Network Service Engineer

Your role

The Network Service engineer is responsible for monitoring and maintaining Digital Realtys Interconnectivity Network infrastructure to ensure minimum network downtime and customer service impacts. Troubleshoot all network incidents and any customer reported services issue within agreed upon SLA. If needed the engineer is responsible for coordinating with internal and external providers to troubleshoot and fix any network/customer service issues.

What youll do

• Real-Time Monitoring: Proactively tracking network health traffic and performance metrics to prevent failures.
• Trouble Ticket Support: Create and manage trouble tickets with our equipment vendors and our fiber providers and support customer facing trouble tickets (Cloud Connect Service Exchange DRIX IP Bandwidth Metro Connect (Dark Fiber) Metro Connect (Ethernet) Metro Connect (Managed Wave) Ports Links Connections Virtual Router).
• Incident Management & Response:Detecting analyzing and resolving network outages outages or performance degradation.
• Maintenance & Updates: Support the installation configuring and updating hardware and firmware including patch management.
• Reporting: Providing detailed analysis regarding network performance availability and recommending infrastructure design and routing improvements.
• Incident Management Incident Diagnosis and Incident Resolution within SLAs OLAs and KPIs ensuring that all incidents are investigated in a timely manner.
• Provide regular updates to ticketing systems while progressing incidents through to resolution.
• Liaising and escalating with external suppliers and other Digital Realty departments to ensure minimum disruption and downtime on the network.
• Staying up to date with new network technology supported by the NOC.

What youll need

• A degree in telecommunications or equivalent relevant industry experience.
• Experience working with Juniper Ciena and Cisco network equipment are a plus.
• Professional certifications such as CCNA JNCIA or Optical Associate/Foundation are a plus.
• Proven experience working within a Network Management or Operations Center environment in the Managed Services (Data or Voice) Telecoms ISP or Cloud Service Provider sectors.
• Experience working within a Data Center (co-location) environment is advantageous.
• Hands-on experience with network monitoring tools and trouble-ticketing systems.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking fundamentals.
• Proficient in LAN and WAN troubleshooting including physical layer cabling issues in co-location environments.
• Working knowledge of IP/MPLS networks (experience with Juniper MX Series is desirable).
• Working experience of Optical Ethernet and Transport Network. (Ciena 6500 and Waveserver AI desirable)
• Working experience with Optical Ethernet and Transport Networks (experience with Ciena 6500 and Waveserver AI is desirable).
• Solid understanding of routing principles.
• Experience working with VMware and Linux-based systems.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute AWS Direct Connect Google Cloud Interconnect or other CSP connectivity services is an advantage.
• Scripting knowledge in Python or experience with Ansible automation tools is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong attention to detail.