Engineer III, Interconnect

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🌵 Arizona, California – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote 🏄 California – Remote

💵 $74.5k - $134k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

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Verizon is a major U. S. telecommunications company that provides wireless, broadband, and enterprise network services connecting consumers and businesses. The provided career-site text emphasizes its large, global workforce and focus on roles across technology, retail, finance, and engineering; commitments to employee benefits, learning and development, and corporate responsibility; and a mission to power how people live, work, and play by connecting them to what matters. Verizon operates large-scale consumer-facing services (mobile and home internet) and business/enterprise networking solutions, including advanced technologies like 5G and network infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Provide technical guidance, end-to-end project management, and operational execution for Verizon’s national transport network infrastructure • Manage the lifecycle, capacity expansion, and port utilization of Network-to-Network Interfaces and Access leaf interconnects • Bridge regional RF/transport teams, third-party CLECs/ILECs, and Verizon national core switching centers • Coordinate project teams and keep deployment activities on schedule • Use Fuse project tracking tools to document milestones • Design and order CND and ASRs • Develop corrective action plans for schedule and business-impact risks • Create weekly program content and present recommendations to Director and VP teams • Engineer plans to add, augment, and groom NNI capacity and peering cross-connects • Monitor, audit, and analyze Access leaf port utilization to anticipate exhaust points and initiate expansions • Manage transport projects from routing design through circuit delivery, provisioning, testing, and operational handover • Generate and cut purchase orders, review capital quotes, track expenditures, and hold vendors accountable to milestones and SLAs • Maintain network schematics, routing topologies, cross-connect layouts, and floor/rack elevation drawings • Model and forecast bandwidth demand driven by 5G rollouts, cell densification, and macro-site upgrades • Coordinate and validate Layer 1–Layer 3 acceptance testing, including OTDR trace analysis, optical power levels, RFC 2544, and Y.1564 • Resolve provisioning defects

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or three or more years of work experience • Three or more years of relevant work experience • Expertise in Ethernet Backhaul (EBH) architecture, IP RAN transport, and cell site routing (CSR) • Advanced proficiency with Google Workspace (Sheets, Docs, Slides, Drive) • Proficiency with technical diagramming tools such as Visio, AutoCAD, or equivalent • Minimum of 5 years in telecommunications or cellular wireless engineering focused on Transport, Backhaul, or Interconnect engineering, or military experience (preferred) • Ability to align goals across regional RF engineers, Submarket Transport Leads, Network Assurance, and National Core Operations • Sound technical judgment and ability to prioritize emergency capacity projects under aggressive deadlines • Strong negotiation and escalation skills with transport vendors • Practical proficiency with generative AI tools and large language models such as Google Gemini and Claude • Working knowledge of cellular wireless topologies including 5G NR, LTE, Baseband Units, Open RAN, and packet transport networks • Familiarity with Carrier Interconnection Agreements, carrier tariffs, local access charges, and meet-point architectures • Fiber transport expertise including CWDM/DWDM, dark fiber networks, splice/patch panel mapping, and fiber acceptance criteria • Hands-on experience with Verizon’s proprietary inventory and circuit tracking system • Working knowledge of SevOne, Iris, and proprietary EBH reporting platforms • Experience issuing purchase orders and tracking milestones in 1ERP/SAP or Fuze

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Short- and long-term disability insurance • Basic and supplemental life insurance • AD&D insurance • Identity theft protection • Pet insurance • Group home and auto insurance • Matched 401(k) savings plan • Up to 8 company-paid holidays per year • Up to 6 personal days per year • Paid parental leave • Adoption assistance • Tuition assistance • Premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, and allowances, depending on the role • Up to 15 days of vacation per year for newly hired employees, increasing with additional service • Remote work from home with occasional in-person trainings and meetings

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