Associate Network Engineer (Information Technology)
Position Title: Associate Network Engineer (P2)
Company Summary:
Crown Castle is the nation's largest provider of shared communications infrastructure: towers, small cells and fiber. It all works together to meet unprecedented demand—connecting people and communities and transforming the way we do business. Whenever you make a call, track a workout or stream music and videos, we're the ones providing the communications infrastructure that makes it all possible. From 5G and the internet of things to drones, autonomous vehicles and AR/VR, we enable the technologies that help people stay safe, connected and ready for the future. Crown Castle is a Fortune 500 company, publicly traded on the S&P 500, and one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trusts in the US, with an enterprise value of ~$100B.
Position Summary
In this role, the job requires responding to incoming customer support and or move, add, change, delete (MACD) requests. The primary task is to follow the defined ticket handling process to ensure customer escalations are resolved or escalated swiftly. It is essential for this role to communicate effectively to customers, be attentive and provide constructive and professional responses and to manage tickets properly through closure.
Additional responsibilities also include implementing and maintaining internal engineering documents and procedures surrounding network configuration, client configuration, network management, and service level design.
Essential Job Functions
- Strong planning, time management and organizational skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks with minimal direct supervision
- Execute backbone network growth, reconfiguration, upgrade and optimization projects
- Commissioning of hardware in support of network growth and expansion
- Complex network troubleshooting & support
- Capacity management
- The individual must possess and employ the highest ethical and business standards and always conduct himself/herself with the greatest degree of professional integrity in accordance with the B3 principles
- The individual must be detailed oriented and possess the desire and ability to work in a collaborative environment, occasionally in a mentorship role with less experienced team members.
- Ability to perform duties outside of normal business hours as required
Job Knowledge
Required – IP/Ethernet
- Basic understanding of BGP, IS-IS, IPv6, OSPF and MPLS, Traffic Engineering, QinQ, G.8032, 802.3ad, 802.3ag, Y.1731
- Basic understanding of VPN technologies such as L2VPNs (Martini, Kompella), RFC2547, and VPLS.
- Basic understanding of advanced network routing protocols (BGP, MP-BGP, OSPF)
- Basic understanding in Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies
- Basic knowledge of network security best practices
Desired
- Technical certifications in field from Ciena, Juniper, Nokia, or Cisco.
- Direct experience in Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies
- Experience and basic understanding of technologies and protocols used in your less proliferate discipline
- Scripting and Automation in a JSON environment. Knowledge of bash, python, XML, YANG/NETCONF
- Ability to work in a UNIX systems environment (BSD, Linux, Solaris, etc.)
Education/Certifications
- Associates degree in Networking, Telecommunications, Computer Science or related field
Experience/Minimum Requirements
- 1+ years of experience in telecommunications, Networking, IT Security, or related fields
- Experience in a service provider environment and carrier engineering preferred
Other Skills/Abilities
- Experience with the following: Data: QinQ, G.8032, 802.3ad, 802.3ag, STP, PBT, VPLS, MPLS, Traffic Engineering, BGP, IS-IS, IPv6; Optical: DWDM, SONET, CWDM
- MS Office, Visio, Intermediate PC skills
Organizational Relationship
Reports to: Manager Network Engineering, Sr Manager Network Engineering
Title(s) of direct reports (if applicable): N/A
Working Conditions: This role falls into our hybrid work model working in your assigned office approximately 60% of the time (3 days per week) and where you do your best work 40% (2 days per week). There is an expectation of collaboration with teammates and stakeholders for moments that matter that could require travel.
Additional Information: Crown Castle has a COVID-19 Vaccine Policy in place requiring vaccination by your employment start date, unless approved for an accommodation or otherwise prohibited by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
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