Job Description
Position Type: Intern Location: Austin, Texas Date Posted: Date posted 09.25.2024 Areas of interest: Intern Requisition Number: 2024-41073 Business unit: Spectrum Enterprise GGN100
At a Glance
- You’re a motivated rising senior student with a 3.0 GPA or higher seeking a degree in one of the following areas listed below from an accredited college or university:
- Information Technology
- Computer Science
- This is a learning-intensive program designed to give you essential business insights and hands-on experience in your field of choice. It’s a full-time, 10-week commitment from May 28, 2025 through August 1, 2025.
- Benefits include professional development sessions, networking opportunities, and mentorship.
The Spectrum Internship Experience
You have clear aspirations and are seeking a summer internship program that will help you meet them. Find it at Spectrum, named one of the 2023 Top 100 Internship Programs in the United States by WayUp and Yello.
Our internships are designed to provide:
- Opportunities to gain new skills and elevate the ones you already have, all in a robust and forward-thinking business setting.
- First-rate, hands-on experience in the telecommunications industry.
- Opportunities to connect you with people who can give you a better understanding of the industry and help you accomplish real goals you can add to your résumé, this includes assigning you a formal mentor and interactions with senior executives.
What you can expect in this role
As a Spectrum Intern, you’ll be essential to two teams — your respective department and your Intern peer group. Department and team-focused projects account for about 80% of your schedule. You’ll spend the other 20% on professional development sessions and networking activities, including the Kickoff Conference on May 28th, webinars, community service, cross-functional project, and final presentations.
Internship responsibilities may include
- Implement and maintain access, edge and core network configurations on new and existing infrastructure in strict adherence to existing engineering best practices and standards.
- Processing and handling of engineering requests for implementation, configuration changes, and service disconnects through defined workflows.
- Provides technical guidance and assistance to other departmental boundary partners within the Spectrum Enterprise organization such as field technicians, or other engineering and support teams.
- Works on projects/ systems/issues of medium to high complexity surrounding network planning, configuration and optimization.
- Perform QA functions for validation and performance testing of newly installed services and hardware.
- Performs other duties as requested by manager.
- Work with CLI/GUI across multiple platforms such as Cisco, Juniper, and Nokia
Here’s what it takes to get started
Required qualifications
- Must be enrolled in an accredited College or University graduating with a bachelor’s degree between December 2025 - May 2026
- Must have at least a 3.0 GPA or greater in current program
- Ability to travel locally to Spectrum Intern development events and activities throughout the program
- Authorization to work in the U.S. without restrictions or need for future sponsorship
Preferred qualifications
- Ability to understand complex technical documentation, processes, and problem resolution.
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Competent data networking knowledge (OSI Model, TCP/IP, Optical Transport)
- Competent understanding of optical transmission technologies including SONET, DWDM, CWDM, and EPON services.
- Some knowledge of network design, network architecture, protocols, and network topology
- Ability to adapt quickly to tools and applications such as ticketing systems and software tools to support the current operations.
- Competent experience of basic network devices and basic network appliances
- Ability to perform duties in a very fast-paced environment and ability to learn new technology quickly. Great attention to detail.
- Communication skills – verbal and written
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access
GGN100 2024-41073 2024
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