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Network Planning Engineer - Transport Planner
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Every day we strive to provide the best possible experience to our users that are now numbered in billions, and to make that possible, we have deployed an ultra-high capacity backbone network that spans the Globe. We are looking for a Transport Planner to join our Backbone team to support the expansion of our global network. This is an ideal role for a Network Planner that wants to work on a purpose built and ever-expanding network that touches and changes the lives of billions for the better every day.
Network Planning Engineer - Transport Planner Responsibilities
- Analyze traffic capacity projections and develop an optical transport network capacity plan accordingly
- Partner with Software Engineering & Product Engineering teams to develop capacity planning models and optimization simulations for network infrastructure
- Partner with Network Engineering teams to establish new design standards and build them into production
- Follow the developments of IP or Optical technology roadmaps and capabilities
- Network design, accounting for technological capabilities and network routing, to ensure scaling requirements and resiliency for the network are met
- Model ad-hoc, what-if scenarios, including greenfield and brownfield demand and supply scenarios to set strategy
- Investigate collections of network failure and routing behaviors, and create simulation tests to improve network efficiency and network reliability metrics
- Oversee fiber topology evolution of the backbone to achieve resiliency, and latency requirements
- Work with engineering, finance, and sourcing to support backbone fiber acquisitions strategies
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in transport network planning in high capacity, mission critical environment
- Experience with designing IP, Optical, or Fiber networks and knowledge of current technology
- Knowledge of network topology and experience in building resiliency design
- 2+ years of experience with network modeling tools such as NPS, One Planner, OPNET, Cariden, WAE, Aria, WANDL or other in-house tool
- 2+ years of coding experience in Python or another programming language (e.g. PHP, C++, or Java)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with both terrestrial and submarine networks
- Production transport network design experience
- Experience with optical link design, wavelength assignment, and coherent modulation schemes
- Experience modeling and analyzing a business case for network expansion or fiber acquisition
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$143,000/year to $208,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base salary, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.
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