Principal Network Engineer

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

The Procurement Management and ASP Engineering Team manages a wide variety of responsibilities for our Network Group. From contract negotiations with third party suppliers that bring services and support into the Verizon Network to performance monitoring and troubleshooting of operational issues. ASPs are external third-party companies that provide data, content, or other services which enable our commercial wireless data offerings to our customers.

Yourprimary role will be working with internal and external teams to develop a database to mine all the various contracts for all of Network’s services to be able to query and create meaningful comparisons of like terms, assist product owners in negotiations by providing comparative pricing models, and help ASP Operations personnel manage contractual terms. This will formulate the launch of PMT’s 2.0 launch of our internal portal. Subsequently, the database shall enable the reporting of efficiency models that will take quarterly operational input and characterize suppliers against their relative cost structures to inform the business on which suppliers are returning the best value against the investment.

Youwill be working closely with internal contract team members to help inform the design and structure of the database. You will also interface with product managers and owners external to our team as well as other ASP Operations teams to create alarming and notifications when specific contractual terms are approaching critical milestones to prevent service disruptions.

• Create the database structure from scratch to include various contractual terms as entry fields.
• Work with internal Network security teams as well as cloud platform teams for a secure and redundant solution.
• Work with internal teammates on creating data-entry fields to populate the database with existing contract terms as well as onboard newly execute contracts.
• Create query strings for various parameters, including specific KPI’s, expirations, network deployment types as well as monthly/annual operational expenses.
• Create alarms against specific contract values to alert product owners when certs may need to be reviewed or contracts extended with sufficient lead time to execution without disruption, or when contracts have reached a specific target period whereby an RFP should be launched to investigate the market for emergent suppliers.
• Create quarterly reporting that evaluates all suppliers against common contractual terms, network deployment types, or even KPI standards.
• Develop the efficiency model that compares pricing against network types, KPI targets and compares that to quarterly operational review data supplied by the ASP Operators.
• Create and present ad-hoc reporting to leadership and stakeholder teams, both internal and external.
• Be driven to continuously seek opportunities for improvement of the system(s) and process(es) to better serve the needs of customers, both internal and external.

Where you’ll be working:

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location at one of Verizon’s main Network locations that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

What we’re looking for...

Communicating with others comes naturally to you. You know that different team members and partners have different needs and you flex your style and approach to be most effective. People trust you and come to you for advice and counsel. You make connections between data derived from different sources and synthesize it into one complete picture. You thrive in a fast-paced environment with multiple highly visible projects with lots of competing priorities.

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience creating and supporting relational databases in a cloud environment.
• Knowledge of SQL, Python.
• Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline, computer science, information technology, or another related field.
• Five or more years of experience in wireless telecommunications and data networking.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect- Associate or Professional; AWS Certified Big Data- Specialty or GCP/MS Azure equivalents
• Two or more years of experience in remote technical support.
• Two or more years of experience in project management, account management, relationship management.
• Red Hat System Administrator, OpenStack experience.
• Experience with Ansible, Kubernetes.
• Python Certifications.
• Experience with cloud-based wireless network architectures, network traces & tracing programs such as IrisView & Netscout.
• A+, MCSE, CCNA, or related certifications.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

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COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

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