Senior Wide Area Network Engineer
$160,500–$182,000 year
On-siteAdelphi, Maryland, United States
Adelphi, Maryland, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$160,500–$182,000 yearSenior LevelHigh School Or EquivalentEnterprise
Full TimeSenior LevelHigh School Or EquivalentEnterprise
Job Summary
Maintain and operate MDREN's statewide WAN infrastructure, ensuring high availability across core, edge, and optical transport layers while responding to and correcting network problems. Design, engineer, and maintain backbone and regional aggregation networks, leading DWDM optical transport deployments and supporting high-capacity upgrades to 100G/400G. Collaborate with member institutions and partner research networks on interconnection design, troubleshooting reported issues, and providing technical oversight for service documentation and outage notifications. Develop implementation plans, coordinate maintenance upgrades with affected parties, and create documentation, policies, and procedures for network operations.
Required Qualifications
- High School Diploma or GED
- 7 years' experience in the networking field with increasing responsibility
- Demonstrated experience in managing large networking design and implementation projects
- Experience in changing and evolving environments
- Experience supervising staff
- Ability to establish goals, priorities, structures, and processes necessary to implement a complex network infrastructure
- Leadership and teambuilding skills to strengthen and cultivate relationships to internal and external institutions
- Ability to network and interact, as well as support effective partnerships with key constituencies and institutions both inside and outside the USM
- Ability to prioritize ongoing and new projects, as well as conduct research and gather information
- Must be skilled as a technical troubleshooter with the ability to think logically to define and solve problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate complex network issues or strategies to audiences with varying network knowledge or experience
- Ability to equate the output levels of various system designs, media, and operating levels to schedule and coordinate a 24-hour operation with limited staff
- Knowledgeable and experienced in various networking technologies, services and protocols that are typical of a large enterprise network including Ethernet, TCP/IP, SNMP, SMTP, DHCP/BootP, DNS, OSPF, ARP/RARP, VPNs, VLANs, BGP, Subnets, and Routing
- Knowledgeable in use of network management and command language and graphical analysis tools
- On-hands experience with Cisco/Juniper/Brocade/Arista switches and routers
- Demonstrated skill in programming in more than one language
- Must be able to work in a collaborative, team environment
- Must be a self-starter and be able to proactively identify problems (or potential problems) and propose solutions
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science, network engineering, or related discipline
- Experience working for an Internet Service Provider (ISP) or similar business
- Outside fiber plant experience
- Knowledge of wide area networking (WAN) design, architecture, and operational principles
- Skill in analyzing network traffic using flow technologies such as Cisco NetFlow, Juniper JFlow, and sFlow
- Skill in performing packet capture and analysis using tools such as Wireshark
- Knowledge of optical networking technologies, including transponders, muxponders, and ROADMs
- Knowledge of optical transport and amplification technologies, including Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA) and Raman amplification
- Knowledge of optical channel planning and wavelength management concepts
- Knowledge of traffic engineering principles and routing policy design
- Knowledge of multi-domain network architectures and interconnection models, including REN and ISP peering
- Skill in Unix/Linux system administration, including configuration and management of DNS (BIND), web servers (e.g., Apache), databases (e.g., MySQL), backups, and software package management
- Skill in Cacti and EXFO OTDRs, DWDM technologies, MPLS Virtual Leased Line (VLL), Virtual Private LAN service (VPLS), Microsoft Windows Server, and VMWare
- Skill in programming or scripting using languages such as Perl, C/C++, and Unix shell scripting, including CGI scripting
- Ability to create and maintain web content using WordPress or similar content management systems
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