Senior Lead Network Engineer — Hybrid (Metro IP/MPLS)

Page Mechanical Group, Inc.; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Forged Fiber is seeking a Senior Lead Network Engineer to design, engineer and operate the Metro IP network, spanning multiple domains. You will serve as a senior technical authority for Layer 2/3 networking, routing protocols, and carrier-grade services on Cisco, Juniper and Ciena platforms.

In this role, you will drive architecture reviews, standards, and modernization efforts while mentoring engineers across Architecture, Engineering, Operations, NOC and Planning.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of service provider or telecommunications network engineering experience.
• Extensive experience designing, implementing and supporting Metro Ethernet and IP/MPLS networks.
• Direct experience supporting carrier-grade Metro Ethernet services in a Tier 3 or Tier 4 engineering role.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaboration with Network Architecture teams to define, validate, and evolve Metro Ethernet, IP/MPLS, and transport network architectures.
• Develop and maintain engineering standards governing Layer 2 and Layer 3 network design, resiliency, scalability, redundancy, and operational supportability.
• Drive architecture reviews and network modernization initiatives.
• Serve as the primary technical authority for BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, LDP, RSVP-TE, Segment Routing, and route policy engineering.
• Design, implement and support large-scale IPv4 and IPv6 routing architectures.
• Lead resolution of complex routing convergence and protocol interoperability issues.
• Serve as the senior technical authority for Metro Ethernet service delivery and operational support.
• Support E-Line, E-LAN, EVPL, EPL and carrier Ethernet services.
• Troubleshoot complex customer-impacting Metro Ethernet issues across multiple domains.
• Lead lab validation and certification of hardware, software, routing features and transport services.
• Evaluate Cisco, Juniper and Ciena technologies for deployment.
• Provide technical leadership across Architecture, Engineering, Operations, NOC and Planning teams.
• Mentor engineers and drive engineering best practices.
• Serve as the highest level escalation point for outages and service disruptions.
• Lead root cause analysis and preventative action planning.
• Lead modernization, migration and infrastructure expansion programs.

Skills

Layer 2/3 networking

BGP

OSPF

IS-IS

MPLS

EVPN

Metro Ethernet

Cisco

Juniper

Ciena

Leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor degree in Engineering/CS/Telecommunications

CCNP, CCIE, JNCIP, JNCIE or equivalent certifications desirable

Tools

Cisco

Juniper

Ciena

Python

Ansible

Job description

Forged Fiber is seeking a Senior Lead Network Engineer to design, engineer and operate the Metro IP network, spanning multiple domains. You will serve as a senior technical authority for Layer 2/3 networking, routing protocols, and carrier-grade services on Cisco, Juniper and Ciena platforms.

In this role, you will drive architecture reviews, standards, and modernization efforts while mentoring engineers across Architecture, Engineering, Operations, NOC and Planning.