Strategic Network Provisioning Engineer II

astreya; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Astreya is seeking a Network Provisioning Engineer II in Greater London to serve as the focal point for orders to maintain the network. The role requires independent work with high attention to detail and a background in telecommunications provisioning.

The candidate will implement software services, review requirements, track milestones, and provide timely updates throughout the lifecycle while escalating issues to ensure timely delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 2–5 years' related experience or equivalent.
• Builds productive internal and external working relationships.
• Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Experience with basic telecommunications practices, terminologies and interfaces.
• Knowledge of cable throughput and transit distances.
• Understanding of provisioning network bandwidth for IP transit, fiber, voice and wavelength services.

Responsibilities

• Participate in implementation of various software services.
• Review ticket requirements, reserving router interface, assigning patch panel demarcation, designing path, track FOC and DLR, requesting patching between equipment, and ordering cross-connects.
• Track milestones and proactively drive any activities that may jeopardize orders from completing on time.
• Provide thorough and timely status throughout the entire implementation life cycle in the tracking system; including communicating vendor provisioning/install lead times
• Document service requests, escalate as needed, and provide timely and accurate updates
• Design, provision, and test delivered services to ensure quality hand-off to internal customers
• Expedite and escalate issues when necessary to ensure timely delivery of services
• Prioritize projects, manage and direct activities to deliver connectivity within project schedule
• Communicate and collaborate with internal customers, stakeholders and network carriers
• Participate in metrics development and operational reporting/reviews
• Support planned systems maintenance activity while minimizing impact to services
• Read and comprehend vendor specific requirements
• Other duties as required. This list is not meant to be a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities assigned to this position

Skills

Relationship building

Judgment in procedures

Telecommunications basics

Cable throughput knowledge

ASR to carriers

IP transit provisioning

Education

Bachelor's degree (B.S./B.A.)

Job description

Astreya is seeking a Network Provisioning Engineer II in Greater London to serve as the focal point for orders to maintain the network. The role requires independent work with high attention to detail and a background in telecommunications provisioning.

The candidate will implement software services, review requirements, track milestones, and provide timely updates throughout the lifecycle while escalating issues to ensure timely delivery.