Network Planning Manager jobs in Oregon

POSITION PURPOSE:  Plan, direct, secure, and participate in the design, installation, and connectivity of computer systems and network infrastructure to ensure the stable operation of the companies’ service provider network.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Train, direct and evaluate the priorities, work programs, people and resource allocation within the DFN Network Operations team.
• Develops, implements, and maintains networking standards, policies, and procedures.
• Coordinates and participates in regular on-call and maintenance schedules.
• Act as subject matter expert for all DFN’s network technology, including final escalation point for DFN’s network hardware and software systems.
• Recommend, install, configure, and maintain equipment essential for the delivery of high-quality broadband voice and data services delivered over multiple technologies.
• Participates in 24x7 critical alerting group and responds to major service delivery outages.
• Monitors health and usage of network infrastructure to project future capacity needs and meet or exceed service-level objectives.
• Act as network point person for installation, construction, operation, and break-fix remediation, with root cause analysis of DFN equipment associated with Central Office and Customer Premise Equipment.
• Needs to be familiar with and ensure compliance with best practices in Cyber Security.
• Communicate with stakeholders regarding system status, service updates, planned outages, unplanned disruptions, and service delivery issues.
• Work with field design and installation technicians to ensure timely, efficient, and proper installation and configuration of equipment and connection to the customers’ network.
• Performs other related duties to ensure the efficient and effective functioning of the Network Operations department.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5 years’ experience managing and maintaining IT operations including networking and IT computer systems with preference to deploying Juniper or Arista platforms. Bachelor's degree required.
• Ability to coach, mentor and help other team members learn knowledge or skills in specific technology areas.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work with various levels of management, end users and vendors in a friendly, encouraging, and thoughtful manner.
• Fundamental knowledge of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model.
• Network Engineering experience: should be familiar with DNS, DHCP, IPv4, IPv6, BGP, IBGP, ISIS, OSPF, EVPN, MPLS, Netflow, SNMP, Radius and other related protocols.
• Competent with Local and Wide Area Networking equipment, Virtual Operating Systems, Firewalls, Passive Optical Networking, and other related technologies
• Experience with central office maintenance including power, cooling, back-up generation and fiber cabling.
• Experience overseeing transport systems including CDWM, DWDM, and ROADM.
• Experience with systems design and development from business requirements analysis through to day-to-day management.
• Experience with virtualization environments including knowledge of public and private clouds.
• The ability to make reasoned judgements and plot an appropriate course of action in a time sensitive manner.
• Experience with data backup systems, disaster recovery, and retention policies.
• Experience implementing and maintaining proactive monitoring technologies to ensure system uptime SLAs are met.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Valid Oregon driver’s license.