Provisioning Engineer Director jobs in California

Task List

• Check emails
• Go over incident queue (JIRA) and assignments - what can be done and reviewed
• Provision circuits for network devices
• ISP providers
• Pass over to activation
• End to end
• Hardware
• How fiber works and where it connects to throughout the entire Data Center (DC)
• Task management and incident management
• Assigning patch panel demarcation point
• Manage 10 - 20 tickets in the queue
• Be responsive
• Be proactive about things that can be automated - process improvements
• Respond to people pinging you and attend meetings
• Programming language - any familiarity with a programming language would be helpful (e.g., Python)
• Show initiative

Fiber Management Tasks

• Get fiber cable to site and then to all necessary circuits - if any issues arise, get in touch with provider - full life cycle
• Understand how fiber runs from outside to inside the building and into spaces
• ISP providers - DC knowledge - Fiber - SOP receivers - patch panels - Meet Me Rooms (MMR’s) - backbone

Interconnect Tasks

• Interconnect
• Meet Me Room
• Meet Me Vault
• Provisioning
• Work with other carriers - if things fail, test with other carriers
• Fiber distribution map - Detailed Location Records (DLR’s)
• Determine where your fiber ends and carrier XYZ starts
• Test and turn up
• Know where to throw a loop
• Go through optics - a passive filter - identify what to look for when a circuit is down

Circuit Provisioning

Circuit Provisioning

• Circuit Ordering
• Test Turn Up
• Break/Fix it

Working with Fiber Carriers

• Vendor relationships
• Familiar with systems and portals that they will be using
• Look at the service request sheet - how to fill it out based on circuits - 100 Gig
• Ethernet, DWDM - this acronym might bring up net engs
• MMR, Patch Panel, Co-located spaces

Understanding of DLC, FOC, CLR

• Someone we want to chat with
• Design and Circuit layout report
• Take this into the database and understand the visual or information that shows the fiber distribution panel, tells you the network assignments and ports.

Nice to Have

1. Familiarity in a Data Center
2. Previous roles as a Network Engineer.