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Network Design Engineer

Kingston, NY

Posted: 09/11/2023 Job Category: Infrastructure Job Number: 6792

Job Description

OpenArc - Empowering Your Career. As a leading IT staffing firm, we are dedicated to connecting talented professionals with your ideal opportunities. We are currently seeking a qualified Network Design Engineer to join our client’s organization and contribute to their ongoing success. 

The Network Design Engineer will be an integral team member working to design and develop IP/SR-MPLS backbone, XGS-PON access layer, internet peering, and transport infrastructure expansions and upgrades related to our multi-state fiber optic network.

Responsibilities:

• Create implementation designs and required documentation, including Methods of Procedures (MOPs), diagrams, drawings
• Develop designs that align with Archtop’s architectures for PON last-mile, IP/SR-MPLS backbone, and transport technologies.
• Provide turnup and test information for new network builds and augmentations.
• Maintain detailed documentation of network elements and device deployments.
• Support process development, documentation and support as needed to other teams for implementation, troubleshooting, and repair of network connections and customer deployments.
• Support equipment/materials vendor selection 
• Foster a resilient network design approach that ensures redundancy and rapid failover.
• Develop customer service configurations that can be deployed via network automation and low-touch provisioning. 
• Ensure proper traffic management and optimization - traffic shaping, classification, policing, queuing, scheduling, etc.
• Create and maintain Best Practice documentation to capture our design, and deployment methodologies, network device configuration templates, and customer service configuration.
• Assimilate, analyze, and correlate large amounts of forensic data from various network devices, operating systems, applications, security devices, logs, and alerts by leveraging analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Be a continuous Subject Matter Expert for technical design and be an escalation point for Network Operations and Field Operations teams.
 

Requirements:

• Progressive experience in network engineering or network architecture roles in a large network environment. 
• Professional level networking certifications (CRS-P, CCNP, JNCIP) 
• Working knowledge of all aspects of OSI layers 1-4.
• Demonstrated deployment of eBGP, iBGP, OSPF, MPLS, RPKI; 
• Knowledge of FTTx design and PON access technology GPON, XGSPON, OLT, and ONU.
• Detailed knowledge of End to End QOS, Layer 2 QOS, and Layer 3 QOS.
• Knowledge of network tools and protocols including SNMP, TACACs+, radius, syslog, DHCP, VLANs, Spanning Tree, EVPN, VPLS, IPsec, Pseudowire, VRFs, MC-LAG, EV-LAG, DNS, NAT, CGN, TCP/IP, FQDN, SIP, MGCP, RTP,
• Advanced knowledge of network operating systems, such as SAOS, IOS-XR, or JUNOS.
• Working knowledge of optical transport solutions, including coherent optics, passive muxes, amplification, RON, ROADM, and DWDM. Must stay current on fast changing optical transport technologies and methodologies.
• Firewall and VPN experience preferred.
 

At OpenArc, we prioritize your career success and strive to build exceptional technical teams for our clients. By understanding your experience and aspirations, we ensure to present you with rewarding and fulfilling opportunities. 

 

As an employee of OpenArc and our clients, you will be eligible to participate in a comprehensive benefits package.


OpenArc is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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