AT&T Senior Network System Engineer

Working time: US hours (14-22:30), From 19:00 possibility of HO

The position Senior Network System Engineer is responsible for designing, configuring, and supporting the WAN/LAN infrastructures for several accounts. It will also provide lifecycle management, quality assurance, customer communications, and technical/troubleshooting support. The candidate will be assigned to multiple complex accounts encompassing a wide range of technical feature sets.

Senior System Engineer manages, delivers and deploys aspects of network architecture, design, engineering and detail network specifications in order to migrate client from current network environment to the new environment. Also includes vendor management, client relations, resource planning and management, project management, quality assurance, new equipment installation and configuration and client training.

Candidate will coordinate closely with vendors to resolve production problems and to ensure product quality. Receives escalations from operations teams and resolves customer-impacting network outages. Candidate works with other internal teams (ATT Labs) on chronic problems in the network. Uses engineering specified hardware and software configurations for new network elements and coordinates with field support organizations to install these elements. Coordinates with planning and engineering organizations to ensure all plans integrate seamlessly with existing architectures and processes.

The successful candidate will introduce new technologies to the production environment and ensures these technologies are ready for wide scale deployment. Performs complex changes to networks that impact customers nationally and internationally. Works on problems of extremely complex scope where analysis of situations or data requires in-depth evaluation covering all aspects of IP based networking. Provides guidance and leadership to the work of others on the team and serves as a technical knowledge source within the organization. Makes major contributions that have direct impact on the quality of service provided to customers. Candidate must achieve results that have business benefits such as cost savings and efficiency improvements to the network.

Responsibilities will also include:
• traffic engineering
• hardware/software configuration
• diversity analysis
• disaster recovery analysis
• inventory management
• utilization analysis
• network implementation
• problem management and general subject matter expertise