Telecommunications Engineer

Location: Colorado Springs, CO

Industry: Dept. of Defense

Salary: $95k-$100k + 10% yearly bonus

Employment Type: Direct Hire

Clearance: Active Top Secret required

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5+ years experience with SONET based, long-haul and metro transport networks, next-generation DWDM wavelength systems, SDH networks with SNCP rings, DCCS cross-connect systems, and/or Ethernet, VPLS, IP, MPLS
• 7+ years of applicable work experience
• Cisco CCIP, CCDP, CCNP certifications, Juniper or ALU data networking equivalent preferred
• Flexibility with regard to work levels and shift accommodation is imperative.
• Ability to relate technical issues to management and Government personnel, interfacing in a professional manner with management and customers.
• Strong working knowledge and experience on DWDM Layer 1, Metro Ethernet, and IP communications (IPv4, IPv6, routing protocols)
• Technical knowledge and experience in contemporary technologies (e.g. MPLS, TDM, Ethernet, eLAN-eLine, TCP/IP, BGP, QoS, IP, etc)
• Previous experience with broadband and/or narrowband circuit maintenance, testing and restoration, provisioning databases and circuit activations
• Previous experience with routers, IP protocols, configurations, interfaces are strongly preferred
• Prior experience with Transport platforms (i.e. Nortel, Cisco, Ciena, Lucent, and Tellabs) and Data platforms (Cisco, Juniper, Adtran)
• Must have an active Top Secret Clearance

Duties:

• Perform circuit and equipment/network restoration, recognize potential jeopardy conditions.
• Management of circuits (T1 - 100Gb, Ethernet & IP), perform testing and activation of new network circuits as well as long-haul, metro and international optical networks.
• Work very closely with Federal government network operation centers (NOC) customers for all demand and scheduled maintenance to conform to customer network management requirements and protocols.
• Analyze network troubles, assess performance data and develop design optimization plans accordingly
• Coordinate and track return material authorization (RMA) requests, including vendor interface to obtain RMA authorization requests and completion of RMA submittal forms
• Analyze, test and repair Layer 2/3 network problems. Ensure services conform to customer mandated SLAs for latency, packet loss, jitter, throughput. Ability to test using standard protocols, as well as Iperf and Brix platforms
• Interface with fiber vendors, telecom providers and other entities on complex technical matters.
• Participate as a Lead/SME to select customers to participate in regular customer meetings, procedural reviews, audits, and other functions
• Review and interpret electric data processing (EDP) and as-built engineering documentation

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