Senior Planning Engineer

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U.S.Full-TimeSenior
Salary84629 - 124122 USD per year
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Job Details

Experience
6+ years
Required Skills
CiscoMicrosoft ExcelPowerPoint

Requirements

  • 6+ years professional telecommunications experience
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher
  • High attention to detail with intense focus on high quality output
  • Ability to successfully prioritize and multitask across multiple projects
  • Demonstrable academic and technical understanding of LAN/WAN internetworking technologies and protocols
  • Technical experience with various Cisco, Juniper, and/or Nokia switch and router platforms
  • Strong data trending and analysis skills
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Proven track record as adept and effective project manager
  • Exceptional intra and interdepartmental collaboration and communications skills
  • Strong computer skills with emphasis on Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Visio, PowerPoint)
  • Positive and professional attitude and demeanor
  • Ability to work both independently and within a team
  • Master’s degree in related field and 2+ years of related experience (Preferred)
  • Experience in an engineering role that included a substantial business/financial focus (Preferred)
  • Computer scientist knowledge, to include data analytics, predictive analysis, automation development, and reporting (Preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic leadership for data network capacity planning
  • Conduct demand forecasting, growth modeling, and establish capacity thresholds to inform investment decisions
  • Develop forward-looking capacity roadmaps and augmentation strategies
  • Support long-term network scalability, performance, and cost efficiency
  • Shape architectural direction and capital planning
  • Develop/define strategic network plans for new network expansion deployments or augments to existing network elements for Switches and Routers
  • Prepare plans and specifications, to include high level overview and requirements to scope project including switch, router, power and space
  • Analyze trending reports to determine areas requiring network expansion, hardware and/or bandwidth augmentation/optimization
  • Ensure the use of the most feasible, practical, and economical methods for completing the work
  • Provide cost data to support capital planning and budgeting
  • Monitor and control project expenditures
  • Analyze layer 3 IP and Layer 2 Ethernet network systems including planning, designing, evaluating, selecting architectural design and integration into current network
  • Collaborate with Architecture and Engineering to resolve interoperability challenges
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