Southern Company is looking for a Fixed Wireless Network Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for the ideation, architecture, engineering, provisioning, and management of their Fixed Wireless infrastructure. This infrastructure is critical for supporting essential business processes across various departments, and it requires high availability, resilience, and security.
Requirements
- Experience in developing mutually beneficial relationships.
- Knowledge of Fixed Wireless network industry trends, vendors, carriers, trade groups, etc.
- Knowledge of network management systems, protocols, troubleshooting and restoration.
- Knowledge of wireless, Ethernet, transport networks, IP routing and Layer 2/3 switching.
- DMVPN configurations or other encryption technologies (FlexVPN)
- Integration with P-LTE infrastructure (Southern Linc)
- Experience in developing mutually beneficial relationships.
Responsibilities
- Ideating, architecting, engineering, provisioning, and managing the Fixed Wireless infrastructure
- Provide timely and effective 2nd and 3rd level support for all infrastructure components
- Establish life-cycle planning and maintenance programs
- Collaborate with suppliers and vendors to drive lifecycle planning, product support, enhancements, and resolution of security vulnerabilities
- Seek opportunities to drive monitoring and automation opportunities that improve device management capabilities while reducing manual processes
- Collaborate with TO team members, business partners and vendors to implement innovative solutions / processes that improve service delivery / support
- Develop and maintain substantial knowledge of how business partners leverage this technology to fulfill their mission
Other
- Attract, hire, develop, and retain a highly effective and diverse workforce of technical individuals
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to ‘Our Values’, provide robust performance management, clear work direction, and continuous learning opportunities for employees.
- Manage the team with emphasis on effective planning, leadership, budgeting, cost management, communication and high-quality service delivery.
- Work with business partners, other TO organizations, and suppliers to develop and refine strategic business plans.
- Demonstrate ownership of the Strategic Plan for Fixed Wireless, define and execute a Fixed Wireless roadmap.
