Role: Network Engineer

Location: Fremont, CA (onsite)

Key experience we need:

Points of Presence (POP)

Colocation Facilities (vendor coordination)

Racking

Protocols: TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS

Job description:

IP Deployment Engineer Duties:

• Deploy, configure, and support a large-scale production and corporate network and server infrastructure in data centers, Point of Presence (POP), edge, backbone, datacenter, and content delivery network (CDN) infrastructure.

• Provide onsite network support and expertise on local data center campus and remote support for POP sites while working with local vendor support staff

• Schedule and perform network maintenance, repair, and upgrade tasks as needed while limiting the impact on the production network

• Calculate and document equipment power requirements and work with Engineering, Facilities Operations, and/or collocation vendors to meet these requirements.

• Work closely with Network Engineering, Logistics, and equipment vendors as new equipment and technologies are integrated into the production network.

• Work with network provisioning engineers to turn up new circuits and engage and escalate with vendors to troubleshoot out-of-service or faulty circuits.

• Queue Management for tasks and incidents, participate in ongoing DC/POP deployment projects

• Use internal tools and scripts to configure, monitor, and repair servers and network equipment

• Develop internal documentation and conduct training as needed or appropriate

• Proactively contribute to documentation, automation and processes as they evolve

• Follow, improve, and implement data center and POP best practices

• Participate in on call activities and follow escalation process to support the infrastructure 24/7

Skills/Experience:

• CCNP/JNCIP preferable

• Experience in new PoP or Datacenter builds.

• Understanding of outside plant construction requirements with fiber and/or copper or coax experience preferred.

• Solid understanding of fiber-optic technology including cable types, connector types, optic types, patch panels, and optical transport technologies.

• Rack and stack; Installation of new racks and devices.

• Experience in device installation and testing, software/firmware upgrade, re-bootstrapping and decommission.

• Experience in network optimization (re-stripes, migrations, upgrades, swaps, capacity upgrades).

• Knowledge of DCN and experience in DCN installation, migrations, and upgrades.

• Experience in break fix support

• Knowledge of Juniper, Ciena, Infinera, Cisco, Arista and ZPE systems (Network Deployment)

• Strong attention to detail with excellent time management and organization skills.

• Excellent experience in maintaining documentation.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex situations and utilize troubleshooting skills, systems and tools, and creative problem-solving abilities under pressure.

• Programming and scripting capabilities are strongly desired.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Ability to work within a global team in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with limited supervision.