Mid Level DOCSIS DAA Engineer (Denver Based or Relocatable to Denver)

Mid-Level DOCSIS DAA Engineer (Denver Based or Relocatable to Denver)

1099, FTE available

Exciting opportunity for a Mid-Level DOCSIS DAA Engineer whose primary residence is based in Denver. Strong cable Access Engineering experience working with Distributed Access Architectures (DAA) and Remote PHY. You will participate in the definition of new product features, development of DAA test cases, DAA deployment planning, and field triage, with a focus on proactive identification and analysis of service failures in the lab and in the production environment, with a goal of keeping these events out of the production releases.

Responsibilities:

• Support and QA Test the rollout of new updated DAA Remote PHY products and software by participating in field issues, field upgrades and deployments and monitoring the outcomes of DOCSIS DAA Gear (RPDs). QA Test RPD/rSwitch features/bug fixes and the subsystems that support the devices (for example, GCPP, vCMTS, and RLCM).
• Be a point of contact for field issues caused by software or hardware bugs.
• Assist in identifying field issues and lead efforts to triage and perform a root cause analysis.
• Assist with the development of detailed design requirements for new RPD/rSwitch features/bug fixes and the subsystems that support the devices (for example, GCPP, vCMTS, and RLCM).
• Support monitoring device performance and identifying fault conditions using approaches such as Moody smart alerts, Grafana, or scripts that gather data from devices.
• Development of test plans to exercise new and current features.
• Coordinate with other DAA technology suppliers and company teams including regions, divisions, and corporate technology / business unit teams to identify related requirements.
• Prioritize, track, and communicate QA design, QA development and QA test of implementation requirements of DOCSIS DAA technologies and services (RPDs, rSwitch features, vCMTS)
• Partner with the program team to plan, and execute successful projects based on roadmap.

Requirements

Required Skills & Experience:

• Minimum 5 years DOCSIS (3/3.1/4) engineering and management engineering
• Minimum 4 years of Distributed Access Architecture with Remote PHY focus. This is NOT a CPE Test Engineer position.
• Strong technical understanding of R-PHY, DOCSIS (3/3.1/4) physical, MAC, and upper-layer protocols, OSS, and PNM collection and streaming telemetry, and HFC technologies.
• Prior interoperability experience among industry major DAA product and CCAP core vendors Harmonic, Vecima, Cisco, CommScope, Viavi, and Casa.
• Technical understanding of Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) and R-PHY (Remote PHY).
• Technical understanding of 55-1/55-2 video deployments and management.
• Experience with Comcast triage tools and systems for both legacy and DAA technologies, including NWT, Yeti, Grafana, Kibana, and vCMTS Operations Portal.
• Minimum 5 years HFC next gen technologies.
• Creative, self-motivated teammate who is willing to take ownership of tasks assigned and new responsibilities and empower others.
• Comfortable in being uncomfortable; programs move quickly, decisions change, plans adapt to changes, uncertainty is all around.

Benefits

Leading Path is an award-winning Information Technology and Management Consulting firm focused on providing solutions in process, technology, and operations to our government and Fortune 500 clients. We offer a professional work environment with a strong work-life balance. Leading Path provides a comprehensive and competitive benefits package, 401K, tuition reimbursement and opportunities for professional growth and advancement.