Sr. Communication Engineer - Data Center Location

Merge IT•Anaheim, CA

17h•Onsite

About The Position

Our enterprise-level client is seeking to add a Senior Communications Engineer to work onsite in a datacenter location in Anaheim, CA. This is a 3-6+ month contract role with the potential to go permanent and extendable based on good performance. A background check and drug test are required. The candidate must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, complex, and challenging environment, be ready to work creatively within customer standards, and be comfortable with occasional night and weekend work. The role involves acting as the lead Senior Communications Engineer for various projects, from small to large scale, supporting standard office requirements to resort expansion and new builds. The candidate will be responsible for the success of regional network services, including researching, configuring, and recommending new technologies, developing scope-of-work requirements, and ensuring designs adhere to strategy, standards, and security policies. This role requires a strong technical acumen for corporate network technology infrastructures, the ability to mentor peers, manage multiple deliverables, and effectively communicate technical issues and remediation plans to leadership.

Requirements

BS degree in Engineering or Information Technology or equivalent
3-5 years experience in design and network support functions
Ability to handle and prioritize multiple projects and successfully completes in a timely manner.
Prioritization & time management skills required to manage various projects & tasks concurrently & efficiently.
Strong communication and relationship skills, with emphasis in the ability to articulate advanced technical topics to both technical and non-technical staff; ability to articulate business issues/concerns with staff, peers, leadership, and outside parties.
Ability to read and understand construction documents, especially electrical and low voltage
MS Office and MS Visio proficiency
Must be a strong independent contributor who is a team player capable of mentoring and helping their peers to becoming strong technical peers.
Must be able to manage multiple deliverables simultaneously.
Must have a strong technical acumen for corporate network technology infrastructures and have the ability to discuss and teach technologies at a technical level amongst their peers.
Ability to effectively communicate issues, remediation plans and status on major initiatives to higher levels of leadership
Ability to direct and interact during major outages and/or initiatives
Ability to utilize Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook)
Ability to work evenings and weekends as required

Nice To Haves

BICSI - RCDD - A Registered Communications Distribution Designer (RCDD ®) is an individual who has demonstrated knowledge in the design, integration and implementation of telecommunications and data communications technology systems and related infrastructures.
enjoy a fast-paced environment and be ready to work creatively yet within our customer standards.
Specialized depth and breadth of expertise
Interprets business strategies, opportunities and trends
Recommends best practices
Solves complex problems
Provides innovative solutions
Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations
Lead functional teams or projects

Responsibilities

Acts as lead Senior Communications Engineer for small-to-large scale projects for the client.
Responsible for the success of regional network services.
Delivers business unit-related projects, including researching, configuration, and recommending new technologies in association with the project request and developing scope-of-work requirements for the project development and bid.
Creates and/or reviews design for adherence to BNDS strategy, standards and security policy.
Develops project physical layer design documents and BOMs.
Performs site audits and assessments needed to develop design documents and plans.
Produces Telecom Room layouts, rack elevation plans, optical riser backbone drawings, labeling schemes, detailed materials BOMs, Division 27 documents, cutover plans, runlists and any other documents required to define project design.
Designs horizontal cabling systems & supporting components, optical riser backbone systems, OSP optical campus backbones & pathways, cable pathways, cable tray conveyance systems, conduits, pull-boxes, outlets, workstation feeds-devices, floor termination devices, etc.
Programs and designs Telecom Rooms including overall room layouts, power, HVAC, grounding, racks, runways, HCM, VCM, etc.
Determines labor costs as well as equipment and wiring costs for each project and manages the project expenses to the estimates, identifies new and improved methods that can be used to satisfy infrastructure requirements, and provides technical material needed for the documentation of each new infrastructure project.
Tracks timeline and financial forecast against stated objectives, and ensures proper transition to operations with required KPIs, design documentation.
Utilizes creativity and initiative in exploring alternative means of completing assignments.
Closely collaborates with the network delivery services department in defining and documenting services and associated service levels to ensure a consistent delivery model for network services in the local region including required training to support new technologies.
Implement technical aspects of the network facilities strategy, architecture, design, and documenting/communicating roadmaps and standards as well as participates in all physical network infrastructure (cabling, cabinets, HVAC, GPON, UPS, etc.) related matters and technology.
Demonstrate technical acumen, business acumen, strong communication skills, and professional maturity in representing the department in business discussions.
Demonstrates proficiency in designing network environments and working with groups of teams towards a common objective.
Conducts capacity planning surveys to ensure technical and operational models meet overall building and business requirements.
Demonstrates a thorough understanding of facility requirements for Telecommunications Rooms build-out, including but not limited to, power, HVAC, PDUs, and Grounding and Bonding.
Researches technologies and products and meets with vendor, addresses technical issues/deficiencies and influence new products and services to meet growing and changing requirements.
Night and weekend work will be required from time to time as required in support of project requirements.