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You will work with Technical Program Managers, Network Engineers, Design and Infrastructure Engineers, Field Engineers within Google, as well as construction and telecommunications vendors and contractors, all to position your team and organization for success.\nYou will facilitate faster, better, and more efficient, positive outcomes for the business and our customers. Your objective will be to build the world’s most reliable, cost-effective and scalable network to support all of our current and future customers and users globally.\nThis team is responsible for the system level design and deployment of the global fiber optic network that connects Google's data centers to the world. This network allows Google to function as a global computer, ensuring continuous flow of data to and from all corners of the planet. The Network Deployment team operates Google's global network reliably and at scale.\nAs a Network Implementation Engineer, you will design, deploy, and maintain this massive private data network. Working with Architects, Capacity Management, Project Managers, and Engineers, you will gather requirements, manage integration plans, and create physical and logical designs. Your responsibilities span the network lifecycle-from installation and commissioning to troubleshooting and decommissioning-using site surveys and audits to ensure strict specification compliance. Utilizing your experience in networking, data centers, and co-location, you will refine best practices to build a reliable, cost-effective, and scalable network supporting Google's global users.\nGoogle's network provides services to millions of Internet users around the world. Our metros are on the edge of our network where Google connects to its users. The Network Team is responsible for operating that network reliably and at scale. Our team owns the full life cycle of all space, power, and network assets in all of Google’s data centers and metro points of presence globally. From the foundation, we are involved from site acquisition to construction and are accountable for what space and power is delivered. 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