Network Engineer II

LAB NETWORK ENGINEER II
The Select Group is currently hiring for a Lab Network Engineer II to join as a resource for one of our clients within the Telecommunications industry that will be working a hybrid schedule sitting in Fort Worth, TX. This Engineer will be joining a team of 7 total that all have the same goal, to full-fill customer requests for networking equipment and services. This team of 6 Network Engineer II's and 1 Team Lead will be functioning inside of a lab or centralized warehouse where they will be responsible for checking out, setting up/staging, and testing networking equipment before approving to be sent directly to customers. This role is essential in ensuring reliability and quality to customers by identifying core issues and resolving before customers experience these issues first hand. If this is something you are interested in an a fit for please apply today!
 
LAB NETWORK ENGINEER II REQUIREMENTS:

• 2-5 years of professional Network Engineering/Technician/Support experience. Must possess physical hands on expertise with a variety of networking devices such as modems, routers, switches, cables, servers etc.
• Hands on experience troubleshooting or installing Cisco product specifically Cisco UCS C-Series Servers series M2, and M4 products
• Must possesses an expertise with Cisco Meraki products and services as well
• Previous exposure to a variety of vendor devices such as Ciena, Nokia, Juniper, and ADVA/ADTRAN equipment used for Cisco's services
• IT support/technician/networking experience hands on with networking equipment (rack and stack, lab set ups, staging, testing, etc.)

• Telecommunications industry experience. Understanding of how telecom connections interact with physical vendor devices
• Jira experience previously used to receiving and tracking ticket requests. Staging or installation tickets for networking equipment preferably

• Received and review Jira tickets sent to the team usually structured as BOM's - Bill of Material's which is a list of parts needed for a particular customer"
• Check-out parts from the supply chain team to use for the lab set-up
• Design and set up the equipment physically in a Lab/Warehouse environment. as well as backend configurations and network protocols based on the customer asks
• Load configurations and protocols into the physical network devices before testing
• 24 hour "burn on" period to see how the network is performing and monitoring to identify areas to troubleshoot before confirming a shipment
• Sign-off an verify the testing meets business standards before packaging for shipment to customer sites in a variety of geographical locations (nation-wide)