Are you ready to assist in planning, forecasting, and implementing highly complex network systems? We have opportunities supporting operations in Managed Services as well as IP Routing. As a Network Engineer III at Spectrum, you will design protocol compatibility standards, develop network enhancements, recommend improvements, and be responsible for implementing network architecture and designs.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Participate in network planning, network architecture design and engineering
- Integrate and schematically depict communication architectures, topologies, hardware, software, transmission and signaling links and protocols into complete network configurations
- Evaluate new products, perform network problem resolution
- Assist in the development and documentation of technical standards
- Develop and implement approved methods of procedure
- Design and establish protocol compatibility standards, develop and implement network enhancements and make recommendations for improvement
- Work on projects/systems/issues of medium to high complexity surrounding network planning, configuration and optimization
- Provide escalated tier support across organizations and to third party vendors
- Work on one or more projects as a project team member, occasionally as a project team lead
- Adhere to industry specific local, state, and federal regulations, as applicable
Working Conditions
- Office Environment
- May work in Network Lab environment
- Depending on business group, on-call work may be an essential function of the job
- Occasional travel as required
What You’ll Bring to Spectrum
Required Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience
Experience
- 5+ years data network experience
Skills
- Ability to read, write and speak the English language
- Ability to use personal computer and software applications like Microsoft Office
- Demonstrated in-depth data networking knowledge (OSI Model, TCP/IP, Optical Transport)
- Ability to work in a team environment, perform duties in a very fast-paced environment and ability to learn new technology quickly
- Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of related industry specifications and standards IEEE, ANSI, Fiber (Multimode, Single mode, UTP, etc.), Bridging, Switching, Routing, Ethernet and Transport technologies and protocols
- Demonstrated in-depth knowledge in network design, network architecture, network protocols, network topology, network devices, and network appliances
- Demonstrated in-depth knowledge in using ticketing and software tools to support the current operations.
- Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of network designing software, such as Visio
Preferred Qualifications
Education
- Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
- Industry and vendor specific certifications and training (Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, etc.)
Skills
- Knowledge of company products and services
