American Broadband
Position Purpose/Summary
The Network Engineer will function within the Fastwyre organization to perform work requiring a high level of technical knowledge across broadband data, voice and video services for an Internet Service Provider (ISP). Requires the ability to quickly adapt and obtain a high level of knowledge of other areas within the engineering field for all critical infrastructure platforms. When acting as project leader, this position takes the lead in managing large-scale, complex, and highly analytical tasks. The Network Engineer serves as lead technical architect and integrator for large, complex network infrastructures and mentor's junior personnel in the engineering field.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
- Provides long-range strategic planning for new and innovative networking technologies, including research and development of alternative architectures, new infrastructure framework, and engineering strategy; monitors the impact of technological developments and supplier roadmaps.
- Leads advanced technical project teams and contractors, with engineering emphasis on routing/switching, system buildouts, and systems security and reliability; plans, assigns, directs, and coordinates work efforts; develops project plans, timetables, and staff requirements.
- Enhances legacy infrastructure with upgrade designs, expansion projects and configuration improvements, presents proposals to Director level and above for costing approval and IRR/breakeven targets.
- Oversees the performance of day-to-day networking tasks to ensure network reliability, availability, performance and serviceability with minimal service interruptions.
- Provides complex technical support, analyzes, and solves complex reported network problems.
- Develops criteria and oversees design and development of prototypical lab environments for the purpose of providing testing and training platforms of new networking technologies by engineering and operations staff.
- Develops and produces engineering documentation for installation, optimization and evolving network topology.
- Acts as highest level of technical support internally for troubleshooting of communications hardware or software.
- Develop and implement standard operating procedures and author system configuration documents for on-going reference.
- Represents the engineering department at group, task force and steering committee meetings and pilot testing, as assigned.
- Performing other duties and responsibilities as assigned, occasional travel to Fastwyre locations as required.
Knowledge, Abilities, & Skills for Success
- Expert level knowledge of transport protocols, routing protocols, and security/auth to encryption protocols at all layers of the OSI model with emphasis on TCP/IP are essential.
- Must have knowledge networking features and protocols such as spanning tree, ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, EtherChannel, 802.1Q trunking, MLS, HSRP, GLBP, VSS/VSL, QoS, TCP/IP, UDP, IPSEC, HTTP, HTTPS, Multicast, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, IPsec, RADIUS/TACACS+, SNMP, current WAN/MAN telecommunications technologies and Web caching services (proxy server) and 802.1x.
- Expert level of IP Subnetting, DNS, encryption technologies and standards, VPNs, VLANs, VoIP and other network routing methods.
- Extensive experience with routers, switches, network security, Internet/Intranet environments with an Internet Service Provider (ISP).
- Understanding of SDN/SDDC (Software Defined Network or Datacenter - full stack - (compute, storage, network) including experience with AWS, Azure, Openstack, Cloudstack, or related virtualization technologies. Experience with Calix, Cisco, Ciena are required.
- Knowledge of technology industry trends and emerging technologies.
- Knowledge of project life cycle methodologies.
- Ability to manage studies, special projects, and assignments with long-range impacts.
- Hands-on experience with how to support repeatable, reliable, and scalable network architectures with fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery.
- Expertise in analyzing network traffic capacity and performance characteristics.
Qualifications
At a minimum, the Network Engineer must have:
- Requires a bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications, or a related field, or five to seven years of direct network experience with a high emphasis on complex network design and support.
- Current engineering certification of CCNP Service Provider or JNCIA Service Provider preferred. Lack of valid/current certification would be evaluated on a case-by-case basis for exceptional candidates with an extensive network engineering background.
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