Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NextGen, a Kelly Telecom Company, is seeking a Strategic Network Project Manager / Engineering Specialist to support a large-scale network footprint optimization and modernization initiative. The role develops network consolidation and migration strategies, resolves technical challenges involving legacy technologies, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, and reports progress and recommendations to senior leadership.
Responsibilities
- Analyze network architecture, topology, system relationships, and end-to-end system flows
- Develop strategic approaches for network consolidation and modernization
- Identify opportunities to consolidate network equipment, circuits, and infrastructure across facilities
- Develop migration strategies for traffic, switches, transport equipment, power, and other network assets
- Analyze and resolve technical challenges involving legacy transport equipment, TDM networks, pair-gain systems, circuits, and other legacy technologies
- Partner with Engineering, Operations, Network Planning, ISP, Transport, Power/Space/Cooling, OSP, Real Estate, and other organizations
- Evaluate different consolidation and migration scenarios and their operational and financial impacts
- Support projects involving network footprint reduction, facility optimization, and decommissioning activities
- Track engineering and operational progress against network modernization, copper migration, switch shutdown, and other strategic targets
- Develop dashboards, reports, presentations, executive readouts, and status updates for senior leadership
- Identify gaps, redundancies, and rationalization opportunities within network inventory and asset data
- Support business-case development for network consolidation and modernization initiatives
- Evaluate lease obligations, carrier contracts, exit costs, and other commercial considerations associated with network/facility consolidation
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to overcome roadblocks and drive projects toward completion
- Assess existing network topology and identify consolidation opportunities
- Determine where network traffic and equipment should be migrated
- Develop solutions for legacy network and circuit challenges
- Evaluate multiple migration scenarios and recommend the optimal approach
- Translate technical findings into actionable strategies and executive-level presentations
- Work directly with leadership to develop and execute network optimization strategies
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications, Network Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or equivalent experience
- • 5–7+ years of experience in telecommunications, network engineering, network project management, or a related field
- • Strong understanding of network topology and network architecture
- • Experience with network technologies such as WAN, LAN, MPLS, SD-WAN, circuits, and legacy/TDM networks
- • Experience with circuit migration, traffic migration, network consolidation, or network modernization
- • Strong analytical and strategic problem-solving skills
- • Ability to evaluate technical dependencies and develop practical migration/consolidation strategies
- • Experience working with network inventory, asset registers, or similar data-management systems
- • Strong Excel/data-analysis skills for modeling, reporting, and tracking
- • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- • Ability to present complex technical information to senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders
- • Previous experience working for major telecommunications carrier, such as AT&T
- • Former engineering experience, particularly involving circuit migration or legacy network modernization
- • Experience with network or facility decommissioning
- • Experience supporting switch shutdowns, copper migration, or Open for Sales initiatives
- • Knowledge of telecommunications facilities, including data centers, central offices, communications rooms, and edge sites
- • Experience with capacity planning and service dependencies
- • Knowledge of carrier landscapes, contracts, and commercial structures
- • Experience developing cost-benefit analyses and business cases for network consolidation
- • Experience working with Real Estate, Transport Engineering, Inside Plant Engineering, Power/Space/Cooling, OSP, or Local Operations teams
- • Consulting experience with large-scale network transformation or modernization programs is a plus
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement — projects supporting major U.S. metropolitan markets
- Application skills support and ongoing career support
- 24/7 support and around-the-clock availability
- Competitive employee benefits
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