Tier 3, Engineer 4 – Network Solutions Engineer

Comcast•Plano, TX

1d•$98,426 - $162,403•Remote

About The Position

The Tier 3, Engineer 4 role provides senior-level technical execution and leadership for complex enterprise network activations supporting large, high-visibility customers. This role independently drives day-to-day technical decisions, partners directly with customers and internal stakeholders, and coordinates cross-functional teams to deliver successful network implementations. Tier 3, Engineer 4 acts as a technical escalation point for the team, balances customer and business requirements, and ensures issues are resolved efficiently with a strong focus on service quality and operational excellence. They contribute to continuous improvement efforts through root cause analysis and tactical process enhancements.

Requirements

7-10 Years Relevant Work Experience
Bachelor's Degree (or combination of coursework and experience, or extensive related professional experience)

Nice To Haves

Demonstrates expert level knowledge of Internet Protocol (IP) routing and switching fundamentals.

Responsibilities

Advanced Technical Expertise: Deep hands-on knowledge of enterprise network architectures and SDN/SDWAN solutions; capable of designing, activating, and troubleshooting complex network implementations.
Customer & Partner Communication: Communicates effectively with enterprise customers and internal teams, translating technical details into clear impacts, risks, and recommendations.
Cross-Functional Coordination: Works across engineering, service delivery, product, and operations teams to deliver end-to-end activation outcomes.
Ownership & Accountability: Takes ownership of assigned activations and issues from initiation through resolution, proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
Independent Decision-Making: Exercises sound technical judgment and autonomy within established frameworks, considering both customer experience and business priorities.
Problem Resolution & RCA: Performs root cause analysis on complex issues and recommends targeted improvements to processes, designs, or tooling.
Works in a 24x7 Operations environment supporting live customers.
Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
Performs technical training to junior operations/engineering team members.
Provisions network service configuration in the Software Defined Network (SDN) Service platform for services such as Firewall, NAT/PAT, QoS, DHCP, Traffic Steering, BGP, Static Routes, Wireless Backup, Hybrid WAN, High Availability, LAN and WAN interfaces, etc.
Completes Bill of Materials (BOM) for hardware required for each site provisioned, ensuring the configuration and hardware match to meet the customer’s requirements.
Working with Customer Project Managers (CPM), provides configurations and technical leadership as a primary technical resource on IP router network technologies, traffic flows, and overall end to end network communication during the Service Delivery process.
Tests and turns up new uCPE and Wireless Backup circuits in a production environment.
May recommend new practices and procedures, as necessary.
Executes test plans and logs results.
Gathers supporting documentation such as installation photos and speed tests.
Interfaces with customers in regard to acceptance testing of SDN Overlay and Wireless Backup services.
Develops and implements test and acceptance criteria for network elements.
Troubleshoots IP networking and security issues, providing resolutions according to established practices and procedures including executing packet captures, analyzing network performance data, reviewing security profiles, parsing log files, and understanding the customer’s desired outcome.
Interfaces with customers to resolve customer issues with their service & to understand Change of Service requests.
Interfaces with customers to help educate them on the use and functionality of their service.
Opens and updates service tickets in database/tracking system.
Expertly troubleshoots IP and Network Security issues including routing, performance, connectivity, access, network address translation, access control lists/firewall rules, and network management protocols (DHCP, DNS, etc.).
Analyze network performance metrics and identify service affecting root causes to customer chronic and systemic issues.
Collaborates with customer, Development and Strategic Engineering, and SDN Service platform vendor during in-depth troubleshooting.
Executes Change of Service requests through the SDN Service platform.
Validates functionality after changes made to ensure customer satisfaction.
Escalates issues in a timely fashion.
Provides all relevant information, accurately entering information into trouble ticket database.
Performs deep dives and root cause analysis into customer issues looking for systemic problems.
Collaborates with Engineering and Vendor teams on resolution of systemic problems.
Coordinates and implements patches in the production environment to resolve systemic problems.
Provides feedback to and supports applications/features/products under development.
Assists with the software update process for existing applications, and rollouts of software releases.
Collaborates with project stakeholders to identify tool and technical requirements to support Operations.
Conducts analysis to determine integration needs.
Works with Product Development team to determine if products, features, and applications fit specification and technical requirements.
Researches, writes and edits documentation and technical requirements, including product and feature designs, evaluation test plans, test results, technical manuals and formal recommendations and reports.
Provides expertise and guidance to junior team members.
Supports both standard customers as well as large/complex customers with custom designs and configurations.
Exercises judgment during incident management, site design, network configuration and network activation to ensure efficient use of time.
Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.