· Experience with cable industry standard practices, interfaces, operating systems, and protocols such as DOCSIS 3.0/3.1, SIP, and PacketCable
· Excellent understanding of TCP/IP, IPv6, BGP, OSPF, Multicast, and MPLS, working knowledge of IS-IS
· Prior extensive experience surrounding Ethernet and IP Service (Ethernet Private Line, Private LAN, Dedicated Internet, IPVLN, Internet, and Managed Router)
· MEF 2.0 and 3.0 understanding and support
· BGP experience at an ISP level both Corporate and Customer facing
· SME support in Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols that support Business Services
· OAM, CFM understanding and support
· RFC2544, Y.1564 and Y.1731 understanding and support
· IPv4 and IPv6 understanding and support
· WAVE Services understanding and support
· Engineering position focused on Network Automation, Software Defined Networks and Network Virtualization within the Commercial Services line of business.
· Engineer will participate in the evaluation, design, trial and deployment of our next generation network (NGN) products and service delivery.
· Experience with hands on across a national Metro-E, multi-vendor network is preferred. A background supporting a service provider network is a plus.
· Engineer will partner with architecture, BU, service delivery and operations to drive on-going evolution and support of the current platform.
· This individual should have practical knowledge of managed services for customer network implementations.
· Individual should have practical knowledge of large enterprise network implementations in various industries.
· Background in design and deployment of complex data networks in the Midsize and Enterprise Market highly preferred.
· Working knowledge of IPS/IDS (Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems), DDoS, Firewalls and Security event management.
· CCNP, JNCIP certification and equivalent working experience
· It is desirable to have in the cloud management systems like OpenStack and VMware vCloud, Network management products, OSS products and familiarity with industry standards, specifically ETSI
· Operation Escalations – Adv Ops, Service Delivery and Service Assurance support
· Tail-F, Yang, XML, JSON, Java, Perl, Python UNIX Scripting languages required
· Experience of building high-availability (HA) production-grade solutions in virtualised environments
· Familiar with PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL
· Any exposure to supporting Business KPI's, network metrics and performance analysis is a plus.
· Work within Agile/Scrum methodology and approach