Telecom Transport Engineer

Role title: Telecom Transport Specialist / Engineer

Duration: 20 Months

Location: Rutherford, NJ

Job Description:

Experience in design, implementation and testing of carrier based technologies in support of data center network infrastructure:

• Carrier inside and outside plant fiber backbone infrastructure
• Telco conduit and riser infrastructure
• Carrier manhole right of way
• Inside riser infrastructure
• Inside plant fiber requirements
• Fiber designs to ensure no single points of failure exists within the fiber routes, central offices (local & long distance) and optical wavelength equipment
• Technical experience for installation, pretest and migration of production services
• DWDM
• MPLS
• Ethernet Private Line
• TNS
• Hybrid Cloud technologies and providers
• AWS
• Microsoft Azure
• Google Cloud
• Oracle
• IBM
• Hands on knowledge of data center structured cabling
• Optical
• Single Mode Fiber
• Multimode Fiber
• Electrical
• Cat6 (copper)
• Basic troubleshooting skills and expertise to identify issues within telco infrastructure
• Service provider checks
• Carrier loopback checks
• IP configuration checks
• Ping and trace route (tracert) testing
• Cisco command line tools
• Document
• Review, identify and maintain Carrier Infrastructure documentation
• Carrier As-Builts
• KMZ files
• Inventories
• Experience with colocation data center infrastructure
• Equinix
• Colocation cross connect
• Co-Lo Operations support
• Extranet providers
• Radianz
• Transaction Network Services (TNS)
• IPC
• Generate test plans or scripts detailing network related configurations.
• Create turnover documentation and update all Citi’s inventory systems with the new install information
• Perform system level documentation on Citi platforms and assist in project tracking and documentation.
• Deinstallation and clean up all legacy telco devices and insure all systems in the environment have been removed
• Must be willing to work in Citi Green zone times which are weeknights and weekend 12:00am to 6:00am EST to support network changes

Technical Skills:

• In depth knowledge of Telecomm Carrier Transport networks and technologies with the ability to review, select and implement the appropriate technology to meet business requirements.
• Experience managing Carrier outside/inside plant infrastructure designs to ensure no single points of failure exists within the fiber routes, central offices (local & long distance) and electrical/optical equipment utilized to deliver services to meet business requirements.
• Basic knowledge of Carrier based installation and acceptance testing
• Support Carrier technical solution pretest and migration to production activities.
• Knowledge and hands on experience working with carrier based optical (DWDM) and legacy SONET technologies.
• 10Gb and 100Gb wavelengths
• Legacy OC192 and OC48 platforms
• Telco and data center structured cabling (fiber optics) specs
• Basic working knowledge of layer2 and 3 Cisco router and switch platforms
• Review, identify and document Carrier Infrastructure at the Clifton and Rutherford locations and assist with decommissioning and migration of said infrastructure.
• Complete turnover documentation and update all Citi’s systems with the new install information.
• Clean up all legacy devices and ensure all systems in the environment have been properly decommissioned
• Maintain system level documentation (inventories) on Citi platforms and assist in project tracking
• Knowledge of and hands on experience with Optical DWDM Wavelength (10Gb, 100Gb and 400Gb) and legacy SONET -- OC3, OC12 , OC48, OC192 technologies.
• Knowledge of and hands on experience with legacy Private Line (DS1, DS3, GigE, MPLS, Ethernet Private Line (EPL) & Wireless 4G and 5G and Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) WAN Transport technologies.

Knowledge and familiarity of Cisco Routing & Switching Technologies.,

• knowledge of routing protocols i.e. BGP, OSPF, EIGRP and RIP
• Hardware: Cisco NCS5500, Nexus 9300, ISR 4000, ASR 1000
• Other: Fast Ethernet, GigabitEthernet, Ten GigabitEthernet and 100 GigabitEthernet