Data Center Engineer

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely - even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love - driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

Continuous improvement efforts drive our business and you will work with customer technical teams to provide solutions for customers' internetworking communications requirements. You will be performing network design activity for our large enterprise customer data networks. As the main interface to customers in support of their WAN/LAN enterprise projects, you will make us better by building great enterprise customer data networks.

• Investigating, crafting, planning, and implementing communications networks.

• Partnering with customer teams to develop solutions that support their requirements.

• Preparing rack elevation schematics to define and illustrate network design solutions.

• Crafting hardware and software configuration upgrades.

• Preparing detailed work requests for technicians.

• Installing hardware and cabling into datacenters in coordination with other engineering teams.

• Perform smarthands activities on location for remote engineers.

• Manage work orders that impact the datacenter as the on-site engineering lead.

• Remotely assist other engineers with scheduled maintenance and other tasks

Your technical skills are top notch, and you are known for digging into the details to find the best solutions. You know how to get to the bottom of your customers' needs, and how to manage your partners' expectations. Talking to people comes very naturally to you and you have an ability to communicate complex information in a way that people understand - whether verbal or written.

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Four or more years of relevant work experience.

• Must be able to pass an extensive background investigation as a condition of employment.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• A degree.

• Prior experience operating datacenters and overseeing implementation in support of customer buildouts.

• Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA) certification.

• Project management experience.

• Experience with contemporary technologies including MPLS, TCP/IP, IPSec, BGP, QoS, IP Telephony, Multicast, and/or other similar tools.

• Designed and implemented large scale datacenter operations.

Why Verizon?

Verizon is committed to maintaining a Total Rewards package which is competitive, valued by our employees, and differentiates us as an Employer of Choice.

• We are a 'pay for performance' company and your contribution is rewarded through competitive salaries, performance-based incentives and an employee Stock Program. We create an opportunity for us all to share in the success of Verizon and the value we help to create through this broad-based discretionary equity award program.

• Your benefits are market competitive and delivered by some of the best providers.

• You are provided with a full spectrum of health and wellbeing resources, including a first in-class Employee Assistance Program, to empower you to make positive health decisions.

• We offer generous paid time off benefits.

• Verizon provides training and development for all levels, to help you enhance your skills and develop your career, from funding towards education assistance, award-winning training, online development tools and access to industry research.

• You will be able to take part in volunteering opportunities as part of our environmental, community and sustainability commitment.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

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