Grooms Tech (Central Office)

Summary:

We are looking for a Grooms Tech who will be primarily responsible for performing Remote Logical Grooms of Transport Circuits from old to new paths. 

This is a long term and a fully remote position.

Responsibilities:

Pre-configure new circuit ports and logical cross-connections.

• Pretest new logical circuit paths.
• Resolve design discrepancies with the Planner.
• Perform Remote Logical Grooms of Transport circuits from old to new paths – comprehensive experience with a wide variety of network equipment required.
• Validate grooms are successful with no outstanding alarms – [this is where the rubber meets the road].
• De-provision old circuit path and ports.
• Location remote anywhere, though strong preference Tulsa given most customer points of contact will be at the Lumen/Level 3 Tulsa office

Requirements:

• Five years or more of telecommunications experience with 3/1/0 cross-connect systems, various telecom network elements, Central Office practices, network/circuit engineering, circuit provisioning, wiring standards, TL1, and circuit troubleshooting. 
• Excellent troubleshooting skills are necessary.
• Working experience with Lumen and Verizon is preferred.
• Working knowledge of DWDM, IP grooms, and provisioning.
• Experience in working remote logical grooms of transport circuits.

Technologies & Equipment:

• DCS – Lumen 5500, 532L, NGX, Alcatel Lucent 1630, 1631, 1633, DACS II, DACS IV, ECS1, CS1L, TDAX, TURIN Access Navigator
• SONET Transport – Alcatel Lucent DMX, Lambda Unite, FT2000, DDM, 1680, 1603, Cisco 15454, 15600, 15310, Ciena 5410, 5430 Core Director, Nortel S/DMS OC48, OC192, NTDX, NEC 2400, Hitachi 4100, 5192, Fujitsu 4500, 2400, 150, 600, Adtran MX280. 
• Metro/ Long Haul DWDM – Tellabs 7100, Adva (FSP3000-RE7), Infinera (DTN), Alcatel (1830), Lucent (WES, OLS 400G, 800G), Ciena (4200, K2), Cisco (15800), Ekinops (C200, C600), Hitachi (AMN 6100), Huawei (OSN3600), NEC (Spectral Wave 16), Nortel (LH 1600/DT), Movaz (Ray Express)
• IP (Routers & Switches) - Tellabs 88xx, Cisco (ASRs (9001, 9010, 920-24SZ, 4SZ), ME3600, ME3400, 1924, 2811, 2911, 2960, 3550, 3750, 4506, 5300, 5505, 5509, 6503, 6506, 6509, 7206, 7206, 7507, 7609, 10008, 12410, 12416, 4900M), Juniper (M40, M120, M160, M320, MX240, MX480, MX960, T640, 5100, 4300, EX Series, QFX Series), Foundry: Networks Bigiron 4000 Ethernet Switch, Fastiron X-Series Switch, SuperX Switch, MLX-32, NETIRON XMR 16000, Alcatel (7710 , 7750, OS6850, PE300), Overture (5008-930, 5122-930, 5260-930, 5262-930, 5410-015, ISG 140, ISG 180, ISG 2200, ISG 5000, ISG 5100, 1400)

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