Network Architect - Planning

Network Architect – Planning

Segra is searching for a qualified and experienced Network Architect – Planning to join us in a full-time capacity.

The work arrangement for this role is a hybrid position, requiring a minimum of three (3) days in the office, with flexibility to work remotely two (2) days each week.

Role Overview

The Network Architect - Planning will perform strategic planning and engineering tasks of considerable technical difficulty that includes analyzing, designing, planning, developing, budgeting, or modifying network equipment and facilities for specific markets/regions. This position will offer consulting and technical guidance to lower level and peer engineering staff including OSP Planners, Network Planners, and Network Engineers. This position will work with Program Management to answer questions and to assure that projects initiated from the Planning group are properly implemented. This position will perform cost studies, build estimates/analysis, project packages, and review jobs for accuracy and content.

Other responsibilities include:

• Supporting product development initiatives.
• Fiber asset evaluation.
• Review and recommendations for vendor network equipment.
• Network expansion planning.
• Help to recommend and document company/department procedures, policies, and practices.
• Meet company and department goals and objectives.
• Consult with Enterprise/Carrier sales teams and Engineers regarding current, future and past opportunities.
• Participate in cost reduction planning.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in a technical field and/or equivalent work experience.

Experience:

• Minimum 6 years of experience in either network engineering/planning or operations for fiber-based telecommunication carrier.
• Knowledge of telecommunications industry practices and standards, activities of OSP, network engineering, and technical facility design principles.
• Must have prior experience with Good working knowledge of SONET, DWDM, ROADM, Carrier Ethernet, Switching and Routing and support systems.
• Must be able to analyze existing networks to provide effective and cost-effective solutions for network growth, complicated customer opportunities.
• Must be able to provide creative, standards-based solutions for network expansion.
• Experience with Microsoft Visio, Word and Excel as well as mapping software such as Google Earth.
• Knowledge of telecommunications industry practices and standards, activities of OSP, network engineering, and technical facility design principles.
• Experience working with equipment and services vendors; IE Ciena, GDT, Cisco, Nokia.
• Knowledge of Layer 1 and Layer 2 Technologies. Must understand Layer 3 technologies.

Key Competencies: Must have skill in defining, evaluating, solving and presenting alternatives to complex engineering problems.

About Segra

Segra owns and operates a wide and dense fiber-optic infrastructure footprint that provides state-of-the-art connectivity, cybersecurity, voice, cloud and colocation solutions, all backed by industry leading service and reliability. Serving over 20,000 connected customer locations, Segra has been providing customer focused solutions for over 125 years.

At Segra, we imagine, we engineer and we build a world of opportunities for our customers through fiber-enabled technologies, driven by our customer-first mentality. We invest in the communities we serve by hiring locally, empowering our teams, and continually upgrading our network infrastructure to deliver smarter, stronger technology solutions.

Benefits Overview

Segra offers a very robust benefits package to our full-time employees, some of which include:

• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k) match
• Flexible Spending/Health Savings Accounts
• Tuition and gym reimbursements
• Vacation/PTO, paid holidays, floating holidays
• Volunteer days, parental leave
• Legal, accidental, hospital indemnity, identify theft, pet insurance

Our Commitment to Equality:

Segra is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination of any kind. Segra does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

Salary Range: $100,065 - $135,000

Beyond competitive health and retirement benefits with immediate 401(k) vesting, Segra also invests in your total well-being through programs supporting physical, mental, financial, and social wellness.