Senior Network Engineer
Senior Network Engineer
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Job Description
DQE Communications headquartered in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania is a fiberoptic Internet and data network access provider for businesses and carriers in Pennsylvania West Virginia Maryland and Ohio. Established in 1997 as a division of the Duquesne Light Company DQE started as a dark fiber infrastructure provider in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area and since then has grown both its fiber footprint and product offerings to become one of the leading regional providers of secure reliable data network services. With its recent sale to GI Partners a leading investor in the communications infrastructure sector DQE has a renewed focus on growth both in terms of increasing penetration within its current footprint and growing its network reach.
Job Summary:
The Senior Network Engineer at DQE will act as the top level escalation point for network events. The Senior Network Engineer is tasked with solving the most complex network issues often recreating events in a lab environment to better understand mitigate and resolve service impacts. The Senior Network Engineer assists in the design cost analysis roadmap implementation and management of the DQE Metro Ethernet DWDM management networks and supporting systems. This position will work closely with product management to create and enhance DQEs service offerings. Oncall responsibilities for major network events may be required. Must be local to the Pittsburgh area. Hybrid work environment.
Key Job Responsibilities:
- Monitor analyze daytoday operational issues and anomalies affecting endcustomer network performance.
- Provide Tier3/Tier 2 customer technical support calls including occasional rotation covering 7x24 customer outages and NOC reported alarms.
- Administer ISP related functions such as using Juniper and Nokia routers DNS web servers email servers etc.
- Assist in design of customer IP/network solutions; specify upgrade and configure switches routers and firewalls.
- Provide project management for basic networking projects including equipment specification and schedule management.
- Create and maintain documentation and training for Engineering and Service Delivery teams.
- Develop solutions that support unique customer requirements.
- Collaborate with Sales Engineering to improve project workflow processes and meet with key stakeholders to discuss issues related to network design and implementation.
- Participate in new product development.
- Complete proof of concept and documentation for new implementations.
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Ability to explain highly complex difficult and/or sensitive information.
- Works well in team environment with a proven track record of building consensus with multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience with complex network troubleshooting and problem resolution.
- Advanced experience with programming languages such as Python.
- Network automation development is highly desired.
- Bachelors Degree in Science or Engineering.
- 510 years of experience in networking telecommunications or related industry required.
- Understanding of optical fiber characteristics.
- Preferred at least 5 years experience with MPLS BGP iBGP OSPF QoS and Pseudowire.
- Vendor specific networking certifications required.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
