Telecommunications Engineer

Telecommunications Engineer 

The Telecommunications Engineer provides technical support and coordination for successful designing, planning and implementation and ongoing operational support of District's telecommunication infrastructure in full compliance with NRC, FERC/NERC, PCI, FCC and other regulatory entities. The Telecommunications Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining enterprise scale operational networks and the monitoring of network performance.  This position provides technical support, implementation services and ensures optimal performance for front-end devices, SONET and MPLS fiber transport and microwave radio transport and other components comprising OPPD's Enterprise Operational Technology infrastructure

Solution Design and Engineering: Collaborate with stakeholders to analyze current state environments, identify solutions to existing issues and/or design new technology solution  Assignments would typically require anywhere from 3-6 months of independent discretion.

• Identifies, develops and/or recommends design principles, frameworks, models, standards, and processes based on industry best practices and solution requirements
• Implement telecommunication system designs, traffic engineering and equipment baseline configurations based on best practices both internal and external to OPPD. 
• Identify technology solutions and design for telecommunication technologies such as fiber and microwave radio based SONET and MPLS transport systems
• Analyze technical needs, requirements, and state of the operational network's infrastructure design, integration, and operations which include procurement activities, engineering analysis and quality evaluations and consideration of outsourcing or vended solutions
• Perform field work activity and quality reviews 

Project Delivery: Participate as a SME and/or lead assigned projects/work efforts to deliver life cycle management programs, enhancements to existing systems or implementation of entirely new technology solutions.

• Lead work effort initiatives as assigned by Manager which include the creation of work breakdown structures, schedules, resource estimations, implementation plans and the coordination of personnel during execution. 

Systems Administration: Monitor, analyze performance and maintain the functionality and effectiveness of assigned systems, applications, programs and infrastructure. The scope includes TDM SONET and MPLS transport equipment, enterprise monitoring tools and other components comprising the enterprise operational networks.

• Provide technical support of the installed operational network infrastructure and also coordination of resources for the delivery of data
• Recommend and implement lifecycle management programs of systems
• Identify preventative maintenance schedules, create appropriate procedures and oversee activities per defined schedules.
• Ensure configuration standards, templates and normal operational system parameters are implemented
• Create procedures and defined processes to facilitate the execution of daily work tasks
• Create and maintain system-level documentation and reference architecture of systems 

Operations Support: Fulfil system requests, execute change management activities and respond to system incidents within established service level agreements. 

• Ensure Business Partner requests are being completed and incidents are being resolved within established target completion dates and with high quality
• Ensure systems are running efficiently and optimally.  Set system appropriate performance thresholds to monitor and alert on aberrant conditions. 
• Coordinate and communicate planned maintenance activities with Technology teams and District Business Partners
• Provide 24x7 rotational on-call support