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Cox Enterprises · 1 day ago

Senior Hospitality Network Engineer

Cox Enterprises is a leading telecommunications company, and they are seeking a Senior Hospitality Network Engineer to manage and support their Wi-Fi platform and related infrastructure. The role involves planning, implementing, and troubleshooting advanced network solutions in a high-scale service provider environment.

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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

Qualification

Wi-Fi standardsPacket-based protocolsMPLSRouting protocolsSecurity protocolsNetwork Monitoring SystemsUnix Shell scriptingCommunication skillsInterpersonal skillsProject management

Required

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 2 years' experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 8 years' experience in a related field
Requires strong knowledge in Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi related IEEE standards, protocols, and service-provider architectures
2 + years' experience of Wireless (3GPP/3GPP2) standards, protocols, and service-provider architectures
Intermediate level knowledge in packet-based protocols (IP, DHCP, DNS, TCP, UDP, etc.)
Intermediate level knowledge in MPLS and routing protocols (OSPF, BGP4, etc..)
Intermediate level knowledge of security protocols and authentication (WPA2, WISPr, EAP, 802.1x, AAA, RADIUS)
Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills

Preferred

Unix Shell and Scripting skills on Linux (or U*ix systems) preferably CentOS, RHEL or FreeBSD
Familiarity with Network Analyzer tools such as Wireshark
Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
Certifications: NRS II, CCNA, JNCIA
Experience in telecommunications industry desired – preferably 5+ years operating in a tiered level technical service assurance and/or service implementation environment
Experience leading projects to enhance the network capability for existing and future services
Specific experience in the designing and operating of large scale service provider wireless networks. Broad experience should include: Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 standards)
Participation in SCTE and related certifications
Expert level knowledge in Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi related IEEE standards, protocol, and service provider architectures
Expert level knowledge in packet-based protocols (IP, DHCP, DNS, TCP, UDP, etc.)
Expert level knowledge in MPLS and routing protocols (OSPF, BGP4, etc..)
Expert level knowledge in Network Monitoring Systems and Device/Network Management Systems, like SNMP, etc
Intermediate knowledge in Linux administration in a network tools or operation capacity (Cacti, NUTTCP, iPERF, RANCID, Nagios, Zabbix, etc.)

Benefits

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
Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members
Additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave
Time off to vote
Jury duty leave
Volunteer time off
Military leave
Parental leave
Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
Retirement planning (401(k))
Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)

Company

Cox Enterprises

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Cox Enterprises is a communications, media, and automotive services company.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$1.7M
2014-12-15Grant· $1.7M

Leadership Team

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Alexander Taylor
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Patrick O'Boyle
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development
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