Susanville, California
GRE Service Center, Minnesota
Phoenix, Arizona
Posted: 29-Jan-26
Location: Philomath, Oregon
Type: Full Time
Salary: $100,000- 130,000 BOE
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PEAK Internet is looking for a Senior Network Engineer.
Job Summary:
The Senior Network Engineer is a hands-on technical expert responsible for the design, operation, and continuous reliability of the PEAK Internet subscriber network. This role drives the day-to-day engineering, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of core, distribution, and access network infrastructure to ensure high availability, performance, and scalability.
The Senior Network Engineer owns network planning, troubleshooting, and optimization efforts, proactively identifying and resolving issues, implementing improvements, and ensuring best practices are followed across the network. This position provides technical leadership by setting standards, mentoring peers, and coordinating work with other team members as needed.
This is an on-site, full-time, 40-hour-per-week position. The regular schedule is Monday through Thursday, from 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., working out of both the Lebanon and Philomath offices. We offer competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, a four-day workweek, and opportunities for career advancement.
Essential Functions of the Position:
The essential functions of this position require prioritizing and completing all assigned tasks in a timely and efficient manner, adjusting for changing priorities and availability of resources, and demonstrating initiative in identifying additional job-related tasks to be completed when time permits.
- Operate, monitor, and maintain the ISP network to meet uptime, performance, and service-level objectives for residential and business customers.
- Serve as the escalation point for advanced network problems, performing root-cause analysis and restoring service across core, distribution, access, and customer-facing infrastructure.
- Plan, design, and deploy scalable, resilient network solutions supporting current services and future growth, including routing, switching, transport, and access technologies.
- Configure, maintain, and optimize routing protocols and traffic flows to ensure efficient, secure, and predictable network behavior.
- Proactively analyze performance metrics, utilization trends, and fault data to identify risks, perform capacity planning, and recommend upgrades before service degradation occurs.
- Implement and maintain security controls, routing policies, and best practices to protect the network from outages, misconfigurations, and external threats.
- Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain network equipment, software, and facilities, including routers, switches, transport systems, and supporting services.
- Create and maintain network diagrams, configurations, procedures, and standards to ensure consistency, operational efficiency, and knowledge transfer.
- Offer technical guidance to other engineers and technicians, review designs and configurations, and help elevate overall network engineering capability.
- Collaborate with internal teams and vendors on service launches, upgrades, and special projects, ensuring network requirements and timelines are met.
Position Requirements:
Qualified candidates for this position will have relevant education and experience necessary to perform the essential functions and meet the minimum performance expectations for this position.
Required Education and Experience --
- Minimum high school diploma or GED and vocational or technical training in telecommunications systems, computer networks, or related field; or any combination of education, training, and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
- 5+ years experience in telecommunications industry
- Valid driver’s license. Other driving-related requirements may apply depending on the nature and scope of responsibilities associated with driving on behalf of PEAK.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Deep understanding of ISP network architectures, including core, distribution, access, and peering environments supporting residential and business services.
- Proven ability to configure, operate, and troubleshoot routing and switching technologies, including BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRFs, SD-WAN, and high-availability designs.
- Hands on experience with common service provider platforms such as Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Calix, Ciena, etc.
- Ability to diagnose and resolve complex, multi-layer network issues under pressure, including intermittent, large-scale, or customer-impacting outages.
- Strong ability to install, configure, and maintain carrier-grade network equipment, transport systems, and supporting services in live production environments.
- Knowledge of traffic flow analysis, QoS, and routing policy design to optimize performance, manage congestion, and ensure consistent service delivery.
- Understanding of ISP-relevant security controls, including access controls, routing security, DDoS mitigation concepts, and configuration hardening.
- Ability to use network monitoring systems, logging, and automation tools to improve visibility, reduce manual effort, and increase operational reliability.
- Ability to produce clear network diagrams, standards, and procedures, and to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to prioritize work, make sound technical decisions, and maintain stability and consistency in a 24/7 operational environment.
Availability, Physical Demands, and Other Requirements:
Availability and Accessibility
Approximately 40 hours/week will be required to efficiently perform the job duties of this position, including presence at designated internal and external meetings. This position will also require availability and accessibility to respond to and address emergencies and critical situations outside of normal business operating hours in the evenings and/or during weekends.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Other Requirements:
- Able to lift, transport and/or move up to approximately 25 lbs.
- Drive on behalf of PEAK and/or report for work in all types of weather.
Disclosures:
This job description is not an employment agreement or contract. It is intended as a general guide of the job duties and tasks the person in this position may be asked to perform as part of our PEAK team. It is by no means an exhaustive list of all of the job duties or responsibilities that may be assigned to this position. Position descriptions may occasionally be updated, as necessary, to reflect evolving business needs, and such changes may not be reflected immediately in written form.
Refusal or unwillingness to perform duties and tasks assigned in a positive, professional and productive manner, even if seeming to fall outside of this description, may be considered insubordination and a violation of PEAK policies and expectations.
PEAK is an equal opportunity employer.