Minimum qualifications:

• Experience with Network infrastructure, Rack and Stack, and device commissioning.
• Experience with planning and leading network deployments.
• Experience planning and coordinating with field operation technicians, engineers, contractors and/or vendors in a telco environment.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience collaborating across multiple levels and functions, and a passion to engage and influence tactical and strategic decision-making.
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

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 Metro Network Deployment Engineer, you will lead our efforts to deploy and maintain private data networks globally. You will work with Network Architects and Engineers, Design Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers, Field Engineers, and Technical Project Managers within Google, as well as construction and telecommunications Vendors and Contractors, all to position the metro for which you are assigned accountable for success. Your team's objective will be to build a reliable, cost-effective and scalable optical transport network to support users globally.

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

• Oversee vendor technicians for rack and stack, and installation of networking equipment.
• Work with neutral colocation providers, Infrastructure, Engineering, and the Google Security team to ensure the health and safety environment for all who perform work on Google's behalf.
• Maintain a solid relationship with our construction contractors and telco vendors to streamline activities.
• Commission, test, and turn-up network devices and optical transport equipment in new and existing network nodes across Google's global network.
• Generate/update documentation and implementation plans while providing technical leadership and guidance during deployment activities, as well as updating and maintaining network data, drawings, rack elevations, and floor-plans.