Job Description

About Lumen
Lumen is guided by our belief that humanity is at its best when technology advances the way we live and work. With 450,000 route fiber miles serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the fastest, most secure global platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences. Learn more about Lumen2019s network, edge cloud, security and communication and collaboration solutions and our purpose to further human progress through technology at news.lumen.com, LinkedIn: /lumentechnologies, Twitter: @lumentechco, Facebook: /lumentechnologies, Instagram: @lumentechnologies and YouTube: /lumentechnologies.

The Role

One opening is available for a lead network engineer in the secured office areas within the Security Operations Center (SOC): The SOC provides customer support and trouble resolution for a specific government contract. The successful candidate will hold, or be able to obtain, the required Top Secret clearances. Selected candidate must successfully complete required certifications within the designated timeframe.

The network includes two types of data services, Ethernet VLANs and Layer 3 VPNs, also support for Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol (MVRP) and dynamically configured VLANs. The Lead Engineer position is responsible for providing expert help and technical support to Lumen customers, which includes troubleshooting support at the application layer. This position interfaces with internal Lumen departments, outside vendors, carriers and end user customers. This position has direct impact on the resolution of complex trouble situations.

The Main Responsibilities

Physical layer troubleshooting for Ethernet, OC48/192 circuits.
Expert ability to support application troubleshooting to include, services provided both internally among directly-connected customer sites and externally to government, research, and academic networks both at private and public IXP. Knowledge of troubleshooting circuit degradation issues, including utilization, bandwidth and latency problems.
Expert knowledge with IP routing on multiple router platforms, including data transfer rates or limitations, Quality of Service (QoS) controls, ensure that the Round Trip Delay (RTD) goals are maintained, capacity management, be able to define and describe exceptions or limitations to meeting performance or availability requirements.
Expert knowledge of PRN networks and routing protocols: BGP, VPLS, DNSSEC.
Experience in performance management, details on addressing (IPv4 and IPv6) or other protocol information, routing table and multicast configurations, problem and fault isolation.
Manage and correlate multiple trouble reports. Communicate with customers and others in a repair situation. Mentor others on best practices for solving complex troubleshooting scenarios.
Experience with DMZ maintenance.
Experience with Network Management Services (NMS) and reporting, fault management, configuration management, fulfill contract verification of service, unique network support or management criteria, and customer support management and reporting.
Detailed understanding of the OSI networking model physical, data link, and network layers.
Be able to measure network performance aspects such as latency, jitter, and packet loss.
Drive the research for any security incident and the resulting reporting: Malicious network activity mitigation, IP Spoofing prevention measures, DDOS and netflow monitoring, comprehensive monitoring and alarming of infrastructure components.
Consult with customer and be a key contributor in the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), which will identify issues, problems, and/or opportunities to improve services and systems and then propose major network modifications, upgrades and improvements.

What We Look For in a Candidate

Minimum Qualifications:
Clearance Requirement: ideally S/TS security investigations would be less than 5 years old
5+ years of network management and technical customer support experience; call center experience is a plus.
Associate degree in Engineering, Electronics, Networks or related technical or vocational education or equivalent experience or 7+ years of related work experience.
Alcatel Lucent Network Routing Specialist (NRS) I certification is highly desired.
Cisco and Juniper or other networking certifications are a plus.
Security+, CISSP, GIAC, or other security certifications are a plus.

General Work Competencies / Abilities:
Apply excellent customer service and communication skills.
The desire to mentor others and give support in a complex 24x7 call center.
Demonstrated proficiency with trouble ticketing applications as well as other internal tools.
The ability to be on-call and work some off hours and during holidays.
Experience mentoring/training/coaching/collaborating with other employees in resolving the most difficult troubleshooting scenarios.
Initiate internal escalations on customer's behalf and provide follow up.
Network Management (NMS) tool alarms.
Effectively manages customer expectations (status and clear description of activities).
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and drive research in the quest for greater knowledge and technical depth.
Ability to manage multiple tasks on time, including ticket administration, communications, and follow up activities.
Ability to proactively learn in an 'on-the-job' training environment.
Ability to typically work general office hours, but find ways to reasonably support all shifts in a 7x24x365 environment.

What to Expect Next

Based on your job application information you may be given the opportunity to complete a video interview immediately after applying. This will include a set of questions for you to record a response to in addition to Game Challenges. Completion of this video interview is a requirement in order to be considered for our open position. Now not a good time? No worries, we will also send you an email with a link to complete the video interview. We strongly recommend that you complete this within 5 days of your application date.

Requisition : 241401

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Disclaimer
The above job definition information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Job duties and responsibilities are subject to change based on changing business needs and conditions.