis for network and services specifications, network design, network partitioning, and network architecture definition


• Provide advanced expertise in the development of network test, validation, and integration plans on projects, and assurance of network integrity


• Work independently with Vendors to understand, test, and drive new innovative features

Candidate should have extensive knowledge in the following areas:

Priority from top to bottom

• Service Provider IP routing
  
  
  
  • MPLS and/or Segment Routing (SR-MPLS, SRv6)
  
  
  • eBGP, iBGP, IS-IS, VRFs, and QoS
  
  
  • High availability, failover, and redundant configurations
  
  
  
  


• Network Deployment and Operations Automation - Ansible, Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)


• IPv6 - SLAAC and DHCPv6


• Network Timing and Synchronization - GNSS, GPS, PTP


• Software-Defined Networking (SDN) - Design and Traffic Engineering


• Network configuration automation (Scripting with Perl/Python/Bash)


• Server virtualization - VMWare, Openstack


• Solid understanding of the OSI model, routing and switching protocols, network security, IPv4 and IPv6 networking, subnetting, and operational experience

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering preferred, or ten or more years of professional experience in a large enterprise or carrier space


• Professional networking certifications a plus- CCNA/CCNP/CCIE or equivalent


• Public cloud certifications a plus - Advanced Networking, Cloud Network Engineer, or equivalent