Sr Communications / Network Engineer

Summary
The Sr. Communications / Network Engineer will be primarily responsible for the successful planning, implementation and continued support of our Wi-Fi platform and related infrastructure.
Purpose
Roles in this subfamily perform operations engineering activities with intermediate level networking knowledge and skill in a 24/7 environment.
Key Responsibilities

• Supports implementation and deployment of new services, systems, applications and architectures with installation, configuration, integration, evaluation, testing, documentation, and training.
• Serves as a Subject Matter Expert and leads the design, build, and test activities with regards to new products, services, hardware, software, and feature/functionality within our core wireless components including routers, switches, wireless LAN controllers and access points.
• Manages advanced level projects within Operations to confirm delivery intervals and validate critical dates and milestones to ensure delivery of services stay on target.
• Clearly understand technical problems and define solutions to mitigate.
• Define solution test strategies and document results.
• Methodically scope, troubleshoot, diagnose, and fix complex problems as required in high-scale service provider WiFi environments while minimizing customer impacts and outages.
• Capture configurations, logs and packet captures as necessary for escalation to engineering peers or vendors and partners.
• Partner with Operations team members to prepare low level designs, configurations, and methods and procedures to gain operational perspective, including reliability, scalability, simplicity, and standardization.
• Partner with peer Engineering team members to gain in-depth understanding and risk of proposed changes to hardware or software.
• Replicate production issues in staging lab environments along with traffic generators as necessary.
• Assess and continually improve lab methods and procedures.
• Define event engineering requirements, author methods and procedures to be executed on defined SNMP or syslog alarm conditions and validate test cases in lower environments.
• Quickly understand preliminary product/platform concepts or high-level designs and subsequently author technical requirements as necessary.
• Translate high level engineering documentation into working configurations and test plans.
• Creates network change tickets in line with current processes and validates conflicts to ensure no unnecessary outages.
• Participate in a scheduled on-call rotation.
• Participate in planned maintenance activities during maintenance windows as needed.
• Assists with coaching and mentoring of junior technicians and Cox tiered support teams.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years of related experience OR Master's degree and 2 years of related experience
  OR Ph.D. and up to 1 year of related experience OR 8 years of experience in a related technology field, Experience must be recent.
• Strong knowledge of Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi-related IEEE standards, protocols, service-provider architectures, Enterprise managed WiFi architectures
• Intermediate to expert knowledge of layer 2 and layer 3 packet-based protocols (IP, DHCP, DNS, TCP, UDP)
• Intermediate to expert knowledge of MPLS and routing protocols (OSPF, BGP4)
• Intermediate to expert knowledge of security protocols and authentication (WPA2, WISPr, EAP, 802.1x, AAA, RADIUS)
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Experience with Tier 3 Network Engineering Support

Preferred

• Unix Shell and Scripting skills on Linux (or U*ix systems) preferably CentOS, RHEL or FreeBSD.
  
  • All servers unix based - preferred skill
• Familiarity with Network Analyzer tools such as Wireshark.
  
  • Strongly preffered -

USD 101,500.00 - 169,100.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $101,500.00 - $169,100.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.