Job Description
Senior Network Peering & Interconnection Engineer
Max SBR: $72
Plano TX - onsite (interviews will also be conducted onsite in person)
No OT
BGV fully cleared
STD and Client laptops
Note from HM on 2.10: strongly preferred credential: the client is looking for someone with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) certification.
Must Haves:
Routing Hardware Access Tech Transport - please see below after #3
1. Having prior experience in one of the below (refer table) Fiber companies is a must. Client will screen CV only when prior work ex in these companies are provided.
2. It will help to provide at least 2 references from previous employers( with emial phone name and role)
3. Candidate has to work from Cognizant Plano office on 3 days every week
Prior work experience in at least one of the companies in the list is a MUST:
AT&T Fiber/
Verizon Fios/
Bell Canada/
Lumen (Quantum Fiber)/
Frontier Fiber/
Telus/Zayo Group/
Charter (Spectrum)/
Comcast (Xfinity)/
Rogers Communications/
Brightspeed/Altice USA (Optimum)/
Ziply Fiber/
Metronet/
Cox Communications
Routing BGP (specifically eBGP peering) IS-IS Policy-Based Routing
Transport MPLS L3VPN/L2VPN Segment Routing (SR) RSVP-TE EVPN VXLAN
Hardware Juniper MX series Cisco ASR/NCS Nokia (Alcatel) 7750 SR Arista (Service Provider)
Access Tech PON (GPON/XGS-PON) OLT / ONT DOCSIS DWDM (Optical) Broadband Network Gateways (BNG)
Addressing Public IP Space Management (ARIN/RIPE) IPv6 (Dual Stack) CGNAT
Job Description:
Senior Network Peering & Interconnection Engineer
Role Summary
We are looking for a Senior Network Peering & Interconnection Engineer to design operate and evolve a high-performance consumer-scale fiber broadband network. This role owns peering transit and interconnection strategy to ensure low latency high reliability and cost-efficient delivery of internet traffic for millions of users.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and execute regional and national peering strategies
- Manage settlement-free peering paid peering PNIs and transit
- Architect and operate BGP-based peering and backbone routing
- Perform traffic engineering capacity planning and performance optimization
- Lead incident response and troubleshooting across interconnects
- Enforce routing security best practices (RPKI IRR)
- Collaborate with automation NOC legal and procurement teams
Required Qualifications
- CCIE Routing & Switching (preferred) or equivalent
- 8 years ISP or broadband network experience
- Expert BGP IPv4/IPv6 ASN peering and transit knowledge
- Experience with IXPs and private interconnects HANDS-ON at Scripting
- Carrier-grade routing platforms experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Consumer fiber broadband experience
- Anycast or CDN interconnect exposure
- Network automation and telemetry experience Project Code :
Job Tags
Full time, Work experience placement, Work at office, Night shift, 3 days per week