Cox Enterprises-posted 11 months ago
$31 - $47/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level
Atlanta, GA
5,001-10,000 employees
Telecommunications

The primary responsibility of the Service Assurance Technician III is to provide advanced technical support by functioning as a part of a 24x7x365 operations environment. This is a highly specialized support organization responsible for the daily operations of a Service Provider. This role requires the use of applied technical knowledge and practical experience to resolve complex issues. This role will be responsible for enhancing our customers' and employees' experience through detailed ticket and process reviews. The ideal candidate will be expected to review ticket data observing trends that identify an upcoming event and then apply fixes to prevent impact. This role will represent the team during the deployment of new products and hardware, ensuring the proper instrumentation, documentation and training occurs prior to release. One of the key elements of this position is to identify opportunities to optimize our tiered support model and move resolution closer to the customer avoiding unnecessary escalations. This role requires a high degree of proficiency with the problem management and knowledge management processes and will be expected to manage fix agents, boundary partners and leadership communications to improve KPI's, technical acumen and instrumentation. This role will also require familiarity with incident management, change management, problem management and other ITIL processes. This role assists with change conflict mitigation, knowledge management and other ITIL process and documentation needs.

  • Provides advanced technical support and problem resolution for the Cox network encompassing residential, Cox Business, and Enterprise platforms and services.
  • Provide advanced support to Service Assurance Technicians I & II at a service provider level with respect to refresher training, training on new features or technologies, lessons learned, and expert trouble-shooting advice as needed.
  • Resolve interoperability issues between customers' hardware and Cox premise equipment.
  • Validates network and other infrastructure redundancy through ongoing testing as necessary.
  • Validate operational success of deployments/maintenances.
  • Validate restore/repair actions and clear alarms.
  • Assist with development, implementation, and continuous improvement of operations processes/best practices.
  • Performs as Incident Commander for outages as required to ensure effective and timely communications and coordination of resources.
  • Uses applicable tools and applications for implementation, service, test and acceptance.
  • Maintains network and IT application integrity to achieve network/customer SLA and availability objectives.
  • Interfaces with NOC Technicians and support teams and vendors/providers.
  • Coordinates and prioritizes resolution efforts and preventative maintenance.
  • Audits problem/change tickets to identify opportunities to update procedures and provides feedback to leadership.
  • Assists with change management by creating, validating and performing pre/post change service level monitoring.
  • Responsible for completing After Action Reviews post service affecting events.
  • Comply with established Event/Incident/Problem/Change Management processes in MSO environment.
  • Ensure successful implementation of restoration/repair in the network by creating and/or implementing Change Request tickets.
  • Identify and assist in resolving multi-customer impacting platform issues.
  • Monitor network traffic and performance while maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction.
  • Open cases with hardware vendors and drive for solutions within required SLAs.
  • Provides second tier, high-level technical support to field operations personnel.
  • High School Diploma/GED and 5 years' experience in a related field.
  • A minimum of 5 years of experience supporting high-availability services in an ISP, Enterprise, and MSO Network Operations environment.
  • At least 5 years of experience supporting routers, switches, firewalls, IT applications, video services delivery, voice and/or data circuits.
  • Advanced knowledge of relevant protocols (e.g. SIP, MCGP/NCS, SS7, DHCP, IP Networking, and Telephony Switching Platforms).
  • Server applications and/or AS/400, basic understanding of OSI layers and IEEE standards.
  • Demonstrated ability to interface with all levels of Cox Communications and Cox Business customers.
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a dynamic, team environment.
  • Bachelor's degree in technology field, electronics or a minimum of 5 years of experience supporting high-availability services.
  • Advanced ability to communicate high level understanding of multi-services platforms, routing protocols and troubleshoot down to the packet level.
  • Displays expert level written, oral, problem solving, interpersonal, leadership, presentation, and collaborative skills.
  • Highly motivated, self-starter with a positive attitude.
  • Hands on technical experience with PBX systems.
  • Working knowledge with ITIL/eTOM principles.
  • MS server (MCSE), VMWare, UNIX, DNS, and DHCP.
  • Engages/directs others in developing innovative solutions.
  • Advanced level professional contributor on a project or specialty work team.
  • Familiarity with element management and other fault detection systems.
  • Employees are eligible to receive a minimum of sixteen hours of paid time off every month.
  • Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
  • Additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
  • Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision).
  • Retirement planning (401(k)).
  • Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).
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