What are the responsibilities and job description for the IP Engineer position at Summit Broadband?
General Description Of Position
Designs, maintains, grows and provides emergency restoration of Summit Broadband core network infrastructure.
Duties & Responsibilities
Designs, maintains, grows and provides emergency restoration of Summit Broadband core network infrastructure.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Participate in Summit core network architecture development, including network evolution and vision, market expansions, new technologies roll out, MPLS, IPv6, product offering, etc.
- Design, engineer and deploy BGP and OSPF Area-0 changes and upgrades.
- Contribute to network security tasks relevant to BGP and OSPF. Interact and represent with Summit peering and transit partners/vendors.
- Demonstrates the ability to manage complicated technical projects including time-lines, costs, resources and vendor relationships.
- Provides advanced technical and operational escalation support (on-call) to the Operations staff on network elements, internal processes, training requirements, vendor support, and network design and planning.
- Provide strong technical leadership to junior engineers.
- Provides senior-level project management and capital management duties.
- Manages vendor relations and product evaluations, provides costs analysis and feasibility studies for various projects and proposed network designs.
- Identifies operational and design issues through data analysis and recommends solutions to make networks more efficient.
- Monitors network performance and performs capacity planning to ensure optimal performance of network resources.
- Works with our internal technical, sales and support groups to provide a reliable and secure network infrastructure used to deliver telecommunications services including voice, video and high speed data.
- Supports carrier network equipment such as routers, switches, and cable modems, Unix systems, firewalls and other data/IP networking-related equipment.
- Applies strong knowledge of data communications principles, architectures and protocols including TCP/IP, routing, switching, WAN and Ethernet technologies to design and implement efficient network configurations.
- Researches emerging technologies as a member of a task force or independently and makes appropriate recommendations to improve network performance, security and reliability.
- Performs other related duties as assigned to ensure effective operation of department.
- Cisco or Juniper JCIE Routing Certification
- 5 years’ experience in a similar role
- 5 - 10 years of relevant IP networking experience working for service providers or Telecom vendor
- Strong working knowledge and experience in layer 3 routing protocols including daily operation in large networks : RIPv2, OSPF or IS-IS, and BGP
- Advanced Knowledge of TCP/IP, Ethernet technologies, IP routing and routing protocols, multicast, Unix/Linux systems, network security technologies and carrier network architectures
- Network security experience, including firewall and IDS/IPS appliances/functions
- Specific knowledge of Juniper and Cisco routers, especially the Juniper MX, EX, and SRX platforms is preferred.
- Broad knowledge of Juniper and Cisco configurations would be a plus.
- Juniper and Cisco certifications or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of telecom standards such as MEF, DOCSIS, XGS and GPON
- Proven ability to manage multiple tasks/projects as well as lead small, directed projects
- Excellent communication skills
- Understanding of IPTV and video compression
- Juniper IP Routing certified or equivalent experience
- Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
- At least 18 years of age.
- Must be authorized to work in the US.
- Must be able to pass a criminal background check and drug test.
