Network Engineer Job in Piscataway, New Jersey US
Network Engineer
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With our endless opportunities, there's no better time to launch a promising career. What We Offer: Our team members drive our mission: to provide customers with the best technology and service. For your hard work and commitment, we offer a competitive salary and rewards package to facilitate your professional goals and improve your life. We call it Total Rewards. And it includes: Medical, dental and vision from day one Award-winning training Generous tuition assistance program 401(k) with a company matching Employee discounts on services and devices Health and wellness programs Careers For Everything You Are Verizon is an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V Network Engineer Job Reference Number HJOBP000000003609097-3 State NJ City Piscataway Business Unit Telecommunications Job Description The position is to provide post-sales, hands-on Network Engineering that includes the design, deployment and ongoing support for large Enterprise Managed Services Customers WAN, LAN, WLAN, IP Voice, and Security solutions. As Lead Network Engineer you will have a detailed understanding of the Customers internetworking environment, and act as the technical advisor for current and future technology deployments. Network Design Optimization and Capacity Planning -Review performance of the customer network, plan and manage scalability, logical addressing, redundancy and logical and physical capacity for the customer data network. -Review performance reports and make design/configuration recommendations. -Provide engineering support for proof of concept prototyping and testing. Strategic Planning and Design -Perform functions as the customer's supplemental network architect during the contract. -Provide technology assessments including benefit evaluation of new vendor releases to ensure current network compatibility. -Plan and recommend end-of-life remediation for network equipment. -Discuss and review network requirements to ensure proper alignment with the customer's business requirements. -Review network design topology architecture. -Evaluate/recommend technology upgrades. -Conduct and annual technology assessment and overview presentation with customer. 4th Level Support to Managed Network Solutions Operations -Work with Managed Network Solutions Operations Center engineering on issues related to operating system vulnerability checks, including operating system upgrades to eliminate known vulnerabilities. -Provide engineering/technical support for problem resolution of design-related issues identified by Managed Network Solutions Operations engineers and/or CPE vendor's technical support. Maintenance of Customer Network Design Documentation -The Network Design Documentation feature allows the Network Engineer to update the network as-built documentation and Customer Design Document (CDD) consistent with major changes to the network. Change Management Planning and Execution (Optional Change Management) -The Network Engineer will work with the customer to define requirements, design, document, and work with Operations to implement changes. Network Engineer will support engineering/design changes required to correct a customer network fault or problem. -Must possess a broad and thorough technical understanding and designing, configuring, implementing testing, troubleshooting and supporting multi-site critical network environments that consist of Routers, Switches (Catalyst Nexus), Wireless LAN, WAN Accelerator, VoIP, Firewall Network Security. -Hands on working experience with various routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP IGRP, RIPv1 RIPv2. -Hands on working experience with QoS configurations and designs. -Have very strong customer interfacing background, excellent oral and written communication skills, strong attention to detail, and good organizational skills. A quick thinker with the ability to work on multiple projects/activities concurrently, and research technical issues and develop solutions. -Possess problem solving skills including conceptual and analytical thinking and capable of working on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors. -Candidates should possess current vendor certification in CCNA, CCNP, CCDA, CCDP or CCIE (RS). -Associate's Degree or higher (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science) and minimum 7 years of experience in a hands-on Network Engineering role. CCNA, CCNP or CCIE (RS) certification is preferred. Hands-on experience with Cisco Voice and Wireless LAN is preferred. Juniper certified (JNCIA/JNCIS/JNCIP/JNCIE) highly desirable but not essential. Requirements