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POSITION DESCRIPTION
Network Engineer, Associate (Early in Career)
Rewarding experience. Meaningful outcomes.
Making a difference in people's lives through design and implementation of leading network technologies. That's what motivates us.
Embrace diversity. Celebrate inclusion. Champion ideas. From across the table to around the world, our path to innovation comes from our friendly environment and outstanding people. That's the Ciena network.
Responsibilities
This position is a technical role to lead the delivery of network solution, providing post-sales support for delivery, Solution Engineering services like Solution Design, Solution Acceptance, Remote Deployment support and Network Reconfiguration/Migration.
Will interfaces with the following functional groups on a day-to-day basis; Systems Engineers (SE), Service Project Managers (SPM), Technical Support, Field Service Engineers and Customer Service Avocate.
Basic theoretical and/or practical knowledge of L0/L1 optical/transmission and/or Layer2-3 (IP protocols) and/or scripting/DevOps skills
General Activities
1. Support service partners engineers during project deployment
2. Reviews the Technical Deployment Package details with both Internal and External Resources to ensure that the are understood by all members of the Deployment Team
3. Serves an escalation point for issues/problems related to the Technical Deployment Package contents. Works with the Pre-Sales, Customer, and Internal Ciena Groups to resolve any design or product related issues and translates resolutions to the field
4. Responsible for archiving the As-Built Documentation Sets for future network upgrade support
Collaboration with stakeholders
5. Participates on Customer kick-off calls and provides support to the Deployment Project Managers
6. Provide technical guidance to the Presales Engineers to ensure that the Network Design meets both Customer and Serviceability requirements
Areas of impact (Basic theoretical and/or practical knowledge/expertise required)
7. Layer 0/1 (ie, SDH, DWDM, ROADM, Control Plane, etc) Ciena or other vendor product knowledge,
8. Layer 2-3 knowledge, and/or
9. Scripting/DevOps skills (ie, Phyton, JAVA, Ansible, etc)
Experience
10. B.S. Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, or a related field of discipline
11. Mandatory not more than 5 years of experience
12. Ability to work directly with various cross-functional groups to resolve issues and establish best practices
13. Good Customer Service interaction skills
14. Excellent English language written and verbal communications skills
15. Expert knowledge of MS Office applications (Visio, Excel, Power Point, etc.)
16. Ability to handle travel (approx. 25%)
17. Ability to work at night on maintenance windows (25%)
18. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
19. Ability to review and analyse project information quickly and accurately
20. Ability to take a conceptual design and develop a process to make it a reality
21. Communications/technology focused career goals
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