Graduate Network Engineer - Ultra Long Haul Center Engineering

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you’ll be doing...

Verizon is in the process of modernising our core networks to enable new, ground-breaking products and technologies. As a Graduate Center Engineer, you will join our Ultra Long Haul team to help drive various network build initiatives. This is a fantastic opportunity to launch your career, where you will be supported in learning the lifecycle of network engineering. You will work alongside experienced professionals to help manage projects, coordinate with vendors, and resolve technical challenges as they arise.

• Engineering details will include but not be limited to project-specific installation instructions, engineering database (ICON, CCP) updates, equipment configurations, card/port assignments/requirements, power mapping, cable running lists, floor space and rack placement, and a detailed Bill of Materials (BOM).

• Creating required Shopping Carts or Telephone Equipment Orders (TEOs) to drive the purchase of required equipment and services.

• Creating Project Supplements as required for appropriate financial budget management of build initiatives.

• Coordinating and driving engineering issues to resolution.

• Managing multiple Capacity Creation Requests for new hardware deployments, reconfigurations, decommissions, and First Office Application (FOA) projects.

• Negotiating and coordinating overall project schedules for engineering activities, construction start and completion dates.

• Identifying, monitoring, reporting, escalating, and resolving technical issues encountered throughout the build process.

• Maintaining excellent communication with the Project Manager, Functional Team Members, and Direct Management to ensure early identification of issues and timely reporting of status.

• Interfacing with Operations and other Implementation organisations in performing site surveys to obtain critical site-specific pre-engineering data prior to the build, as well as post-installation redlines and end-of-job audits.

• Negotiating, coordinating, and driving/tracking completion of project milestones with all appropriate stakeholders, to include third-party turf vendors.

• Facilitating and maintaining relationships with multiple service vendors, including pricing compliance, standards creation and compliance, and conducting quality reviews – to include follow-up remediation as appropriate and periodic performance reviews.

What we’re looking for...
You are self-driven with experience in the design and implementation of complex and distributed systems. You have a passion for seeking engineering excellence and adopting new technologies. You are not afraid to drive for success by working with multi-functional teams.

You’ll need to have:

• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications or equivalent).

• The ability to work well with others (as a team) and individually (on your own projects) with a positive attitude.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Demonstrable excellent problem-solving skills.

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

• Knowledge of technical domains such as: SONET, DWDM, Long Haul Transport Systems, Backbone Routing/Switching, Physical Server Deployments, or Voice Switching platforms.

• Familiarity with telecommunications equipment or network installations.

• Proficiency in utilising AI tools to streamline technical research, documentation, and problem-solving.
   

Why Verizon?
Verizon is committed to maintaining a Total Rewards package which is competitive, valued by our employees, and differentiates us as an Employer of Choice.

• We are a ‘pay for performance’ company and your contribution is rewarded through competitive salaries and performance-based incentives. We create an opportunity for us all to share in the success of Verizon and the value we help to create through this broad-based discretionary equity award programme.

• Your benefits are market competitive and delivered by some of the best providers.

• You are provided with a full spectrum of health and wellbeing resources, including a first-in-class Employee Assistance Programme, to empower you to make positive health decisions.

• We offer generous paid time off benefits to help you manage your work-life balance and opportunities for flexible working arrangements*.

• Verizon provides training and development for all levels, to help you enhance your skills and develop your career, from funding towards education assistance, award-winning training, online development tools, and access to industry research.

• You will be able to take part in volunteering opportunities as part of our environmental, community, and sustainability commitment.

Benefit packages are tailored to the specific country where a position is based.
If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

37.5

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.