Systems Engineer III -Equipment Staging Center

Do you enjoy creating robust technology solutions that drive operational excellence? Join Spectrum as a Systems Engineer III and shape the end-to-end deployment, configuration, and quality assurance of Charter’s hardware and systems across multiple environments. Your expertise will support all internal verticals by ensuring devices are properly prepared, configured, and documented, enabling teams to operate more efficiently, improving the quality of service delivered to Charter customers.

How You’ll Make an Impact 

• Coordinate with internal departments to assess integration capabilities, data sources, and solution designs for feasibility, cost, and functionality 
• Conduct design sessions with architects and engineers; create detailed design documents and functional specifications for new platforms and services 
• Collaborate on configuration designs for various environments and create work effort estimates for new features and bug fixes for prioritization and release management
• Develop core code modules, unit test tools, and release notes for enhancements and bug fixes, and review development tools for functionality 
• Identify opportunities for automation and tooling and collaborate to design and implement them (e.g., scripted provisioning, configuration management, bulk upgrades).
• Partner with all internal verticals to understand requirements and translate them into technical implementation plans.
• Create MOPs and standard operating procedures to meet the skill and time needs of a constantly changing environment.

Working Conditions 

• Mixed office, warehouse, data center environments with extended periods of standing, walking, bending, and working in constrained spaces (e.g., floor pallets, racks, aisles).
• Ability to lift up 50lbs

What You’ll Bring to Spectrum 

Required Qualifications 

Education 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience; May require Industry Standard Certifications 
  

Experience  

• 5+ years of application development work experience 
  
• 4+ years of network OSS application work experience 
  
• 3+ years of system administration work experience 
  
• 3+ years of database support and development work experience 
  
• 3+ years of enterprise application integration work experience  
  

Skills  

• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English  
  
• Advanced ability to conduct design sessions to specify solution designs for feasibility, cost, and functionality and create detailed documentation to functionally understand new and existing applications  
  
• Advanced ability to follow and implement established change and control policies and procedures and troubleshoot application problems  
  
• In-depth knowledge of development tools, application frameworks, and testing tools, OSS applications and software, and choosing the appropriate lifecycle and the planning, monitoring and control of the systems engineering process  
  
• Ability to effectively transform an operational need into a description of system parameters and incorporate those parameters in the control of the total system development to achieve an optimum, cost-effective balance of all system elements  
  
• Advanced knowledge of network and systems engineering systems concepts and system/super-system skills, including NetApp Clustered On-TAP, Cisco UCS, and VMWare systems  
  

Preferred Qualifications 

Experience  

• 5+ years of experience in Systems Administration, Networking, Datacenter operations, or comparable infrastructure-oriented roles.
• 5+ years of Unix/Linux administration experience 
• 3+ years of experience with cable communications architecture, preferably in an ISP, cable provider, or similar service provider environment.