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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.\nWhat you’ll be doing...\nThe 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.\nThe 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).\nCoordinating a wide variety of project teams focused on different aspects of the network deployment and keeping them on task to meet deadlines.\nUtilizing Fuse project tracking tools and systems to accurately document milestones and keep them on track.\nProficient in CND design and ASR ordering\nDeveloping and implementing corrective action plans to mitigate impact to project schedules and overall business objectives.\nCreating weekly program content and giving presentations that helps to drive decision making for our Director and VP teams.\nDevelop and execute technical engineering plans to add, augment, and groom NNI capacity and peering cross-connects nationally.\nActively monitor, audit, and analyze Access leaf port utilization across switching centers and hubs to anticipate exhaust points and initiate port-expansion orders.\nCreate and manage end-to-end transport projects from preliminary routing design through circuit delivery, provisioning, testing, and operational handover.\nGenerate 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).\nMaintain, design, and update network schematics, low-level routing topologies, interconnect cross-connect layouts, and floor/rack elevation drawings.\nModel and forecast bandwidth demands across Verizon’s backhaul networks driven by 5G Ultra Wideband rollouts, cell densification, and macro-site upgrades.\nCoordinate 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.\n What we’re looking for...\nYou’ll need to have:\nBachelor’s degree or three or more years of work experience.\nThree or more years or relevant work experience.\nExpertise in Ethernet Backhaul (EBH) architecture, IP RAN transport, and cell site routing (CSR). \nAdvanced proficiency with Google Workspace (Sheets, Docs, Slides, Drive) and technical diagramming tools (Visio, AutoCAD, or equivalent).\nEven better if you have one or more of the following:\nMinimum of 5 years in telecommunications or cellular wireless engineering with direct focus on Transport, Backhaul, or Interconnect engineering. And/or military experience.\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science, or equivalent practical industry experience.\nAbility to align goals across regional RF engineers, Submarket Transport Leads, Network Assurance, and National Core Operations without escalation friction.\nProven record of making sound technical judgments and prioritizing emergency capacity projects under aggressive target deadlines.\nStrong negotiation and escalation skills when driving transport vendors (e.g., Crown Castle, Zayo, Lumen, SCE, local telcos) to meet committed delivery dates.\nPractical proficiency leveraging modern generative AI tools and large language models (such as Google Gemini, and Claude) synthesize transport utilization data, draft and review technical engineering documentation, automate routine reporting, and accelerate root-cause troubleshooting.\nWorking knowledge of cellular wireless topologies (5G NR, LTE, Baseband Units, Open RAN, and packet transport networks). Familiarity with carrier Interconnection Agreements (ICA), carrier tariffs, local access charges, and meet-point architectures. \nFiber transport expertise: CWDM/DWDM, dark fiber networks, splice/patch panel mapping, and fiber acceptance criteria.\nHands-on experience working with Verizon’s proprietary inventory and circuit tracking system. \nWorking knowledge of SevOne, Iris, and proprietary EBH reporting platforms to track port traffic and latency. \nExperience issuing POs and tracking milestones in platforms like 1ERP/SAP or Fuze.\nIf 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.\nWhere you’ll be working\nIn this remote role, you'll work from home with occasional in-person trainings and meetings.Scheduled Weekly Hours\n40Equal Employment Opportunity \nVerizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.\nBenefits and Compensation\nOur 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.\nThe 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. 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