Sr Network Engineer - Data na Crown Castle

For more than three decades, Crown Castle has led the way in shared communications infrastructure, delivering profitable solutions by connecting communities, businesses, and people, and enabling each to thrive with reliable access to voice and data in more places, faster than ever before. When you join Crown Castle, you become part of a dynamic team of passionate and collaborative professionals engaging in complex challenges and contributing to projects that shape the future of life and work.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Sr. Network Engineer plays a critical part in expanding and supporting Crown Castle’s IP/MPLS backbone network as well as designing, implementing, and maintaining automation solutions that support our network infrastructure. In this role, you will focus on optimizing network operations and enhancing efficiency in a telecommunications service provider environment.

Although you'll be hired as a Crown Castle employee, your employment and the responsibilities associated with this job likely will transition to an acquiring company in the future. For more information, please visit: https://www.crowncastle.com/strategic-review-results

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Build and Grow the Network: Design and execute backbone network growth, reconfiguration, upgrade, and optimization projects, including commissioning of hardware.
• Data analysis and reporting: Collect and analyze network data to generate actionable insights, helping the network engineering team make informed decisions
• Maintain the network: perform complex network troubleshooting and support.
• Improve Efficiency: Integrate into our network engineering team to assist in the development of automation tools that align with the organization’s needs in a multi-engineer environment.
• Configuration development: Work with peer organizations to develop and create configuration standards for new products, services, and devices.
• Network maintenance: Implement automated maintenance strategies to proactively identify and resolve potential network issues before they impact operations.
• Troubleshooting: Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex issues including: BGP routing policies, control plane interactions with MPLS/RSVP, L2VPN, L3VPN, and EVPN.
• Network performance optimization: Utilize automation to analyze network performance data and recommend improvements for optimal network operations.
• Documentation: Document processes and workflows for knowledge sharing and troubleshooting, creation of standardized procedures, and methods of procedures for commissioning, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Understanding emerging technologies: Keep up to date with the latest advancements in networking and automation technologies to ensure our network and tools remains at the forefront of technology.
  

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science or related field required

Experience Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with network technologies and protocols used at layers 2 and 3 including BGP, IS-IS, IPv6, OSPF, OSPFv3, MPLS, RSVP, Traffic Engineering, QinQ, G.8032, Y.1731, VPN technologies including VPLS, L2VPN, L3VPN, EVPN
• Experience managing full lifecycle of network development including establishing requirements, testing/validation, documentation, configuration, standards, and feature enhancements in a multi-vendor and multi-engineer environment
• Scripting and automation experience using Python, XML, YANG/NETCONF, Ansible, YAML, GitHub/Gitlab and any other scripting languages not already mentioned.
• Experience developing API’s.
• Familiarity with Cisco NSO and similar model-driven automation
• Experience in a Service Provider environment using Juniper, Nokia, and Cisco routing hardware, including making network changes at scale.
• UNIX/Linux system experience 
• Scripting and automation experience using Python, XML, YANG/NETCONF, Ansible, YAML, GitHub/Gitlab preferred

Where You Will Work

Hybrid: This role falls into our hybrid work model, which is 2-days work from home (Monday and Friday) and 3-days in the office (Tuesday through Thursday) to optimize collaboration, relationship building and key stakeholder engagement and may require some travel as needed.

This position may require working irregular hours including weekends and holidays. 

COMPANY BENEFITS

At Crown Castle, we do our best to ensure you have access to the resources you need to live a healthy and happy life no matter where you are in life. Our benefits are built around your individual needs, covering physical, mental, and financial health and designed to enhance your quality of life.

We are proud to offer a full suite of health and wealth benefits for you and your loved ones. Below are a few of the key highlights of the many benefits we provide.

• Comprehensive healthcare plans with highly company subsidized premiums and up to $2,000 annual company contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA base plan for employee and dependents).
• Market-leading 401(k) plan, which includes up to 10% company contributions through our 5% match and 5% profit sharing program (based on employee contributions).
• New-child leave up to 8 weeks of 100% paid leave upon birth or legal adoption of a new child. Birth mothers are eligible for up to 8 weeks of additional 100% paid medical leave.
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year of eligible tuition and fees.
• Crown Castle scholarship program awarding up to $10,000 per recipient each year for eligible dependent children of employees and interns.
• Matching charitable contributions to qualified charitable organizations of up to $1,000 per year per teammate.
• Generous paid time-off for eligible full-time employees (minimum 18 days per year based on years of service).
• 10 company holidays plus 2 floating holiday.
• All offices provide free beverages and snacks.

Compensation
The salary range offered for this position is $118,000 - $162,300 annually. A candidate's offer is determined by various factors including but not limited to, depth of experience, role-related knowledge and skills, relevant education or training, internal alignment, and work location. Depending on the position offered, the compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of a discretionary annual cash bonus or commissions, and equity incentives.

Additional Information
Pursuant to the Los Angeles County and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

If you are interested in joining our team, please visit the Crown Castle careers site to apply. We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other third-party suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us. This position will remain posted until filled.