Senior Planning Engineer

Lumen Technologies is a trusted network for AI, transforming how businesses connect, secure, and scale in an AI-driven world. The Senior Planning Engineer will manage network elements for voice and data networks, monitor capacity utilization, and forecast bandwidth growth to produce capacity triggers for relief.

Responsibilities:

• Triggers projects utilizing the most feasible, practical and economical means
• Performs engineering work and applied research, development and design of new projects, to include design, fabrication, modification and evaluation of equipment and devices
• Skilled in planning and/or engineering
• Analyzes complex local and wide area network systems and/or customer network environment, including planning, designing, evaluating, selecting operating systems and protocol suites and configuring communication media with concentrators, bridges and other devices
• Must be capable of handling moderately complex engineering assignments
• Resolves difficult interoperability problems to obtain operation across all platforms including e-mail, files transfer, multimedia, teleconferencing and the like
• Configures systems to user environments
• Supports acquisition and implementation of hardware and software as well as subcontractor services
• May act as a technical project leader or provide work leadership for lower level employees
• Excludes those with full supervisory responsibilities
• Requires limited direction and guidance

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and relevant experience
• 6+ years of related experience
• 4+ years of related experience with a Master's Degree
• Skilled in planning and/or engineering
• Must be capable of handling moderately complex engineering assignments
• Requires limited direction and guidance