Engineer III, Interconnect

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What you’ll be doing…

The Engineer III Spec-Interconnect provides technical guidance, end-to-end project management, and operational execution for Verizon’s national transport network infrastructure. This role focuses on the lifecycle management, capacity expansion, and port utilization of Network-to-Network Interfaces (NNI) and Access leaf interconnects across the national footprint.
The position serves as the critical bridge between regional RF/transport teams, third-party competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs)/incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs), and Verizon’s national core switching centers to ensure robust, low-latency Ethernet Backhaul (EBH).

• Coordinating a wide variety of project teams focused on different aspects of the network deployment and keeping them on task to meet deadlines.
• Utilizing Fuse project tracking tools and systems to accurately document milestones and keep them on track.
• Proficient in CND design and ASR ordering
• Developing and implementing corrective action plans to mitigate impact to project schedules and overall business objectives.
• Creating weekly program content and giving presentations that helps to drive decision making for our Director and VP teams.
• Develop and execute technical engineering plans to add, augment, and groom NNI capacity and peering cross-connects nationally.
• Actively monitor, audit, and analyze Access leaf port utilization across switching centers and hubs to anticipate exhaust points and initiate port-expansion orders.
• Create and manage end-to-end transport projects from preliminary routing design through circuit delivery, provisioning, testing, and operational handover.
• Generate and cut purchase orders (POs), review capital quotes against contract rates, track project expenditures, and hold third-party fiber and backhaul vendors accountable to project milestones and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Maintain, design, and update network schematics, low-level routing topologies, interconnect cross-connect layouts, and floor/rack elevation drawings.
• Model and forecast bandwidth demands across Verizon’s backhaul networks driven by 5G Ultra Wideband rollouts, cell densification, and macro-site upgrades.
• Coordinate and validate Layer 1 through Layer 3 acceptance testing (including dark fiber OTDR trace analysis, optical power levels, RFC 2544, and Y.1564 standards) and resolve provisioning defects.

What we’re looking for…

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or three or more years of work experience.
• Three or more years or relevant work experience.
• Expertise in Ethernet Backhaul (EBH) architecture, IP RAN transport, and cell site routing (CSR).
• Advanced proficiency with Google Workspace (Sheets, Docs, Slides, Drive) and technical diagramming tools (Visio, AutoCAD, or equivalent).

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Minimum of 5 years in telecommunications or cellular wireless engineering with direct focus on Transport, Backhaul, or Interconnect engineering. And/or military experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science, or equivalent practical industry experience.
• Ab…