Welcome to Broadstaff! We are one of the industry's most trusted staffing partners for all things Telecom - Wireless Infrastructure. With over 30 years of combined experience in Telecom, Energy and Technology, our team remains devoted to helping companies find great people and helping people find great jobs. Job Description: As a member of the Systems and Maintenance Engineering (S&ME) Intelligent Edge Network Lab Governance Team, you'll be responsible for creating and executing support strategies for S&ME Lab resources. Primary responsibilities will include: • Implement lab test bed setup based on requirements from IT, Planning, and Maintenance Engineering teams • Insuring lab test bed setup is complete prior to test or development efforts • Scheduling and managing availability of lab resources • Support and triage for test bed issues, including vendor engagement/escalation • Maintenance of lab resources to insure production-like availability • Management of test bed inventories • Hands-on equipment support (equipment installation, fiber maintenance, card add/pulls) What we're looking for You will have knowledge and skills creating, managing, and troubleshooting optical transport layer 1-3 networks and willingness to collaborate across multiple teams in order to create and maintain a robust environment to support the dynamic demands of test and development efforts supporting Verizon's next-gen networks. You'll need to have: • Experience with SONET/DWDM/ROADM/OTN/MPLS/Pseudowire and other transport methods • Demonstrated experience troubleshooting/resolving network issues across Layer 1- 3 transport platforms • Technical knowledge of IP core and transport networks and associated encapsulation and protocols such as BGP, OSPF, L2 Tunneling, pseudowire, IS-IS, BFD • Knowledge of Telecommunications/Service Provider architecture and design • Excellent collaboration skills and strong written and verbal communication skills • Experience with best practices for equipment install, activation, turn-up, and network integration Even better if you have: • Carrier Ethernet / MEF Certifications • Experience working with Cisco or Ciena optical transport systems (eg. photonic switches, Cisco NCS platforms, Ciena 6500 platforms, etc) • Experience with lab operational procedures/practices • Scripting experience (Python, Perl, Javascript, Shell, etc) Broadstaff, LLC., provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected classification protected by federal, state or local laws.