Systems Engineer IV
This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
Here, employees don’t just have jobs, they build careers. That’s why we believe in offering a comprehensive pay and benefits package that rewards employees for their contributions to our success, supports all aspects of their well-being, and delivers real value at every stage of life.
A qualified applicant’s criminal history, if any, will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including local ordinances.
This job posting will remain open until 2025-08-24 04:00 AM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between $88,200.00 and $156,600.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.
BE PART OF THE CONNECTION
Are you ready to lead the planning, design, development, and execution of innovative solutions for security, service delivery, and data center management? As a Systems Engineer IV at Spectrum, you can drive the adoption of best-in-class practices across a complex back-office environment, focusing on business tasks, deployment, incident management, and more. In this role, you will design operational playbooks, implement platform enhancements, and lead the integration of application and data center architectures. You will also take charge of staff development, ensuring your team's growth and success.
WHAT OUR SYSTEMS ENGINEERS ENJOY THE MOST
- Design, deploy, manage, and ensure stability of the application and platform ecosystem and related back-office infrastructure and data centers to provide network security, high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability to effectively and efficiently support mission critical business systems.
- Responsible for all engineering activities and programming related to video services, including channel additions, removals, rebrands, SID changes, and Digital Program Insertion (DPI).
- Maintain a strong understanding of the video control plane and associated encryption systems, support components such as the Enterprise Controllers (DAC, EC), Network Encryptors (NEs), RADDs, Out-of-band Modulators (OMs), Anycast, SVOM and MAS.
- Ensure accurate implementation of configuration changes and updates across systems to maintain service quality and compliance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve video delivery and encryption issues.
- Demonstrate a high level of competence in IT operations, application monitoring, deployment and configuration management, availability and performance optimization, capacity management and forecasting, cloud computing, datacenter operations troubleshooting critical issues, and coordination of implementation.
- Represent the Engineering Department working closely with Architects and Engineers in designing, modeling, and implementing new technologies.
- Become a trusted partner of our engineering team through the delivery of excellent customer service and knowledge that will allow our business to grow.
- Troubleshoots and resolves major APO and system issues.
- Assist and lead efforts for design, redesign, and operational efficiencies as business objective and strategies evolve.
- Document project requirements including scope, costs, schedule, testing and terms of delivery to ensure project is completed with highest level of quality on time and within budget.
- Mentor and train other Engineering personnel in key elements of networking systems and provide technical presentations to instruct co-workers and other production services support individuals.
- Research and identify technology opportunities and their application to the business.
- Test and validate all new hardware and software for proper configuration and performance.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO SPECTRUM
Required Qualifications
- Experience:
- Six (6+) years of system or server administration.
- Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience.
- May require Industry Standard Certifications.
- Technical Skills:
- Systems knowledge (Linux, Unix)
- Infrastructure knowledge (Raw Iron, Steel Cloud, ElasticCloud, OpenStack, AWS)
- In-depth knowledge in areas of specialty for specific applications, and general knowledge of supporting or integrating applications creating platform ecosystems.
- Basic Knowledge in TCP/IP and the OSI Model.
- Expert knowledge in using ticketing and software tools to support the current operations.
- Expert knowledge of software designing software, such as Visio.
- General knowledge of OSI stack and application architectures.
- Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to read, write and speak the English language to communicate with employees, customers, suppliers, in person, on the phone, and by written communications in a clear, straightforward, and professional manner.
- Ability to use personal computer and software applications.
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Ability to perform duties in a very fast-paced environment and ability to learn new technology quickly.
- Ability to use the following office equipment telephone, copier, fax, and calculator.
- Ability to use personal computer and software applications.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Working Conditions:
- Office environment.
- May work in Lab or Data Center/Implementation Facility environment.
- 24x7 Network Operations environment.
- Occasional travel as required.
Preferred Education
- Oracle, Splunk, Linux, Unix, or other system administration certification are helpful.
Preferred Skills
- Knowledge of Spectrum products or services.
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.
- Total Rewards:See all the ways we invest in you—at work and in life
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Here, employees don’t just have jobs, they build careers. That’s why we believe in offering a comprehensive pay and benefits package that rewards employees for their contributions to our success, supports all aspects of their well-being, and delivers real value at every stage of life.
A qualified applicant’s criminal history, if any, will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including local ordinances.
This job posting will remain open until 2025-08-24 04:00 AM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between $88,200.00 and $156,600.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.
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