Senior Network Design Engineering (Government)

Description Of Job Duties/Responsibilities

Overall Purpose: Provide expert consultation and develop network designs for wireless, wireline, and broadband infrastructure, using engineering principles and approved guidelines to ensure robust, scalable, and efficient network solutions.

This position requires office presence a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.

• Network Design and Architecture: Develop and manage detailed network designs and architecture, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and creating specifications for network migrations.
• Implementation and Configuration: Deploy network solutions, integrate new components, provide initial support, resolve system failures, and implement circuit provisioning standards.
• Performance Optimization and Troubleshooting: Monitor and optimize network performance, assess client networks, make improvement recommendations, and troubleshoot issues.
• Documentation and Compliance: Maintain detailed records, ensure compliance with standards, author process documentation, methods, procedures, and use tools to create engineering documents.
• Collaboration and Project Management: Coordinate with stakeholders and vendors, manage projects from conception to completion, prepare cost/benefit estimates, and oversee presentations, negotiations, and installations.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Typical tasks may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Network Design and Architecture
• Implementation and Configuration
• Performance Optimization and Troubleshooting
• Documentation and Compliance
• Collaboration and Project Management

Job Contribution

An experienced professional with advanced, interdisciplinary knowledge, resolving difficult and complex issues using broad professional concepts. Guides others, applying advanced principles and company practices. Leads moderate sized projects (or parts of larger projects) with strategic value. Operates autonomously with frequent senior leadership interaction.

TCP Career Step Differentiator

Leading significant design projects and ensuring compliance.

Environmental Requirements

This position may be responsible for contributing to AT&T compliance with environmental laws and regulations as applicable to its job function. This may include, but is not limited to, work related to fuel tanks, emergency and stand-by generators, boilers, hazardous waste, hazardous materials, batteries, manholes and vaults, water wells, linear and other construction projects, water discharge, or air emissions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field is preferred, or an Associates with 5 years of applicable experience and/or equivalent experience
• Hands-on configuration and real-world experience with enterprise class routers and switch product lines including Cisco and Juniper.
• Type 1 Crypto equipment implementation and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to implement and troubleshoot commercial network security protocols (IPSEC, MACSEC).
• Demonstrated expertise in supporting the WAN, MAN, CAN and LAN technologies.
• Ability to configure and troubleshoot routing and switching protocols.
• Understanding of enterprise management of converged networks, capacity planning, performance analysis and network tuning.
• Ability to provide Tier 2 through 4 support.
• Technical writing skills.
• Excellent organization skills to support work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Self-motivated, including ability to effectively perform tasks on schedule.
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification.

Desired Qualifications

• Cyber certifications.
• Knowledge of AT&T operating methods and procedures.
• Solarwinds experience.
• Familiarity with Federal Government networks, and DOD technical requirements and is a plus.