Sr Engr Spec-Ntwk Operations

About the role

Join Verizon as we continue to expand our industry-leading network to improve the ways people, businesses, and things connect. As a Senior Engineer, you will provide technical expertise on a critical role involving network transformation, network outages, service issues, network optimization, and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to keep things running smoothly and change the way that our customers live, work, and play.
• Perform troubleshooting, configuration changes, drive issues to resolution, and related functions.
• Maintain network systems and applications to ensure overall system availability and performance.
• Comply with company- and industry-wide standard directives to maintain network performance and enhance efficiency.
• Optimize, troubleshoot, and maintain network equipment, finding ways to make it even better.
• Partner with all key stakeholders to ensure new features and/or fixes are swiftly rolled out with no negative impact to customers or system performance.
• Leverage automation to eliminate manual processes and provide near real-time visibility into system health and performance.

Requirements

• Associate’s degree or two or more years of work experience.
• Three or more years of relevant experience required.
• Willingness to work rotating shifts including weekends and holidays.
• Willingness to travel up to approximately 75% of the time.
• Valid driver's license. Additional qualifications may include:
• A technical degree in Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Engineering, Business or a related discipline.
• Five or more years of experience in telecommunications.
• Experience with automation tools.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve IP network troubles in the physical, data link, and network layers.
• Expert-level knowledge of services, network devices, knowledge base solutions, and system monitoring tools.

Qualifications

• Even better if you have:
• Technical degree in Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Engineering, Business or a related discipline.
• Five or more years of experience in telecommunications.
• Experience with automation tools.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve IP network troubles in the physical, data link, and network layers.
• Expert-level knowledge of services, network devices, knowledge base solutions, and system monitoring tools.

Skills

• Tech-savvy and well-versed in all things telecommunications.
• Independent working style.
• Thorough and vigilant with attention to detail.
• Energized by solving challenging problems.

Benefits

• Health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance.
• Matched 401(k) savings plan.
• Up to 8 company-paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Tuition assistance.
• Other incentives.

Pay

$96,000.00 - $157,000.00 annually based on a full-time schedule.

Schedule

Scheduled Weekly Hours 40