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Overview
We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Network Engineer III to help establish Chesapeake Connects (CCX) as a municipal Internet Service Provider (ISP). This role is critical to our vision of delivering affordable high-speed broadband infrastructure that serves our community enhances public services and fuels economic development.
Responsibilities:
- Define and implement scalable network architecture and best practices for CCX.
- Design deploy and support fiber and wireless network elements to enable smart city solutions digital equity and resilient connectivity.
- Collaborate with vendor partners and internal teams to establish and optimize our new broadband infrastructure.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders and customers to plan and provision services.
- Support the full lifecycle of network operations from planning and provisioning to ongoing performance and incident response.
- Perform Level III/IV troubleshooting of complex network issues including customer escalations.
- Monitor network performance using appropriate tools and respond to alarms and alerts.
- Conduct software upgrades and ensure device configurations follow CCX security and performance standards.
- Document network topology configurations policies and standard operating procedures.
- Train operations and field personnel on troubleshooting monitoring and routine maintenance.
- Serve as the technical lead for projects coordinating day-to-day work with internal staff and third-party contractors.
- Participate in on-call rotation and support after-hours network maintenance and emergency response.
- Design implement and support core and access network elements within a municipal ISP environment.
- Maintain and optimize the transport network and all active network components.
- Install and configure routers switches firewalls wireless equipment and optical gear.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 4 years of progressive network engineering experience; at least 2 years supporting service provider environments preferred.
- Valid driver s license required.
- Ability to respond to emergencies on-call rotations and after-hours maintenance as needed.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proven experience working in or designing ISP or carrier-grade networks.
- Familiarity with municipal broadband networks dark fiber leasing and last-mile connectivity.
- Hands-on experience with fiber optics BGP/OSPF routing DHCP VLANs firewalls and IP address management.
- Experience with network monitoring and configuration tools (e.g. SolarWinds NetBox Ansible etc.).
- Strong understanding of wireless backhaul CBRS LTE and LoRaWAN deployments.
Sr. Network Engineer