Network Engineer

Title Network Engineer Working Model: Onsite Location: Richardson, TX Pay Range $75-$80/hr on w2 Description: As a member of the Systems and Maintenance Engineering (S&ME) Intelligent Edge Network Lab Governance Team, you'll be responsible for creating and executing support strategies for S&ME Lab resources. Primary responsibilities will include:

• Implement lab test bed setup based on requirements from IT, Planning, and Maintenance Engineering teams

• Insuring lab test bed setup is complete prior to test or development efforts

• Scheduling and managing availability of lab resources

• Support and triage for test bed issues, including vendor engagement/escalation

• Maintenance of lab resources to insure production-like availability

• Management of test bed inventories

• Hands-on equipment support (equipment installation, fiber maintenance, card add/pulls) What we're looking for
You will have knowledge and skills creating, managing, and troubleshooting optical transport layer 1-3 networks and willingness to collaborate across multiple teams in order to create and maintain a robust environment to support the dynamic demands of test and development efforts supporting Client's next-gen networks. You'll need to have:

• Experience with SONET/DWDM/ROADM/OTN/MPLS/Pseudowire and other transport methods

• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting/resolving network issues across Layer 1- 3 transport platforms

• Technical knowledge of IP core and transport networks and associated encapsulation and protocols such as BGP, OSPF, L2 Tunneling, pseudowire, IS-IS, BFD

• Knowledge of Telecommunications/Service Provider architecture and design

• Excellent collaboration skills and strong written and verbal communication skills

• Experience with best practices for equipment install, activation, turn-up, and network integration Even better if you have:

• Carrier Ethernet / MEF Certifications

• Experience working with Cisco or Ciena optical transport systems (eg. photonic switches, Cisco NCS platforms, Ciena 6500 platforms, etc)

• Experience with lab operational procedures/practices

• Scripting experience (Python, Perl, Javascript, Shell, etc)