Network Implementation Engineer

Job description / Role

About the job
Google is proud to boast a network that provides service to millions of Internet users around the world. The Network Engineering team is responsible for operating that network reliably and at scale. As a member of the team, you have a direct impact on design and feature enhancements to keep our systems running smoothly. You also ensure that network operations are safe and efficient by monitoring network performance, coordinating planned maintenance, adjusting hardware components and responding to network connectivity issues. Google's complex network generates a constant stream of challenges which require you to continually be innovative with an evolving set of technologies. Keeping the network reliable ensures that our users stay connected with our suite of applications, products and services.

As a Network Implementation Engineer, you will support our efforts to execute deployment, maintenance, and operations of private data networks worldwide. In this role, you will build a reliable, cost-effective, and scalable network to support all of our current and future customers and users globally. You will work with Technical Program Managers, Network Engineers, Design and Infrastructure Engineers, Field Engineers within Google, as well as construction and telecommunications vendors and contractors, all to position your team and organization for success.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

- Develop business requirement documentation based on proactive solicitation from internal teams.

- Work with development teams to implement automation requirements.

- Manage and audit network equipment installations using third-party vendors or in-house resources as required.

- Test, troubleshoot, and commission routers, optical transport equipment, and other network devices in new and existing network nodes across Google global networks as required.

- Generate implementation plans and provide technical leadership and guidance during deployment activities.

Requirements

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.

- Experience with fiber types and their application, physical fiber characteristics, and standard testing tools (OSA, BERT, OTDR).

- Experience in telecommunications, particularly at carrier class scale and with optical network infrastructure, transmission systems, layer2/3 routers and data services.

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience working in a data center.

- Experience in DWDM and Routing topology and architecture, with the ability to serve as avr source for other teams.

- Knowledge of OSP, ISP, AC/DC power systems, environmental controls relay rack/cabinet/cage construction.

- Knowledge of basic scripting/programming (e.g., Python/Apps Script/SQL).

- Knowledge of fiber types and their application, physical fiber characteristics, and standard testing tools (e.g., OSA, BERT, OTDR).

- Understanding of networking and fundamentals of network troubleshooting at both Layer 1 and Layer 3.

About the Company

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.