Telecom Engineer

Description:

JOB SUMMARY:

This position is responsible for regional, plus system level, design and support of Southern Company’s optical telecommunications systems and infrastructure. The position will have a heavy emphasis on design and support of the company’s outside plant fiber network and DWDM systems. Additionally, the position will provide 3rd level support for other optical telecommunications system, such as our SEL ICON, and Nokia SARs. This position is expected to design, manage projects, assignments, maintenance, and requests with minimal oversight and to effectively interface with multiple cross-functional parties on a frequent basis. i.e.: IOC, Telecom Aggregate Services, Telecom Edge Services, Field Operations, as well as Power Delivery and external parties (vendors and partners).

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

•Understand/achieve business, TO, and departmental goals, strategies, and plans.

•Ensure full compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley rules and regulations.

•In-depth knowledge of OSP fiber and DWDM preferred; alternatively, OSP Fiber or DWDM, plus one or more of the following telecommunications transport technologies: Nokia SARs or other similar Data Networking routers, SEL ICONs, other legacy telecom equipment.

•Solid technical understanding of telecom networks, data networks, voice networks, and other major applications that use Southern Company’s transport network.

•Ability to analyze information from multiple sources for complex problem resolution.

•Ability to lead a team, coordinating various workgroups to drive complex problem resolution in a timely and efficient manner.

•Ability to design / engineer network modifications / additions

•Ability to organize tasks and coordinate various employees, vendor / contractors, and customers / partners to meet project goals

•Ability to work independently, prioritizing major tasks by overall impact to the company

•Ability to arrive at cost effective solutions in support of outages and projects

•Ability to communicate and work with all levels of management, vendors, and other internal and external groups and customers

•Ability to effectively lead meetings, train personnel, and make presentations

•Ability to effectively utilize standard Company computing applications (i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.)

•Ability to appropriately utilize documentation tools as required by specific job (CAD, TBMS, Visio, etc.)

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.