Principal Engineer I
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Spectrum’s Product and Technology team creates, develops, and operates the nation’s fastest mobile service, most reliable internet service, most viewed live TV app, and the most advanced WiFi, serving nearly 100 million users and 500 million devices. We are transforming the next era of connectivity and entertainment experiences. The diversity of experience available within Spectrum’s Product and Technology team is unmatched and there are opportunities to grow your career as a designer, architect, engineer, developer, operator, or data scientist. We are creative, disciplined, hard-working, complex-problem solvers that believe in collaborating to deliver the highest quality customer experience.
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As a Principal Engineer I, provide advanced technical guidance and expertise to operations team in support of large-scale cloud infrastructure and applications, primarily on Amazon Web Services. Responsible for technical recommendations for design, development, application administration, deployments, scaling and troubleshooting complex microservice based applications and cloud infrastructure. Position involves proactive problem mitigation, automation of deployments, mitigation of high risk events, cost optimization and driving operational response/resolution to production issues.
WHAT OUR PRINCIPAL ENGINEERS ENJOY MOST
- The Principal Engineer I is an advanced technical resource that provides technical leadership to the operations teams, effectively communicates issues and proposed resolutions to senior leadership, and uses vast knowledge and experience to continually improve the environment and protect the customer experience.
- Utilize an advanced understanding of what is required to secure applications and infrastructure in a "cloud native" environment.
- Exhibit an advanced understanding of Microservices architecture
- Leverage extensive experience working as part of a distributed engineering team, contributing to architecture, requirements, feasibility, and cost analysis
- Use advanced Unix/Linux Administration skills
- Use advanced AWS administration and automation skills
- Leverage advanced experience in Shell, Python or similar scripting language, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
- Utilize extensive experience with the set up and management of continuous integration/delivery tools - Jenkins/Maven/GitCI/GitOps
- Leverage extensive experience with deployment automation/packaging/configuration in a large-scale production environment
- Use advanced skills to troubleshoot complex J2EE / LAMP application and environment issues
- Demonstrate advanced expertise around specifying, designing, documenting, and/or implementing system health, performance monitoring tools, and software management tools for 24x7 environments
- Use advanced understanding of networking, load balancing principles and approaches to scaling out of systems
- Create work effort estimates for assigned tasks and support prioritization and release management
- Provide 'on call' support to resolve application issues after normal business hours
- Use established change management processes, requiring operational procedures be performed with minimal customer impact, (i.e. during established maintenance window)
- Use above average data base working knowledge to work with database administrators to configure, tune and maintain databases in variety of languages
- Create advanced documentation of systems configurations and upgrades
- Lead efforts to design and implement change control policies and disaster recovery plans
- Be a technical escalation for other operations team members on extremely complex and challenging environment or application issues
- Perform other duties as requested by supervisor
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO SPECTRUM
Required Qualifications
- Experience:
- Engineering work experience – 5+ years
- Project management work experience – 5+ years
- Education:
- Masters or Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field or related work experience
- Technical skills:
- Basic knowledge of related industry specifications and standards IEEE, ANSI, Fiber (Multimode, Single mode, UTP, etc.), Bridging, Switching, Routing, Ethernet and Transport technologies and protocols
- Basic knowledge in network design, network architecture, protocols and network topology
- Basic knowledge in TCP/IP and the OSI Model
- Basic knowledge in using ticketing and software tools to support the current operations.
- Basic knowledge of network devices and basic network appliances Basic knowledge of network designing software, such as Visio
- Skills:
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with all levels of business users in a professional manner.
- Extensive experience with collaborating and building team consensus when interacting with both the leadership and the implementation teams.
- Abilities:
- Ability to read, write and speak the English language
- Ability to use personal computer and software applications
- Ability to perform duties in a very fast pace environment and ability to learn new technology quickly
- Travel Ability:
- Office environment
- Schedule:
- Full time
This position is eligible for our Hybrid Work Policy. Eligible employees can work from home up to one day each week.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
- Splunk
SPECTRUM CONNECTS YOU TO MORE
- Innovative Tools & Tech: Work with high-performing software and applications on the forefront of the digital telecommunications industry.
- Dynamic Growth: The growth of our industry and evolving technology will power your career as you move up or around the company.
- Supportive Teams: Who you are matters here. And, we aim to foster an inclusive workplace where every person is empowered to bring their best ideas.
- Total Rewards:See all the ways we invest in you—at work and in life
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This job posting will remain open until 2024-11-06 12:00 AM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between $110,800.00 and $196,400.00. 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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