Director, Business Engineering -Lab

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Qualified candidate will work closely with Design, Service Engineering, Sales and Operations teams to provide detailed engineering, operational support and consultation and have the following key responsibilities

• Lead and deliver technical solutions to transfer knowledge and information to other teams to ensure the success of new deployments, reliability, and expansion of the network


• Deliver technical solutions to other teams to ensure reliability and expansion of the network


• Organize and follow up review of test plans and documents with architect, test plans and results


• Generate written engineering documents to support new deployments reducing implementation errors and ensuring deployment success


• Complete engineering tasks for all assigned projects and work closely with operations and sales engineering to provide operational and technical support


• Maintain lab project spending to budget on assigned business


• Determines test and configurations to be used in the production environment for platforms across multiple vendors


• Design plans that meet forecasted demand that promotes scale, reliability, and efficacy of the network.


• Participate in new product introduction project, including testing and documentation activities


• Provide informational guidance and support to the new team members as well as detailed engineering support and consultation to other teams

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the design and test Ethernet and IP networks (Ethernet over Fiber, Ethernet over PON, Ethernet over Coaxial, MPLS & MPLS-T Technologies)


• Knowledge of Layer 2 network design and standards, including Ethernet WAN technologies, MEF services (ELINE, ELAN, E-Tree, E-Access, EVPN), IEEE standards 802.1ad QnQ, 802.1q VLAN tagging, Ethernet OAM 802.3ah and 802.1ag.


• Experience with routing protocols BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, and RIP.


• Implementing a resilient network with redundancy and rapid fail over using MPLS, LACP, G8032


• Implementing security - protection against flooding, denial of service, etc.


• Traffic management and optimization - traffic shaping, classification, policing, queuing, scheduling


• Network Management, performance measurement, fault management, access security.


• Generate and implement Engineering Design Documentation for new network builds or augmentations. Includes engineering of all aspects of Layer 2 thru Layer 4 IP services delivery


• Perform network maintenance, diagnostics work and provide technical support to cross-organizational teams and engineering associates


• Develop, provide, and maintain positive communication with vendors for diagnosing and rectifying problems and candidate possesses strong inter-personal communication skills


• Follow up with the other teams to make sure issues are resolved


• Ability to work well under pressure, meeting multiple deadlines


• Perform other duties as requested by supervisor


• Strong interpersonal and communication skills


• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to assimilate, analyze and correlate large amounts of forensic data from various network, operating system, application, and security devices, logs, and alerts.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE / SKILLS:

• Bachelors degree in electrical engineering or computer science is required. Masters degree is a plus.


• 5+ years experience on network engineering and/or related technical roles architecture and technology planning for Ethernet and/or IP networks in carrier and enterprise service provider environment.


• Experience and strong understanding of network design and architecture for IP/MPLS network , as well as layer 2 and layer 3 switching and routing protocols: OSPF, BGP, LDP, RSVP, MPLS, QoS , Multicast, Ethernet technologies: VLANS, IEEE 801.1Q, QinQ, HSRP, ERPS carrier ethernet, OAM, CFM, Y.1731.


• Ability to deliver stable and reliable result when working on engineering lab certifications


• Multivendor platform expertise. Spirent and testing experience are additional advantage


• Candidate must have the ability to work independently as well as in a team


• Relevant work experience, including field work, experience in POP, carrier hotels is a plus


• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to clearly articulate findings


• Ability to learn new technologies, troubleshoot IP and Ethernet services networks


• CCNP required


• MEF CECP certification is a plus


• Layer 2 and knowledge of MEF standards Highly desirable