Senior Network Design Engineer
Senior Network Design Engineer
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Network Engineering or Telecom Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience with network routing protocols, design and troubleshooting, with network equipment providers.
- 3 years of experience in DWDM or TCP/IP or system design operations methodology.
- Experience with planning and designing networks (e.g., multiple sites, multiple products, etc.).
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with managing scaled capacity augment/migration projects in a computer networking environment, including data center or colocation environments.
- Experience with network system design, network architecture and technology and network infrastructure.
- Experience with defining system or process requirements, building, integrating, or delivering layer 1, layer 2 or layer 3 network systems.
- Experience with forecasting, planning and design tools, workflow automation tooling and improvement.
- Experience with practical coding.
- Excellent problem solving, cost-benefit analysis, and data analysis skills.
About the job
Google is proud to boast a network that provides service to millions of Internet users around the world. The Network Engineering team is responsible for operating that network reliably and at scale. As a member of the team, you have a direct impact on design and feature enhancements to keep our systems running smoothly. You also ensure that network operations are safe and efficient by monitoring network performance, coordinating planned maintenance, adjusting hardware components and responding to network connectivity issues. Google's complex network generates a constant stream of challenges which require you to continually be innovative with an evolving set of technologies. Keeping the network reliable ensures that our users stay connected with our suite of applications, products and services.
Google's network provides services to millions of Internet users around the world. Our metros are on the edge of our network where Google connects to its users. The Network Team is responsible for operating that network reliably and at scale. Our team owns the full life cycle of all space, power, and network assets in all of Google’s data centers and metro points of presence globally. From the foundation, we are involved from site acquisition to construction and are accountable for what space and power is delivered. We're involved in every facet of network delivery from architecture and design to installation, configuration, activation, and commissioning.
Responsibilities
- Produce plans and designs to meet all network infrastructure and capacity plans for Google’s global production network in line with established standards and product Service Level Objective (SLO), establish and ensure proper blend of CapEx and OpEx.
- Communicate with internal business partners to collect drivers and deadlines for delivering network capacity.
- Design solutions for high bandwidth network delivery and create high-level project plans that identify resource needs and critical paths. Incorporate newly NPI’d solutions into plans and designs and ensure toolset and process readiness for intake.
- Contribute to the automation roadmap to reduce cycle time and improve quality and consistency.
- Evolve business processes governing the generation of designs, throughout their lifecycle (input gathering, generation, validation, publication, handoff), specifically including the definition of the business policies that govern them (architectural/topology, hardware lifecycle, capacity/utilization goal).
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