Telecom Transport Specialist/Engineer
Virtual Tech Gurus
Description
Job Description:
- Experience in design, implementation and testing of carrier based technologies in support of data center network infrastructure:
- Carrier inside and outside plant fiber backbone infrastructure
- Telco conduit and riser infrastructure
- Carrier manhole right of way
- Inside riser infrastructure
- Inside plant fiber requirements
- Fiber designs to ensure no single points of failure exists within the fiber routes, central offices (local & long distance) and optical wavelength equipment
- Technical experience for installation, pretest and migration of production services
- DWDM
- MPLS
- Ethernet Private Line
- TNS
- Hybrid Cloud technologies and providers
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- Oracle
- IBM
- Hands on knowledge of data center structured cabling
- Optical
- Single Mode Fiber
- Multimode Fiber
- Electrical
- Cat6 (copper)
- Optical
- Basic troubleshooting skills and expertise to identify issues within telco infrastructure
- Service provider checks
- Carrier loopback checks
- IP configuration checks
- Ping and trace route (tracert) testing
- Cisco command line tools
- Document
- Review, identify and maintain Carrier Infrastructure documentation
- Carrier As-Builts
- KMZ files
- Inventories
- Experience with colocation data center infrastructure
- Equinix
- Colocation cross connect
- Co-Lo Operations support
- Extranet providers
- Radianz
- Transaction Network Services (TNS)
- IPC
- Generate test plans or scripts detailing network related configurations.
- Create turnover documentation and update all Citi’s inventory systems with the new install information
- Perform system level documentation on Citi platforms and assist in project tracking and documentation.
- Deinstallation and clean up all legacy telco devices and insure all systems in the environment have been removed
- Must be willing to work in Citi Green zone times which are weeknights and weekend 12:00am to 6:00am EST to support network changes
Technical Skills:
- Knowledge of and hands on experience with Optical DWDM Wavelength (10Gb, 100Gb and 400Gb) and legacy SONET -- OC3, OC12, OC48, OC192 technologies..
- Knowledge of and hands on experience with legacy Private Line (DS1, DS3, GigE, MPLS, Ethernet Private Line (EPL) & Wireless 4G and 5G and Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) WAN Transport technologies.
- Knowledge and familiarity of Cisco Routing & Switching Technologies.,
- knowledge of routing protocols i.e. BGP, OSPF, EIGRP and RIP
- Hardware: Cisco NCS5500, Nexus 9300, ISR 4000, ASR 1000
- Other: FastEthernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Ten GigabitEthernet and 100 GigabitEthernet
Non-Technical Skills:
- Must possess strong written and verbal communications
- Excellent assertive communication skills
- Must possess good customer relations skills
- Must possess good vendor facing skills
- Must possess ability to work independently or as part of a team and be well organized
- Must have the capability to manage multiple projects and multi-task effectively
- Must possess strong project management skills.
- PC Skills (Microsoft office suite of products – Word, Excel, Power Point and Visio)
- Ideally 10+ years’ experience in a similar role and/or environment
- Minimum 5+ years’ experience with Data Center Migrations and/or managing network migrations
JOBID: 11916