Minimum qualifications: + Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience. + 3 years of experience in DWDM or TCP/IP or system design operations methodology. Preferred qualifications: + Knowledge of Content Distribution Networks (CDN), IP transit/peering, dark fiber, colocation, optical transport, cloud technologies and industry processes. + Knowledge of internal planning and design tools. + Excellent organizational, multitasking, and prioritization abilities while paying attention to detail. + Excellent Financial skills (e.g., cost-benefit analysis). Google is proud to boast a network that provides service to millions of Internet users around the world. The Network Engineering team is responsible for operating that network reliably and at scale. As a member of the team, you have a direct impact on design and feature enhancements to keep our systems running smoothly. You also ensure that network operations are safe and efficient by monitoring network performance, coordinating planned maintenance, adjusting hardware components and responding to network connectivity issues. Google's complex network generates a constant stream of challenges which require you to continually be innovative with an evolving set of technologies. Keeping the network reliable ensures that our users stay connected with our suite of applications, products and services. As part of the Edge Planning and Design team you will play a vital role in enabling various Product Areas through making sure that Edge network is efficiently built on-time while meeting our reliability and policy requirements. Working with Netsoft, Edge Planning and Design (EPD) team drives the software automation roadmap to improve the quality and reduce the cycle time for Edge planning and design. Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible. + Produce plans that maximize demand admission within product Service Level Objective (SLO), in line with established standards and minimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). + Produce designs for all active devices participating in Production. Do consistently entire network, plan and designs completeness and reliably (on time publications and deliverables to the team’s customers). + Incorporate New Product Introduction solutions into plans and designs. Ensure plan and design toolsets and business processes are ready for intake New Product Introductions (NPIs). + Evolve the business processes governing the generation of plans (xPOR) and designs, throughout their life-cycle (input gathering, generation, validation, publication), including the business policies that govern them (architectural/topology, hardware life-cycle, capacity/utilization goal, failure policy). + Drive the automation roadmap of all automatable tasks performed by the team, reducing cycle time and improving quality and consistency. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.