NETWORK ENGINEER (REMOTE)

XL BROADBAND

LOCATION: Remote.

FULL-TIME.

WHO WE ARE

ARE YOU AN EXCEPTIONAL NETWORK ENGINEER?

Do you enjoy working with cutting edge technology? 

Are you looking for a fun, long-term career that always encourages you to grow?

Are you seeking an opportunity where you can work independently, yet be part of a winning team?

If so, you may be who we are looking for.

XL Broadband is one of the fastest growing ISP's in the Midwest and has more sales than our current team can handle. WE ARE NOW HIRING A NETWORK ENGINEER. WE ARE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO IS ENERGETIC, OUTGOING, HARDWORKING, AND EAGER TO LEARN AND WORK WITH OTHERS.

POSITION SUMMARY

Key deliverables include the following:

• ⮚ Within 3 months of hire, establish a baseline process (in line with industry best standards) to classify, engineer and rapidly provision all network equipment to be deployed to customers and at sites. Implement the same within 4 months of hire.
• ⮚ Within 3 months of hire, evaluate current timelines to completion for (a) new site deployment, (b) existing site troubleshooting, (c) customer installation, and (d) customer service call processes. Identify areas for improvement, and develop and implement a plan to streamline the same in line with industry standards. In particular, research, test and implement a process that will increase speed of job completion by 10% or more within 9 months of hire.
• ⮚ Within 4 months of hire, create a plan to migrate existing infrastructure to new data center and begin implementation of this plan within 5 months of being hired.
• ⮚ Within 3 months of migrating to the new data center, work with external vendors/consultants to engineer the network to support MPLS.
• ⮚ Within 4 months of hire, engineer a solution to integrate Preseem into the network.
• ⮚ Within 5 months of hire, engineer the network to automatically provision new customers from Sonar.
• ⮚ Within 1 month of provisioning customers from Sonar, work with external vendors/consultants to engineer the network to ensure that these customers' connections will be automatically disabled for non-payment within 10 days of due date.
• ⮚ Research and evaluate potential network monitoring systems, decide on the best fit and integrate it into the network within 6 months of hire.
• ⮚ Evaluate current status of current network layout, health and fitness within 3 months of hire with regards to sufficient throughput, CPU availability/utilization, battery backups and redundancy. Within 4 months of hire identify areas for improvement and design and implement a plan (with specific timelines and budgets) to improve the same.
• ⮚ Within 3 months of hire, develop a plan to seamlessly failover redundant links via OSPF in less than 200 milliseconds.
• ⮚ Within 3 months of hire, map out all access points on the network to determine which sectors need to be converted to horns. Within 4 months of hire, develop and begin implementation of plan to swap out all sectors and horns.
• ⮚ Within 4 months of hire, develop theoretical threshold policies based on timing protocols and equipment limitations for PTMP APs.
• ⮚ Within 4 months of hire, design an automated system that will upgrade the firmware for networking devices once firmware has been approved as stable.
• ⮚ Within 4 months of hire, design an automated system that will automatically backup the configuration of all infrastructure networking devices.
• ⮚ Within 6 months of hire, engineer a solution for business continuity using (a) two XL Broadband Internet connections, and (b) one XL Broadband and one third party connection.
• ⮚ Within 3 months of hire, establish processes for streamlining B2B provisioning and onboarding.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• ⮚ At least 2 years Network Engineering experience at an internet service provider.
• ⮚ Mikrotik experience.
• ⮚ Networking knowledge, layer 2/3, OSPF, BGP.

DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• ⮚ Firewall certification or background.
• ⮚ Fiber optics.
• ⮚ mpls/vpls/vlans.
• ⮚ Installing and running Windows servers, vmware, linux.
• ⮚ DNS/DHCP.
• ⮚ VPN.
• ⮚ Knowledge of running SIP server.
• ⮚ IP Addressing, IPV6.
• ⮚ Winbox.
• ⮚ Ubiquiti Equipment.
• ⮚ The Dude.
• ⮚ AirControl.
• ⮚ Sonar.

WHAT WE OFFER

AT XL BROADBAND, WE LOVE OUR EMPLOYEES. OUR TEAM IS OUR MOST VALUABLE RESOURCE. XL HAS MASSIVE GOALS AND OFFERS UNLIMITED CAREER POTENTIAL.

If you're looking for a company who appreciates their employees and makes sure they always have what they need to be happy and productive, XL Broadband is the place for you. Our employees enjoy:

• ⮚ Competitive base salary.

• ⮚ Highly competitive benefits:

• o Free Life and Disability insurance.

• o Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance options available.

• o Education assistance or tuition reimbursement.

• o Up to $35/mo health (gym, yoga, etc) reimbursement.

• o Up to $30/mo entertainment (Netflix, Hulu) reimbursement.

• ⮚ Paid training.

• ⮚ Unlimited opportunities for promotion.

• ⮚ Other Perks:

• o Employee discounts.

• o Holiday & Vacation pay.

• o Regular team building activities.

• o Fully stocked kitchen and gaming area.