Network Engineer III; Access

GCI's Network Engineer III will apply engineering principles to multiple sub-groups within the Technology Solutions internal departments; responsible for architectural design, development, implementation, and support within the company and/or between business departments that follow telecommunication industry standards using engineering principles.

• Ensures the integrity of high availability network infrastructure to provide maximum performance in design, implementation, and support.
• Able to understand GCI standard engineering concepts of availability, efficiency, redundancy, scalability, and security.
• Able to Identify opportunities for continuous improvement of the current network and/or systems facilities.
• Maximizes performance using network monitoring tools, troubleshooting network and/or system outages, scheduling updates, and collaborating with architects on optimization.
• Maintains professional skillset by participating in educational opportunities, technical organizations, reading professional publications, and personal use of technology.
• Provides detailed reports on network operational status, and milestones related to project completion.
• Capable of remote site support for off-site personnel and customers.
• Coordinates with project management and engineering teams on a regular basis. Supports and manages escalation events. Develops and updates documentation and support materials. Mentors’ junior engineers and technicians.

Additional Engineer Job Duties & Disciplines

• Required to be available for on call or after-hours support for emergency call outs performed by SMC (Service Management Center)/ NOC.
• Participant in troubleshooting bridges by providing guidance to coworkers, customers, or vendors and cross pillar collaboration with other engineering, administrative and technical groups.
• Responsible for identifying and developing solutions that resolve and improve the efficiencies of an incident break fix, move add change deletions (MACD) requests and logical maintenance activities through process, procedures, training, documentation, or automation.
• Develop best practices and procedures related to account management, access authorization & validation, and mitigation & remediation of any identified security vulnerabilities.
• Responsible for review and recommendations of hardware critical sparing, vendor procurement activities and third-party software and hardware maintenance support.
• Experience, ongoing training and focus on the included technology addendums.
• Required to be available for on call or after-hours support for emergency call outs performed by SMC (Service Management Center).
• Participant in troubleshooting bridges by providing guidance to coworkers, customers, or vendors and cross pillar collaboration with other engineering, administrative and technical groups.
• Responsible for identifying and developing solutions that resolve and improve the efficiencies of an incident break fix, move add change deletions (MACD) requests and logical maintenance activities through process, procedures, training, documentation, or automation.
• Develop best practices and procedures related to account management, access authorization & validation, and mitigation & remediation of any identified security vulnerabilities.
• Responsible for review and recommendations of hardware critical sparing, vendor procurement activities and third-party software and hardware maintenance support.
• Experience, ongoing training and focus on the included technology addendums.

This role is part of CTO focused on technology related to Transport and Access Engineering.

Protocols & Standards:

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