Zayo
Network Architect
Remote - Ontario
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About the role
- Zayo's 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers.
- Zayo's communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access.
- Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.
Responsibilities
- Work with other team members and groups to develop scalable network designs, solutions and policy recommendations
- Analyze and drive key platform decisions and directions, provide guidance to network planning and operations groups
- Support Zayo's internal product groups by identifying and presenting their network-impacting requirements to the service activations and the network operations teams
- Support and lead development of Zayo's growing network infrastructure through published Architecture design documents
- Provide technical guidance for the NCC support teams
- You will have experience designing, implementing, and documenting new technologies, as well as providing a top tier of troubleshooting and support for customers.
- You will build a network, not white papers.
Requirements
- Deep and substantial operational knowledge and experience with carrier-class routers, switches, and packet-optical platforms, such as Juniper, Cisco, Nokia-ALU, Infinera, and Ciena/Cyan
- Excellent knowledge of the Ethernet, QOS, MPLS/RSVP-TE, L2Circuit/VLL, VPLS-BGP/LDP, L3VPN, G.8032v2, E-OAM, Y.1731, IS-IS, OSPF, MP-BGP, and SNMP protocols
- Experience modeling financial impacts of decisions
- Strong written and oral communications skills with the ability to influence others with your engineering solutions
- Bachelor's Degree from a four-year college or university or equivalent experience
- Minimum of six (6) years of experience in engineering, architecture, or design of an ISP network
- Must have worked in "zero downtime" environments previously
- Ability in representing Zayo at the Standards Development Organizations such as MEF, IEEE, ITU, IETF, ISO, etc.
- Skills in building Layer 2 & Layer 3 networks in both metro and long-haul applications. Experience modeling financial impacts of decisions
- Strong vendor negotiation skills
- Skills in Perl/Python scripting, automation, NETCONF/YANG, and EMS/NMS
Nice to have
- Preferred Certification - JNCIE, CCIE, or MEF-CECP
- Other network related certifications a plus
Compensation
- $70,000 - $100,000 CAD/annually.
Company info
- We are seeking our next Network Architect to join our team!
- You will face both scaling the network and providing additional features necessary for the Zayo Ethernet & IP services that our customers demand.
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