Strong understanding of broadband and CPE provisioning architectures at scale.
Hands-on experience engineering and supporting provisioning and device management platforms in a production service provider environment.
Deep working knowledge of protocols such as:
DHCP
TFTP
DNS
NTP / ToD
TR-069 / CWMP
TR-181 data model
USP / TR-369
SNMP
RADIUS / AAA
HTTP / HTTPS provisioning
REST APIs and platform integrations
Experience with one or more access technologies:
DOCSIS / HFC
GPON / XGS-PON
FTTH
Ethernet broadband
Managed Wi-Fi
VoIP CPE / eMTA / ATA
Experience with ACS, device management, firmware management, or provisioning platforms.
Strong understanding of CPE firmware management, device configuration templates, service profiles, boot files, and provisioning workflows.
Ability to troubleshoot packet-level provisioning flows using tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, logs, syslog, ACS traces, DHCP/TFTP logs, and platform telemetry.
Experience with Linux systems, scripting, APIs, SQL, and automation tools.
Understanding of OSS/BSS integration, service activation workflows, inventory systems, and order-driven provisioning.
Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles, including observability, reliability targets, incident management, toil reduction, automation, capacity planning, and operational readiness.
Experience creating or maintaining dashboards, alerts, KPIs, and health checks for production platforms.
Ability to use logs, metrics, packet captures, platform telemetry, monitoring systems, and operational data to troubleshoot complex production issues.
Experience improving reliability and reducing operational risk in high-availability production environments.
Ability to contribute to complex technical investigations across multiple platforms, teams, vendors, and network domains.
Strong documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Preferred Skills
Experience with platforms such as Nokia Motive/IMPACT, Incognito, Axiros, Friendly ACS, Calix, Adtran, Cisco, Casa, Harmonic, CommScope, or similar.
Knowledge of DOCSIS provisioning flows including DHCP, TFTP, ToD, config files, CMTS registration, service flows, and modem lifecycle states.
Knowledge of fiber ONT provisioning using OMCI, OLT service profiles, line profiles, service profiles, and activation workflows.
Experience with Wi-Fi gateway management, mesh platforms, remote diagnostics, device telemetry, and customer-care tools.
Experience creating dashboards, alarms, KPIs, and operational reporting for provisioning and device management platforms.
Scripting and automation experience with Python, Bash, SQL, REST APIs, Ansible, Git, CI/CD, or workflow automation platforms.
Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Elastic, Datadog, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, OpenTelemetry, or similar.
Experience with SRE practices such as SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, synthetic monitoring, post-incident reviews, toil reduction, and automated remediation.
Experience with high-availability design, disaster recovery testing, capacity modeling, performance tuning, and production readiness reviews.
Experience building automation for incident response, health validation, service restoration, configuration audits, or compliance reporting.
Experience supporting large-scale firmware deployments, staged rollouts, rollback plans, and production change management.
Experience working with NOC, field operations, customer care, vendors, architecture, security, product, and OSS/BSS teams.
Familiarity with security best practices related to device management, credential handling, ACS access, API integrations, and management-plane exposure