Network Engineer III - Packet

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

Position Description

The Network Engineer III plans and implements network augments and pop builds on the IP/Ethernet network. In this fast-paced and challenging environment you will work with various internal teams to efficiently complete implementation projects. This candidate must have Government of Canada Security Clearance.

Responsibilities:

• Identify areas of backbone congestion and facilitate new IP trunk installations

• Engineer capacity details, such as router port, cross-connect, metro/in-building dark fiber

• Update status and progress in salesforce on a daily and regular basis

• Verify and update project documentation

• Configure and ship equipment as required by the project

• Work with internal teams to activate and verify the functionality of deployed equipment

• Provide feedback for system reporting and automation

• Create detailed plans for network optimization opportunities

• Negotiate with vendors on cost savings initiatives

• Work with equipment vendors to negotiate quotes

• Provide training and assist colleagues on infrastructure builds and capacity augments

Qualifications:

• Must have Government of Canada Security Clearance

• Familiar with fundamentals of IP routing and switching, including BGP, DNS, IP address management

• Direct and recent experience troubleshooting router connectivity in a complex routed network environment

• Direct and recent experience using a router CLI to provision IP/Ethernet services

• Familiar with fundamentals of provisioning fiber-based circuits in a data center environment, including patches, cross-connects, risers, and backhaul

• Experience working in a team within a complex and fast-paced environment

• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to focus on the salient facts to resolve an issue

• Experience organizing multiple, time-sequenced tasks across several concurrent projects

• Must have experience with Cisco, and/or Junos and Nokia

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent education, training and/or experience.

• Required Network Engineering experience

• Minimum of five (5) years telecommunications and/or data networking experience.

• Preferred Certification – CCNA, CCNP, JNCIA, JNCIP

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time

Estimated base salary range: $70,000 - $100,000 CAD/annually.

Originally posted on Himalayas