Telecom Network Engineer

About This Role

This Telecom Network Engineer will design, manage, and operate complex enterprise telecommunication networks, ensuring their high availability and reliability for critical services within Vermont's electric power transmission system.

Responsibilities

• Develop knowledge of carrier class telecommunication engineering practices and standards in system designs and operation
• Design, manage, and operate complex enterprise networks (Enterprise Wi-Fi, Core network, DC fabric, edge network)
• Participate in the management of a Network Operating Center monitoring TDM, Carrier Ethernet, and proprietary networks using SNMP monitoring tools
• Actively monitor and conduct trend analysis for telecommunication networks to proactively identify performance issues
• Support infrastructure that is relied upon on a 7x24 basis
• Provide engineering and technical assistance and support to field personnel at radio sites, distribution utilities and substations throughout the State of Vermont
• Collaborate with and support all members of the Telecommunications Group
• Provide a high level of customer service to internal and external customers

Requirements

• 5+ years related technical experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or equivalent experience
• Proficiency planning, designing, implementing and managing highly available enterprise network technology
• Knowledge of network security, firewalls, related protocol analysis and SNMP
• Understanding of telecommunication transport technologies
• Understanding of analog and digital voice communications protocols
• Working knowledge of Ciena, Cisco, Juniper, Aruba and Checkpoint products
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Minimum of 5 years related technical experience

Nice to Have

• Experience with Ciena's products and technologies

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits