What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Engineer Site Reliability, IP position at Optimum?
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If you are resourceful, collaborative, team-oriented and passionate about delivering consistent excellence, Optimum is the Company for you!
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Job Summary
As a Level 3 IP Engineer, you will play a vital role in the design, implementation, and support of scalable IP transport networks. This position requires a deep understanding of routing protocols, network performance, and service availability across enterprise and carrier-grade environments. You will be responsible for resolving complex issues, leading optimization efforts, and driving automation and documentation practices to ensure reliable and secure operations.
This role is ideal for experienced engineers ready to take ownership of critical infrastructure and collaborate with architecture, operations, and NOC teams to ensure end-to-end network performance and reliability.
Responsibilities
Education and Experience
If you have the drive to succeed and are ready to embark on a thrilling career, seize this opportunity today, and join our winning team, so together, we'll shape the future of connectivity.
All job descriptions and required skills, qualifications and responsibilities for a particular position are subject to modification by the Company from time to time, in the Company’s discretion based on business necessity.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. The Company provides reasonable accommodations upon request in accordance with applicable requirements.
Optimum collects personal information about its applicants for employment that may include personal identifiers, professional or employment related information, photos, education information and/or protected classifications under federal and state law. This information is collected for employment purposes, including identification, work authorization, FCRA-compliant background screening, human resource administration and compliance with federal, state, and local law.
Applicants for employment with the Company will never be asked to provide money (even if reimbursable) as part of the job application or hiring process. Please review our Fraud FAQ for further details.
This position is identified as being performed in/or reporting to company operations in New York State. Salary ranges are supplied in compliance with New York State law. Pay is competitive and based on a number of job-related factors, including skills and experience. The starting pay rate/range at time of hire for this position in the posted location is $100,246.00 - $164,689.00 / year. The rate/range provided herein is the anticipated pay at the time of hire, and does not reflect future job opportunity.
We are Optimum, a leader in the fast-paced world of connectivity, and we're on the hunt for enthusiastic professionals to join our team! We understand that connectivity isn't just a luxury anymore – it's a necessity that empowers lives, fuels businesses, and drives innovation. A career at Optimum means you'll be enabling progress and enhancing lives by providing reliable, high-speed connectivity solutions that keep the world connected. We owe our success to our amazing product, commitment to our people and the connections we make in every community.
If you are resourceful, collaborative, team-oriented and passionate about delivering consistent excellence, Optimum is the Company for you!
We are Optimum!
Job Summary
As a Level 3 IP Engineer, you will play a vital role in the design, implementation, and support of scalable IP transport networks. This position requires a deep understanding of routing protocols, network performance, and service availability across enterprise and carrier-grade environments. You will be responsible for resolving complex issues, leading optimization efforts, and driving automation and documentation practices to ensure reliable and secure operations.
This role is ideal for experienced engineers ready to take ownership of critical infrastructure and collaborate with architecture, operations, and NOC teams to ensure end-to-end network performance and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Design and validate Layer 3 network topologies, addressing schemes, and route policies.
- Lead troubleshooting of routing issues involving BGP, OSPF, MPLS, and multicast.
- Monitor network health using telemetry, SNMP, and flow-based tools; respond to anomalies.
- Implement change requests, maintenance windows, and upgrades with minimal service impact.
- Automate recurring network tasks (e.g., provisioning, config backups, audits) using Python, Ansible, or other tools.
- Collaborate with IP architects and security teams to align on policies, segmentation, and access control.
- Participate in capacity planning, traffic analysis, and latency optimization efforts.
- Maintain technical documentation, network diagrams, and SOPs for internal use.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal knowledge sharing.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to support network integration for new services or infrastructure rollouts.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
- 6 years of experience in IP networking and infrastructure support, with at least 4 years in reliability-focused roles.
- Expert-level knowledge of routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS) and transport protocols (TCP, UDP, ICMP).
- Proficient in infrastructure automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Python scripting).
- Experience managing observability platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, SNMP traps).
- Strong familiarity with network design principles, IP addressing schemes, NAT, ACLs, and traffic engineering.
- Experience with hybrid infrastructure (on-prem cloud), microservice architectures, and SDN.
- Certifications such as Cisco CCNP/CCIE, Juniper JNCIP/JNCIE, or equivalent.
- Strong documentation and cross-team leadership skills; able to translate technical needs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Familiarity with CI/CD workflows, GitOps, or containerized networking (CNI, service mesh).
If you have the drive to succeed and are ready to embark on a thrilling career, seize this opportunity today, and join our winning team, so together, we'll shape the future of connectivity.
All job descriptions and required skills, qualifications and responsibilities for a particular position are subject to modification by the Company from time to time, in the Company’s discretion based on business necessity.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. The Company provides reasonable accommodations upon request in accordance with applicable requirements.
Optimum collects personal information about its applicants for employment that may include personal identifiers, professional or employment related information, photos, education information and/or protected classifications under federal and state law. This information is collected for employment purposes, including identification, work authorization, FCRA-compliant background screening, human resource administration and compliance with federal, state, and local law.
Applicants for employment with the Company will never be asked to provide money (even if reimbursable) as part of the job application or hiring process. Please review our Fraud FAQ for further details.
This position is identified as being performed in/or reporting to company operations in New York State. Salary ranges are supplied in compliance with New York State law. Pay is competitive and based on a number of job-related factors, including skills and experience. The starting pay rate/range at time of hire for this position in the posted location is $100,246.00 - $164,689.00 / year. The rate/range provided herein is the anticipated pay at the time of hire, and does not reflect future job opportunity.
Salary : $100,246 - $164,689