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Pittsburgh, PA - USA

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Not Disclosed

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Job Title:Senior ISP Network Engineer

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 ISP Network Engineer at DQE will act as a top level escalation point during network events and customer escalation. The Senior ISP 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 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 DWDM / Transport / IP network solutions; specify upgrade and configure optical equipment switches routers and firewalls.
  • Provide project management for advanced networking projects including equipment specification testing proof of concept and schedule management.
  • Create and maintain documentation and training for Engineering and Service Delivery teams.
  • Develop enterprise grade ISP Transport and Managed Service 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.

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.
Education and Experience:
  • Bachelors Degree in Science or Engineering.
  • 10 years of experience in networking telecommunications or related industry required.
  • Understanding of optical fiber characteristics.
  • Preferred at least 10 years experience with MPLS BGP iBGP OSPF QoS Pseudowire and Metro Ethernet.
  • Vendor specific networking certifications required.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type

Full-Time

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