Distinguished Engineer (MTD)
Englewood, Colorado
Spectrum’s growth and success in the ever-evolving technological landscape are built on the sophisticated innovations and service reliability our Network Operations groups provide. Our Operating Model focuses on maintaining operational excellence and reliability of Spectrum’s network to enhance our customer’s experience. The Network Operations environment is based on our Key Laws of Focus which values accuracy, resiliency and response time.
Applications Platform Operations (APO) encompasses an expansive range of proficiencies over five major areas of expertise: IT Security, Provisioning, Operations System Support, Data Implementation, and Email and Customer Portal. We focus on the technology and services that create a seamless and secure customer experience.
- Full-time
- Job level: Entry to Senior
- Travel: Occasional
Success profile
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- Analytical
- Problem Solving
- Detail-oriented
- Flexible
- Leadership
- Team Player
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Spectrum wants to help you get more out of life and take care of things outside the office to make life a little easier. We provide:
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Health Insurance
Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision plans available.
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Paid Time Off
Paid vacation, sick and personal time, and holidays.
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401(k) Retirement Savings
We provide a 100% match for every dollar you contribute, up to 6% of your eligible pay.
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Education Assistance
Get reimbursed up to $10,000 a year for undergraduate and graduate degrees through our partnership with Guild.
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Career Progression
Advancement is a very real and achievable goal.
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Training and Certification
Sponsored courses help enhance your skills.
Responsibilities
Are you ready to drive innovation and shape the future of technology at Spectrum? Join our team as a Distinguished Engineer, where your expertise and vision will influence both our organization and the wider industry. Collaborate with senior leaders, vendors, and partners to set technology direction and foster the adoption of cutting-edge solutions. If you excel at mentoring, thought leadership, and guiding transformative initiatives, Spectrum offers a unique platform to elevate your career while making a lasting impact.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Work with senior leaders to shape the go-forward vision for the organization, drive thought leadership, business focus, and innovation across the organization
- Drive roadmaps to meet business goals, work with vendors and partners on the successful strategy, planning, and implementation of critical tooling and platforms
- Demonstrate strong technology roadmap influence within the organization to meet business goals; evaluate new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
- Attract, develop and motivate top talent; teach, mentor, grow, and advise other domain experts; mentor senior engineers on how to grow their careers and expand their sphere of influence
- Understand and articulate the value creation and business proposition to teams and functional partners
- Participate in and lead learning activities within the organization
- Promote and facilitate collaboration within teams and across organizations and connect teams facing similar challenges and problems to encourage consistency
- Attend conferences to learn and apply new technologies and demonstrate technical industry leadership through speaking engagements and publications.
- Motivate and mentor more junior engineers to become the natural technology leader of the organization
- Promote customer focus thought-out technology roadmaps; field questions from product, project, and support teams
- Evangelize successful usage of tooling and technologies across the organization and enterprise
- Actively engage in industry innovation and direction by learning new technologies and best practices through reading, tutorials, networking, and videos.
- Final escalation points for technology issues across organizations
Working Conditions
- Office environment
What You’ll Bring to Spectrum
Required Qualifications
- Education
- Master’s degree in Engineering
- Experience
- 16+ years of engineering work experience
- 16+ years of project management work experience
- Extensive industry experience in network architectures, and technologies
- Skills
- Ability to read, write, speak and understand English and effectively communicate complex problems in a simple and effective manner
- Ability to perform duties in a very fast-paced environment, learn new technology quickly, and self-study new technologies
- Ability to create a business case encompassing business and technology requirements
- Ability to communicate technology to non-technical senior business leaders
- Expert knowledge in network/platform/system design, architectures, protocols and relevant topologies, TCP/IP, IPv4 and IPv6 and the OSI Model, network devices, network applications and servers
- Demonstrated some telecommunication industry leadership
- Self-driven individual with the ability to deliver major projects with minimal supervision
Preferred Qualifications
- Education
- Industry and vendor specific certifications and training (Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, etc.)
Here, our employees don’t just have jobs, they're building careers. That’s why we offer a comprehensive pay and benefits package that rewards employees for their contributions to our success, supporting all aspects of their well-being 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 2025-10-09 06:26 PM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between $155,430.00 and $275,990.00. 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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