NOC Engineer III, Incident Management Team

Overview

GFiber is an Alphabet company that brings Google Fiber and Google Fiber Webpass internet services to homes and businesses across the United States. Our Incident Management team focuses on resolving outages efficiently, reducing downtime, and improving customer experience.

GFiber’s mission is to deliver abundant internet on networks that are always fast and always open with products that are easy to understand and clearly priced. On our team, you’ll work in an environment that’s redefining the status quo in the Internet industry. On GFiber's Incident Management team, our NOC engineers resolve outages efficiently with their knowledge of network protocols, configurations, and troubleshooting techniques.

As an Incident Manager, you’ll perform ticket administration, event correlation, diagnostics, issue repair, and ensure incidents are prioritized based on business impact and customer satisfaction. As a Single Thread Owner, you will respond to all reported incidents, initiate the proper management process with the appropriate teams, and restore service as quickly as possible. You’ll collaborate with internal stakeholders across shifts and teams, share regular incident metrics reports, post‑mortems, and industry updates.

• Lead the end‑to‑end remediation of all high severity events (critical escalation paths, compliance with on‑call duties, vendor rolodex, augmentation of existing support models from vendors, and post mortem management).
• Initiate and lead war room phone calls with cross‑functional stakeholders, including but not limited to network engineers, system administrators, customer support, and management to drive resolution.
• Delegate tasks, track progress, and hold stakeholders accountable for timely completion of assigned actions.
• Run stakeholder communications and deliver written summaries and reports to executive leadership teams about the incident status, progress, and estimated time to resolution (ETR).
• Assist in the generation of automation, identify, triage, and implement preventive measures to reduce the frequency and severity of incidents and all chronic/repetitive issues.
• Generate post‑mortem/RCA, identify lessons learned, actions, and drive to fruition, and produce regular reports on incident metrics, including response times, resolution rates, and KPIs to track improvements in MTTR.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, telecommunications, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience with network routing protocols, design and troubleshooting, with network equipment providers.
• Experience with network monitoring, ticketing systems, triaging escalation tools, and troubleshooting tools.
• Experience with TCP/IP networking concepts, including BGP and OSPF routing protocols, switching, and DHCP.
• Ability to work non‑standard working hours including nights, weekends, holidays, and differing work rotations/shifts.

• Experience in incident management, including leading war room calls, driving communication with stakeholders, preparing executive summaries, and providing timely updates and estimated time to resolution (ETR) during network outages or critical incidents.
• Technical certifications such as Nokia (ONC or NRS), Ciena (CE‑A or CE‑P), MEF CECP, Juniper (JNCIA or JNCIP), FOT, FTAA, DCI, WNT or MRT.
• Experience in Radio Engineering incident management and switched network implementations.
• OSS Functionality (Fault Management and ticket administration).
• Understanding of CWDM/DWDM theory (C‑band, L‑band, wavelengths), linear and ring topologies, network hierarchy, optical and routed networks, and ITIL knowledge.
• Experience with the following equipment: CWDM/DWDM;
  Ciena Waveserver;
  Juniper MX/QFX/PTX, Nokia 7x50, Adtran/Nokia PON/OLT/ONT.

The U.S. base salary for this full‑time position is between $134,000 and $152,000 plus bonus and benefits.