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North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Onsite
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.
Join Verizon as we continue to expand our industry-leading network to improve the ways people, businesses, and things connect. As a Senior Engineer, you will provide technical expertise on a critical role involving network transformation, network outages, service issues, network optimization, and maintenance. You will be responsible for providing support to keep things running smoothly and change the way that our customers live, work, and play. We are a 24x7 highly visible Operations environment that performs troubleshooting, configuration changes, drive issues to resolution, and related functions.
Monitoring the network systems and applications to ensure overall system availability and performance.
Complying with company- and industry-wide standard directives to maintain network performance and enhance efficiency.
Providing expert-level optimization, troubleshooting, and maintenance support of network equipment, finding ways to make it even better.
Partnering with all key stakeholders to ensure new features and\or fixes are swiftly rolled out with no negative impact to customers or system performance.
Leveraging automation to eliminate manual processes and providing near real-time visibility into system health and performance.
Physical requirements of the job may include but are not limited to climbing stairs and ladders, working from elevated areas, lifting and carrying objects weighing up to approximately 65 pounds, pushing, pulling, grasping, twisting/bending, and crawling, squatting, or kneeling in small spaces.
You’re tech savvy and well-versed in all things telecommunications. Working independently suits you well. You’re also thorough, vigilant, and on top of the details - someone people count on to solve problems and to make sure they don’t happen in the first place. You are energized by the challenge of working through difficult situations and finding positive outcomes.
You’ll need to have:
Associate’s degree or two or more years of work experience.
Three or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.
Willingness to work rotating shifts including weekends and holidays.
Willingness to travel up to approximately 75% of the time.
Valid driver's license.
Even better if you have one or more of the following:
A technical degree in Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Engineering, Business or a related discipline.
Five or more years or more of experience in telecommunications.
Experience with automation tools.
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve IP network troubles in the physical, data link, and network layers.
Ability to maintain configuration of devices in a network management monitoring system.
Expert-level knowledge of services, network devices, knowledge base solutions, and system monitoring tools.
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.
Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.
Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.
The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.The annual salary range for the location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $96,000.00 - $157,000.00.