Network Engineer III - Optical Network Operations

This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
Are you ready to assist in planning, forecasting, and implementing highly complex network systems? 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
  • 24x7 Network Operations 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, a related field or equivalent experience
• Experience: (Three) 3+ years of experience in Optical Transport Deployment
  
  • Experience with an optical network provider, or vendor acting in an operations or engineering role
  • Experience in building optical networking infrastructure and/or optical networking equipment/systems
  • (Three) 3+ years of experience with the operation, administration, and maintenance of Optical transport networks. Primary equipment includes Nokia PSS, CISCO NCS2015, Ciena 6500
  • Design, build, configure, and manage the installation/deployment of the Spectrum Enterprise optical network including infrastructure, hardware setup, commissioning, troubleshooting, and decommissioning old gear as we're in a constant upgrade cycle
  • Ability to receive complex work packages/network designs via workflow tool, interpret the request, execute the tasks to include: complete accurate impact statements and build Change Requests that include a detailed MOP
  • Experience with routing protocols, optical transport systems, provisioning and troubleshoot above noted equipment with various common service configurations
• Technical skills:
  
  • Strong familiarity with OTN, SONET, DWDM
• Skills:
  • English communication skills
• Abilities:
  • Ability to self-manage multiple tasks simultaneously across various job assignments
  • Maintain accurate ticket status, work in a fast-paced environment, under pressure, with strict deadlines
  • Execute above work on live customer circuits with skillset to avoid workman caused outages
  • Work in a 24/7 on-call rotation as needed to support trouble tickets and break/fix

Preferred Qualifications

• CCNP, OCP, NONC or other industry-specific certifications

SPECTRUM CONNECTS YOU TO MORE

• Dynamic Growth: The growth of our industry and evolving technology powers our employees' careers as they move up or around the company
• Learning Culture: With a dedicated focus on training and development, employees can have confidence that day one is truly just the beginning of a dynamic career
• Innovation: We move businesses forward by delivering high-speed data and fiber technology solutions that power today's evolving network demands
• Supportive Teams: Be part of a strong community that gives you opportunities to network and grow and wants to see you succeed
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