Commercial Network Technician

Commercial Network Technician

Summit Broadband Inc. is a cutting edge, fiber-based broadband provider delivering best in class residential, commercial, and hospitality technology solutions. This growing, dynamic high-tech company headquartered in sunny Central Florida, is seeking a Commercial Network Technician to join our Commercial Operations Team and grow with us. The new Summit Broadband is poised for an incredible future fueled by team members dedicated to being the best.

Reports to:

Manager, Network Services

Status:
Full Time/Non-Exempt

Location:

Central Florida

The Commercial Network Technician must have very strong customer service skills and exceptionally strong technical skills working with customer CPE, a variety of network and access equipment devices, as well as designs and configurations. This employee will spend a portion of their time in customer premises and will also interface with business, commercial customers and VIP or special case residential customers.

This position will work both the installation and maintenance of network equipment/sites and customer services for Summit Broadband. This position includes the documenting and building of the IP/MPLS Network infrastructure and ensuring birth certificates are accurate and in place ensuring continuous functionality, network security, reliability and redundancy and optimization of network resources. Excellent customer service both while installing and during troubleshooting operations is critical to this position.

This individual will be responsible for all customer installation, maintenance, and updates in the commercial, business and VIP residential product suite in addition to the installation and maintenance of Network equipment and sites in the Central Florida region.

• Maintains Telecommunications and network systems, including phone systems, network nodes, terminals, and network systems (both infrastructure as well as customer-facing). This includes maintenance, operation and provisioning of the following:
  • HFC proof of performance testing
  • CLI testing/repair
  • VoIP, both internal and third-party VoIP services
  • TDM, both internal and third party TDM services
  • SIP, both internal and third-party SIP services
  • Star2
    
    Star Telephone system support
  • IPTV, where applicable
• Maintenance, design, provisioning and troubleshooting of various network topology components, including long haul transport and metro transport
• Distribution construction, preventative, and demand maintenance.
• Splicing all types of coax cable, CAT 5/6 cable and fiber optics.
• Setting equipment levels, set up and change out of amplifiers, calculate signal level losses in cable or fiber, and balance electronics equipment for distribution lines.
• Install, inspect, monitor, test and adjust cable transmission and distributions systems; both forward and reverse
• Repair or replace faulty cables, power supplies, amplifiers and other associated transmission and distribution equipment
• Conduct system tests such as signal/noise, MER, BER, optical power and signal level.
• Troubleshooting and restoration of service; service calls
• Configuration of multiple types of network and access network equipment.
• Monitors and understands network capacity components including ports, transport circuits and bundles.
• Acts as level two technical support and “smart hands” for the Network Engineers in the IP and MPLS team, serving as technical support to the Network Operations Center (NOC).
• Acts as “smart hands” for break/fix as well as optimization activities for network facing events.
• Ability to clearly document, update and read/follow the Electronic Network Ticket Management system.
• Clear communication with business clients.
• Identify and resolve NESC violations.
• Installation of new services at the subscriber’s location including analog, digital, Voice, IPTV, HDTV and HSD service.
• Other duties as assigned including non-technical and administrative/project management duties.

• HFC proof of performance testing
• CLI testing and repair
• Troubleshooting, forward and return signal issues
• Configuring – Physical configuration of CPE equipment as well as some…