Wednesday, November 26, 2014

WiLine Networks - Senior Network Architect

Company Description
WiLine Networks, Inc. is a leading broadband wireless communications company, offering rewarding career opportunities for a highly talented and motivated Network Engineer.  We are a rapidly growing fixed-wireless voice and data services provider, currently in the San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento areas.  WiLine is expanding into Denver, and will soon be in 32 major markets across the United States.

WiLine offers fast, flexible and affordable communications services solutions to businesses, building owners and wholesale providers.  We are looking for a network engineer in either Denver, CO or San Carlos, CA to help architect, design, implement and operate a large-scale, carrier-class, wide-area network.  WiLine is seeking a highly motivated and energetic individual with detailed knowledge of networking technology and good network practices to help us continuously improve our network reliability and profitability as we grow our successful regional network to nationwide scale.

Responsibilities
- Architect, design, implement and operate a carrier-class wide area network.
- Design and implement new metro market networks.
- Design and implement major infrastructure projects.
- Develop architectural standards.
- Engineer path, capacity and power redundancy.
- Implement MPLS for dynamic transport failover of EVPL/VPLS.
- Guide development of automated provisioning, capacity planning, and IP number administration software.
- Perform network capacity planning.
- Upgrade network hardware and software components as required.
- Refine and document network operational processes.
- Provide Tier 3 escalation support to Technical Services in the event of network or customer outages.
- Participate in on-call rotation.
- Perform root cause analysis of service-affecting events.
- Initiate, champion, guide and implement projects to improve network reliability and security.
- Determine and meet project timelines.
- Architect, design and implement solutions for IPv6 and IPv4 exhaustion.
- Solve complex problems with technical, financial and social variables.

Required Qualifications
- high-level routing & switching expertise
- 5+ years of hands-on network design and engineering experience
- expertise in creating reliable, large-scale network architectures
- excellent technical writing and interpersonal communications skills
- natural orientation toward knowledge-sharing and mutual support
- highly self-motivated and self-directed
- professional, dependable and supportive, even in stressful situations or under tight timelines
- detail-oriented perfectionist who knows when something is good enough and it's time to move on
- expert in the theory and practical application of network protocols and features: TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, 10GE/GE/FE, 802.1Q, MLS/L3 switching, ping, traceroute, HSRP, ACLs, DNS

Desired Qualifications
- CCIE Routing & Switching certification
- 5+ years of hands-on network design and engineering experience with voice and data service providers
- hands-on experience with some of the following: MPLS, LDP, EVPL/ELINE/pseudowire, VPLS/ELAN, VoIP/IPT (Asterisk), SIP, QoS, CoS, DiffServ, 802.1p, 803.x, 802.1Qbb, fping, MTR, TACACS+, MEF/CE 2.0, SDN, IPAM, IPv6, carrier strategies for IPv4 exhaustion.
  + Cisco 9000, 903, 901, 3550/3508/3750/3560 hardware.
  + Cisco IOS, IOS XE, IOS XR software.
  + Linux, vi/Vim/emacs, programming languages (Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Expect/TcL, sh/bash), Postgres, Wireshark.
- B.S. in engineering or a related technical field

Please send your resume to jobs@wiline.com