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- Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience with technical and process challenges associated with network planning.
- Experience in managing and designing in the optical networking space.
Preferred qualifications:
- Knowledge of forecasting, planning, and design tools.
- Knowledge of networking technologies, and an understanding of related areas within a large-scale network provider.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in an ambiguous and busy operations environment, and deliver outstanding results in a timely manner.
- Ability to collaborate with a diverse range of people and job functions.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
Google is proud to boast a network that provides service to millions of Internet users around the world. The Network Engineering team is responsible for operating that network reliably and at scale. As a member of the team, you have a direct impact on design and feature enhancements to keep our systems running smoothly. You also ensure that network operations are safe and efficient by monitoring network performance, coordinating planned maintenance, adjusting hardware components and responding to network connectivity issues. Google's complex network generates a constant stream of challenges which require you to continually be innovative with an evolving set of technologies. Keeping the network reliable ensures that our users stay connected with our suite of applications, products and services.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
- Produce designs to meet all optical infrastructure and capacity plans for Google’s global core production network.
- Provide subject matter expertise throughout the NPI lifecycle. Incorporate newly NPI’d solutions into plans and designs, and ensure plan and design toolsets and business processes are ready for intaking NPIs.
- Drive the automation roadmap of all automatable tasks performed by the team, substantially reducing cycle time and improving quality and consistency.
- Evolve the business processes governing the generation of designs, throughout their lifecycle (input gathering, generation, validation, publication, handoff), specifically including the definition of the business policies that govern them (architectural/topology, hardware lifecycle, capacity/utilization target).
