Manager, Network Planning

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Lead a team of planning engineers to deliver network enablement plans, optimal network customer experience, and network cost efficiency
  
  
  
  • Network Equipment includes Access (PON and Active Ethernet), service routers, core routers, transport, telemetry, service provider servers, caching, peering, and voice network components
  • Plans include budget codes, high level plan including order of operations, bill of material estimate, and network drawings from applications like Visio to convey the intent of the network augment
  • Develop ongoing traffic flow studies of the network
  • Proactive port and bandwidth capacity management of the network equipment
  • Integrate new markets into the network - this includes initial modeling and detailed project creation if the new market is moving forward. This effort requires coordination with business development, Outside Plant, and Engineering/Implementation teams to ensure alignment of build area and meet points for transport.
  • Lead peering and caching efforts with external providers and initiate projects to implement
  • Update and utilize customer experience metrics to trigger solutions that improve customer experience (example - latency and jitter optimization)
  • Plan infrastructure solutions for carrier and commercial orders when required
  • Lead integration plans for acquisition companies/networks
  • Lead Data Center selection and growth planning for transport and IP peering
  • Proactive life cycle management of production equipment
  
  
  
  
• Develop and evolve published network planning guidelines and processes and publish in systems like Confluence
• Collaborate with Product Development to ensure the network can provide services offered across all customer segments
• Update monthly KPI Operations report for Network Efficiency and Capacity
• Track projects and status with clear and concise updates
  
  
  
  • Create tasks and track to completion using project management tools such as Jira
  
  
  
  
• Communicate with and effectively triage equipment vendor and services when relevant
• Travel to Evansville a minimum of twice a year if remote
• All other duties as assigned

JOB QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in communications/networking
• Previous leadership experience
• Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Proficiency with MS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Ability to create executive level Power Point presentations
• Ability to create and analyze financial total cost of ownership
• Physical network topology design experience spanning multiple geographic areas
• L2 switching/L3 routing knowledge and experience
• Strong understanding of GPON and XGS PON preferred with experience designing these networks
• Experience with Nokia, Calix, and Adtran fiber based access networks
• Experience with DWDM/ROADM and other optical transport systems
• Experience with network monitoring software such as Unified Assurance, Solarwinds, Kentik
• Familiarity with Nokia SAM / NMS / AMS /Altiplano, Adtran AOE, Calix CMS, and MetaSolv preferred

Metronet is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, race, gender, religion, age, national origin, color, disability, or veteran status. EOE/Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran

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