Network Engineer II

Company Overview

Spectrum's Product and Technology team creates, develops, and operates the nation's fastest mobile service, most reliable internet service, most viewed live TV app, and the most advanced WiFi, serving nearly 100 million users and 500 million devices. We are transforming the next era of connectivity and entertainment experiences. The diversity of experience available within Spectrum's Product and Technology team is unmatched and there are opportunities to grow your career as a designer, architect, engineer, developer, operator, or data scientist. We are creative, disciplined, hard-working, complex-problem solvers that believe in collaborating to deliver the highest quality customer experience.

BE PART OF THE CONNECTION

Under general supervision, assists in the planning, forecasting, evaluation, and reports results of products submitted for qualification. Responsible for development, enhancement and implementation of test methods/processes. Responsible for initiating, coordinating testing with other teams, tracking and completing documentation of assigned projects.

WHAT OUR NETWORK ENGINEERS ENJOY MOST

• Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
• Participates in evaluation planning, design and engineering of lab enhancements.
• Integrates communication industry architectures, topologies, hardware and software into complete network configurations.
• Evaluates new products, makes recommendations for improvement.
• Assists in the development and documentation of technical standards.
• Implements approved methods of procedure.
• Works on projects/systems/issues of medium to high complexity surrounding CATV planning, configuration and optimization.
• Provides support across organizations.
• Works on one or more projects as a project team member, occasionally as a project team lead.
• Adheres to industry specific local, state, and federal regulations, as applicable.
• Knows, understands and follows company policy.
• Performs other duties as requested by supervisor.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Required Skills/Abilities and Knowledge

• Ability to read, write and speak the English language
• Ability to use personal computer and software applications
• Demonstrated data networking knowledge (OSI Model, TCP/IP, Optical Transport)
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Demonstrated 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 knowledge in network design, network architecture, protocols and network topology
• Demonstrated knowledge in using ticketing and software tools to support the current operations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of basic network devices and basic network appliances
• Demonstrated knowledge of network designing software, such as Visio
• Ability to perform duties in a very fast pace environment and ability to learn new technology quickly Knowledge of Microsoft Office

Required Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience

Required Related Work Experience and Number of Years

Data network experience - 3

Preferred Skills/Abilities and Knowledge

Knowledge of company products and services

Preferred Education

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP ) Industry and vendor specific certifications and training (Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, etc.)

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