Senior Network Engineer

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Dominion Energy is committed to providing reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean energy that powers our customers every day. If you want to work for a purpose-driven company that values safety and collaboration, we’re looking for you. You won’t just find a job here; you’ll find your career.

We offer a hybrid work schedule (one week in the office, one week of teleworking) to accommodate the need for flexibility.

Military service members and veterans with ranks from E5-E9, W1-CW5, or O3-O6, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience as outlined below will be considered for this opportunity. At this time, Dominion Energy cannot transfer or sponsor a work visa or employment authorization for this position. This position does not offer relocation assistance.

Dominion Energy is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to support telecommunications transport systems and the tools used to monitor, manage, maintain, and restore critical infrastructure services. This role supports high-availability telecommunications environments, including DWDM, MPLS, microwave, optical transport, routing, switching, and related monitoring, inventory, automation, and recovery platforms. The role helps maintain reliable communications services that support critical utility operations. This role mentors team members, provides guidance, and promotes team development.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced operational support for telecommunications transport systems and associated management platforms.
• Support production system health, planned maintenance, service restoration, software patching, firmware upgrades, lifecycle activities, turn-ups, decommissions, and recovery readiness.
• Troubleshoot complex service issues, support escalations, follow established standards and procedures, and help improve monitoring accuracy, documentation, backup validation, and operational reporting.
• Provide mentorship and operational guidance to less-experienced team members by sharing knowledge, reinforcing standard procedures, and helping build the skills needed to support the environment effectively.

Candidates for this role may be located in the Richmond, VA, or Cayce, SC area.

The knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences that are required for entry into this job include the following:

• 5 + years of experience preferably of one or more years of telecommunications, network operations, infrastructure operations, or transport network support experience.
• Experience in telecommunications operations, transport network support, infrastructure operations, network operations, or a related technical field.
• Experience supporting transport network technologies such as MPLS, DWDM, optical transport, microwave, routing, switching, Layer 2 / Layer 3 services, or other high-availability network services.
• Experience supporting network monitoring, management, automation, service management, or inventory platforms such as Nokia NSP / NFM-P / NFM-T, Solar Winds, Circuit Vision, Service Now, or similar tools.
• Strong troubleshooting, incident response, change management, documentation, communication, vendor coordination, cross-functional support, mentorship, and knowledge-transfer skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a critical infrastructure environment, support planned maintenance activities, and follow operational procedures.
• Ability to work as team member and lead/coordinate activities across technical teams, business partners, vendors, and operational support groups, with a focus on ownership, sound judgment, clear communication, and service reliability.

• Experience with utility telecommunications networks, transport operations, and legacy TDM services and equipment.
• Experience with telecommunications management and monitoring platforms such as Nokia NSP / NFM, Ciena MCP, SEL EMS, SEL ICON, Solar Winds, Circuit Vision, Service Now, or similar tools.
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux or similar Linux distributions, command-line troubleshooting, system patching, vulnerability remediation, log review, and backup…