Military Fellowship - Wireless Network Engineer

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely - even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love - driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

Join Verizon as we continue to expand our industry-leading network to improve the ways people, businesses, and things connect. Verizon is positioned to lead the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" (4IR) with the emergence of technologies like our outstanding 5G network and the Internet of Things (IoT) to impact a wide variety of industries such as healthcare, education, manufacturing, public safety, government, and many others. We are in the midst of historic breakthroughs in connectivity and mobility to blend the physical and the digital through ground breaking technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, nanotechnologies, 3D printing, wearables, and advanced robotics. As part of this team, you will play a meaningful role in our network transformation through building a unified network across all lines of business and maintaining the technology that keeps millions of our customers connected.

The Global Network Management Team is seeking motivated and driven engineers to support management of Verizon's Intelligent Edge Network encompassing Unified Transport, NGPON2, Multi-Service Edge, Base Network Controller, IP Routing, and Converged Core technologies. You will provide surveillance/maintenance and DevOps support for Verizon's Global Transport (Layer 0, 1 and 2) networks. You will conduct alarm monitoring, outage management, maintenance scheduling and provide technical assistance to Field Operations on the repair of global transport platforms. You will also be responsible for monitoring the implementation of transport network change control activities and performing pre/post technology checks.

• Handling phone calls to respond to network alarms and events for proactive network monitoring.

• Managing Trouble Tickets, Outage communications, and process issues for internal and external customers.

• Generating, driving, and updating Trouble Tickets via internal ticketing system.

• Performing fault isolation, triaging, and repairing network events to ensure the health of our network.

• Working with external and internal Verizon organizations to coordinate and fix network events.

• Providing network technical assistance to external teams by communicating technical details to customer service centers, technical support organizations, and executive management teams during network events and major outages.

• Improve automation through scripting and robotics process automation (RPA) to improve team functions and efficiency.

Must be a current participant of the Department of Defense Skillbridge Program or of the Hiring our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program.

You are an analytical, forward-thinking, and collaborative-minded network engineer. Your dedication and flexibility help to solve complex problems, and you're eager to help us evolve to meet the demands of running the network of tomorrow.

• Must be a current participant of the Department of Defense Skillbridge Program or of the Hiring our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program.

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Three or more years of relevant work experience.

• Knowledge of TCP/IP.

• Experience with Python scripting.

• Experience driving automation initiatives and process improvements.

• Willingness to work flexible hours including night shift work with dayshift hours as needed to support project requirements, and serve as part of a 24x7 on-call rotation.

• A degree in Telecommunications, Computer Science or Electronics.

• Three or more years of experience in Network Operations.

• Knowledge of IP telecommunication equipment and technologies (Cisco, Juniper, Adtran, Calix).

• Knowledge of routing protocols (MPLS, LDP, BGP, IS-IS, OSPF), cloud computing and virtualization.

• Knowledge of specialized telecommunications equipment (Ciena 6500T/S, & Cisco) and technologies.

• Knowledge of optical DWDM system & optical distribution network (GPON).

• Strong customer service and interpersonal skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work in fast-paced, dynamic environment while multitasking.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

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