Join a Strong, Cohesive Team Supporting Customers' Interconnection Services Needs

Expand your knowledge, work with major name customers, and enjoy competitive compensation and career opportunities.

You combine your strong technical acumen and telecom industry knowledge with strong interpersonal and customer service skills, and the motivation to excel in a fast-paced, high-volume role. You're accurate, detail-oriented, and able to work independently and as a strong team member. If that describes you, the Provisioner II position with Digital Realty offers you some compelling advantages. Consider:

• While experience in data centers is a plus, as long as you have telecom provisioning experience, this could be your chance to add data center experience to your resume and expand your knowledge in other areas, such as fiber and copper connections.
• You will support facilities around the country, and you may have opportunities to gain international exposure.
• You will work with a variety of customers, including some of the biggest names on the Internet.
• Once you have proven yourself in this role, you could advance your career, such as stepping up to a circuit design provisioner role or pursuing other paths within Digital Realty.
• Enjoy the supportive atmosphere of a strong team as well as the stability and resources of a thriving, rapidly growing global corporation.

Digital Realty: Where the cloud lives and business thrives. We built the global standard for technical real estate, developing a unique capability to acquire, manage, and scale data center campuses. Now, Digital Realty is building a unique ecosystem of open solutions that power customer growth through exceptional service on a foundation of unrivaled data center expertise. The new Digital Realty combines unparalleled data center services, carrier-dense interconnection, real estate acumen, and financial strength to create unique power of choice and value when and where our customers need it.

To meet the basic qualification for this role, you will have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship. In addition, to be a good fit for the Provisioner II opportunity, you will have:

• Associate degree or three years of telecom experience  
• Understanding of telecom structured cabling standards  
• High proficiency in managing and resolving customer inquiries
• Must work well in a team environment
• General knowledge of circuit provisioning
• Knowledge of/IXC/CLEC/inter-company operations and procedures
• Data center experience is a plus

Reporting to the Provisioning Manager, as Provisioner II, you will join a proven and cohesive Provisioning team on the customer-focused, Service Assurance side, and support customer orders as they relate to interconnection services. You will learn and understand Digital Realty's business model and daily operations, and work internally with our implementation teams, the Global Command Center, Billing, and the Customer Service team to create a positive customer experience. Your primary responsibilities will include managing customer communication for interconnection services, finalizing all activities related to product selection, ensuring order and billing accuracy, and forwarding the order to the Circuit Design side of Provisioning for completion.  
 

Professional development
There will be opportunities to expand your knowledge and skills in this role. For example, you'll share ideas and insights with a strong team in Provisioning, and also interact regularly with Technicians. We are committed to helping our people grow professionally, including providing training.

Career Options
Success in this position could set you up to pursue advancement to a Provisioner III and beyond in either Service Assurance or Circuit Design. You could also choose other career paths in our global organization.

Growth Without Limits
We're growing fast and growing smart, including acquiring businesses that complement and strengthen our core offerings. We're already one of the largest players in our space, and ongoing growth will create opportunities for strong performers.

Global Reach
Digital Realty supports the data center, colocation and interconnection strategies of customers across the Americas, EMEA and APAC, ranging from cloud and information technology services, communications and social networking to financial services, manufacturing, energy, healthcare and consumer products.

Excellent Compensation
In addition to a competitive salary and discretionary bonus program, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes all you would expect plus some pleasant surprises, like multiple flexible spending plans, a generous company match on the 401(k) plan, and more.

More about the requirements
The following competencies and characteristics are just as important as the qualifications described under The Requirements tab:

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and or/equivalents; experience with Salesforce preferred
• Effective organizational skills and attention to accuracy and details
• Strong analytical skills
• Effective verbal and written communication skills (telephone, email)
• Ability to build effective internal and external relationships
• Ability to work and multitask in a fast-paced, high-volume environment

More about the role
In addition to the responsibilities described in The Role tab, you will:

• Review customer cross connect and disconnect requests for all interconnection services
• Troubleshoot all CFAs (Circuit Facility Assignments) with the customer, carriers, and onsite Digital Realty staff
• Verify LOA (Letter of Authorization) information and ensure accurate billing is applied as per customer contract
• Apply accurate products to each customer interconnection order and ensure its correctness within inventory and billing systems
• Act as the primary point for various data entry projects

Keys to your success
To excel in this role you will demonstrate initiative in learning our process flow, databases and Salesforce so you can get up to speed quickly. You'll leverage your technical knowledge daily but will also maintain a strong customer focus as you get to know our customers and their preferences. With direct customer interaction being frequent, you’ll want to be specific, clear and helpful in your communication.

To fit in well with the team, you should be willing to pitch in and help other provisioners when their workloads spike, and they'll do the same for you. The team is dispersed across multiple locations but works well together. A proactive approach to communicating with your Manager and teammates is essential.

In addition, to be an outstanding Provisioner II, you will:

• Achieve goals independently, but also know when to ask for help
• Remain open to learning concepts and other information as you start out and moving forward
• Dig in to discover the cause of issues, and be creative in solving them
• Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and pride in your work
• Pay attention to details and the accuracy of your work
• Remain flexible and adaptable to meet demands

This description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities.