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Our partner is the world's premier voice, video and data communications company, serving consumers, businesses and government. Backed by the research and development capabilities of its Labs, the company runs the world's largest, most sophisticated communications network, and is the largest cable operator in the U.S. The company is a leading supplier of data and Internet services for businesses and offers outsourcing, consulting and networking-integration to large businesses.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, configuring, and supporting the WAN/LAN infrastructures for several accounts
• Providing lifecycle management, quality assurance, customer communications and technical/troubleshooting support
• Being assigned to multiple complex accounts encompassing a wide range of technical feature sets
• Traffic engineering, hardware/software configuration, diversity analysis, disaster recovery analysis, inventory management, utilization analysis, network implementation, problem management and general subject matter expertise
• Coordinating closely with vendors to resolve production problems and to ensure product quality
• Receiving escalations from operations teams and resolving customer-impacting network outages
• Working with other internal teams on chronic problems in the network
• Using engineering specified hardware and software configurations for new network elements and coordinating with field support organizations to install these elements
• Coordinating with planning and engineering organizations to ensure all plans integrate seamlessly with existing architectures and processes
• Introducing new technologies to the production environment and ensuring these technologies are ready for wide scale deployment
• Performing complex changes to networks that impact customers nationally and internationally
• Working on problems of extremely complex scope where analysis of situations or data requires in-depth evaluation covering all aspects of IP based networking
• Providing guidance and leadership to the work of others on the team and serves as a technical knowledge source within the organization
• Making major contributions that have direct impact on the quality of service provided to customer
• Achieving results that have business benefits such as cost savings and efficiency improvements to the network

This is project covering life cycle management. Working time is flexible, US working hours are being followed.

Technical requirements:

• Good understanding of large networks, network equipment, provisioning, trouble isolation, and equipment configuration
• Good understanding of routing protocols, routed protocols, security, and application services
• Significant experience with Cisco Routers/Switches, especially: TCP/IP, eBGP, iBGP, EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, DLSW, QOS, MPLS, HSRP/VRRP and Multicasting
• Knowledge of Layer 2 and 1 protocols/services: Switching, VLANs, Ethernet, STP, Frame-Relay, ATM, Private Line, DS1, DS3, OCx
• Experience with VoIP and IPT is a plus
• Excellent communication, client interface and project management skills
• Degree in Computer Science is preferred
• 3+ years experience
• Ability to mentor others
• Cisco Certifications preferred: CCNP, CCIE, CCIP and CCDP
• Additional preferable non-Cisco knowledge: HP, Juniper, Siemens hi-path

Other requirements:

• Perfect communication skills in English, both written & verbal
• Flexibility
• Analytical skills
• Ability to handle stress situations well