Job Description:

Position Title:  Network Engineer - Data (P3)           

 

Company Summary:

Crown Castle is the nation’s largest provider of shared communications infrastructure: towers, small cells and fiber. It all works together to meet unprecedented demand—connecting people and communities and transforming the way we do business. Whenever you make a call, track a workout or stream music and videos, we’re the ones providing the communications infrastructure that makes it all possible. From 5G and the internet of things to drones, autonomous vehicles and AR/VR, we enable the technologies that help people stay safe, connected and ready for the future. Crown Castle is a Fortune 500 company, publicly traded on the S&P 500, and one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trusts in the US, with an enterprise value of ~$100B.

 

Position Summary

The Network Engineer will perform a broad range of implementation and technical project management duties on a team of engineers active in both sustaining and growing the Crown Castle Fiber Network. The engineer will be well versed in the IP/Ethernet discipline. He/she will work as a member of a team to complete major initiatives that are network and/or customer facing. The individual will demonstrate a willingness to grow their skill set and take on new challenges.

Additional responsibilities also include implementing and maintaining internal engineering documents and procedures surrounding network configuration, client configuration, network management, and service level design.

 

Essential Job Functions

•  Strong planning, time management and organizational skills.


•  Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks with minimal direct supervision.


•  Execute backbone network growth, reconfiguration, upgrade and optimization projects.


•  Commissioning of hardware in support of network growth and expansion.


•  Complex network troubleshooting & support.


•  Capacity management.


•  The individual must possess and employ the highest ethical and business standards and always conduct himself/herself with the greatest degree of professional integrity in accordance with the B3 principles.


•  The individual must be detailed oriented and possess the desire and ability to work in a collaborative environment, occasionally in a mentorship role with less experienced team members.


•  Ability to perform duties outside of normal business hours as required.

 

Job Knowledge

Required – IP/Ethernet

•  Basic understanding of BGP, IS-IS, IPv6, OSPF and MPLS, Traffic Engineering, QinQ, G.8032, 802.3ad, 802.3ag, Y.1731.


•  Basic understanding of VPN technologies such as L2VPNs (Martini, Kompella), RFC2547, and VPLS.


•  Must have familiarity with Metro Ethernet products & solutions as defined by MEF.


•  Experience implementing Layer 2 switching platforms and technology.


•  Must have experience working in a Tier2/3 ISP environment using Juniper, Cisco and/or Nokia routing hardware.


•  Basic understanding of Domain Name Service (DNS) policies and Address management.


•  Basic knowledge of network security best practices.

 

Preferred

•  Technical certifications in field from Juniper, Nokia, or Cisco.


•  Direct experience on major platforms deployed in the Crown Castle Fiber network.


•  Experience and basic understanding of data technologies and protocols.


•  Scripting and Automation in a JSON environment. Knowledge of bash, python, XML, YANG/NETCONF.


•  Ability to work in a UNIX systems environment (BSD, Linux, Solaris, etc.).

 

Education/Certifications

• BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science or related field.

 

Experience/Minimum Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in telecommunications.


• Experience in a service provider environment and carrier engineering preferred.

 

Other Skills/Abilities 

•  Technical Certifications: CCIE, CCNP, CCNA, JNCIA, JNCIS, JNCIE.


•  Experience with the following:  QinQ, G.8032, 802.3ad, 802.3ag, STP, PBT, VPLS, MPLS, Traffic Engineering, BGP, IS-IS, IPv6.


• MS Office, Visio, Intermediate PC skills.

 

Organizational Relationship

Reports to: Manager Network Engineering, Sr Manager Network Engineering

 

Title(s) of direct reports (if applicable):  N/A

 

Working Conditions: This role falls into our hybrid work model working in your assigned office approximately 60% of the time (3 days per week) and where you do your best work 40% (2 days per week).  There is an expectation of collaboration with teammates and stakeholders for moments that matter that could require travel.

 

Additional Information: Crown Castle has a COVID-19 Vaccine Policy in place requiring vaccination by your employment start date, unless approved for an accommodation or otherwise prohibited by law.

 

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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