Technical Support Engineer, Secure Federal Operations
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The T-Mobile Secure Federal Operations (TSFO) Technical Support Engineer supports end-to-end production network and solutions design review, validation, testing and operations acceptance for all new or expansion nodes/platforms or services being introduced into TSFO Voice, Data, Messaging and Mobile Internet wireless networks. Performs diagnostic investigation into sophisticated customer-impacting network issues to resolve and identify root causes. Provide technical leadership, guidance and advice to other engineers who are diagnosing, troubleshooting, testing and operating the network. Evaluate and report on design, reliability and maintenance problems to the relevant TSFO design or vendor organizations and provide design recommendations to improve the overall customer experience and to drive long-term service improvements. Position serves as primary interface between TSFO and its Vendors for technical escalation and problem management of the production network issues and to provide technical solutions for the system and end-users. Works on technical assignments that are semi routine in nature but recognizes that need for occasional deviation from accepted practice. Normally follows established procedures on routine work, requires instructions only on new assignments.This is a hybrid position required to be working in-office at least 3 days a week.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Resolves technical issues that cannot be resolved through normal operations and maintenance procedures and provide leadership on outage calls in order to drive issue resolution and limit impact to the customer. Ensures compliance to TSFO outage reporting process and collaborate with engineering, product development and the vendor technical organizations when required in order to drive long-term product improvements. This role requires that the engineer participate in an "on call rotation" on an as needed basis to ensure that expert level support is available on a 24x7 basis.
Provides technical mentorship to junior Tier2 Engineers during resolution of customer issues to develop the technical troubleshooting and leadership skills throughout the Tier2 organization. Ensures that performance goals are maintained across the team. Approves technical bulletins written by junior members of the Tier2 organization.
Supports the development and delivery of training programs and supports documentation to other departments on new operation, maintenance and troubleshooting procedures. Produces technical bulletins in order to provide short term work-around solutions and guidance on current Network issues. This requires some "out of box" thinking and analysis of software problems within the network. Provides mentoring to others within the position’s team or customers’ team.
Provides guidance to Engineering and Vendor teams with the validation and deployment of new products and services to ensure trouble free network changes. This position will provide expert on-site and remote support during major software upgrades as well as validate and implement parameter changes within the network. This includes exercising discretion in regard to potential fallback scenarios should network changes cause customer impact.
Also responsible for other Duties/Projects as assigned by business management as needed.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Communication
Wireless Networking
Wireless Mobility
Problem Solving
Analytics
Customer Service
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Operations or related field preferred
2-4 years of Engineering or Operations experience within the telecommunications industry.
Government Contract experience
Familiarity with Priority Services
Participation in an "on call rotation" on an as-needed basis
At least 18 years of age
Legally authorized to work in the United States
US Citizenship (without dual citizenship) required
Must be able to obtain US security clearance; Active clearance preferred
The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidate’s actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range.
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