Wireless Network Engineer

Infrastructure Engineer / Spectrum Engineer

Summary:

The Engineer is responsible for the planning, design, configuration, implementation, testing and transition to steady state support of Infrastructure such as Wireless network, and network applications across the enterprise. Engineer will partner with peer engineering teams on best practices, process, standards, and configuration management. The Engineer evaluates vendor supplied hardware, components, and software packages for fit and performance and makes recommendations to IT management. This individual modifies and/or debugs vendor-supplied utilities and packages. The Engineer maintains technical documentation for the wireless and Spectrum network, systems, and network applications. The Engineer diagnoses, isolates and de-bugs hardware and software problems and performs problem resolution. The role is responsible for delivering solutions that are stable, secure, scalable, and cost effective, as well as providing escalation support to the administrators.

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Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline).

- Proven experience as a Wireless Engineer or similar role.

- In-depth knowledge of wireless networking protocols (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax), standards, and security.

- Familiarity with wireless LAN controllers and related infrastructure.

- Experience with network monitoring and diagnostic tools.

- Strong understanding of network design principles and best practices.

- Relevant certifications (e.g., CCNA Wireless, CWNA, CWSP) are a plus.

- 5 or more years of work experience in an Infrastructure engineering role

- Deep experience with design, implementation, configuration, tuning and optimization of technologies within client's landscape.

- Proven problem-solving skills.

- Recommend software revisions for existing hardware and software as appropriate.

- Strong attention to detail

- Strong team player who can work across multiple functions and disciplines.

- Capability to understand client's application portfolio as well as how the different systems contribute to daily business operations.

- ITIL Foundation certified.

Preferred Qualifications

- Possess professional level industry certification(s) Not required.

- 3 or more years of expert level experience in Infrastructure engineering as it relates to the hardware and software components that align to technologies supported at Southern Glazers

- Strong ability to create, read, analyze, and interpret technical diagrams and written procedures.

- Strong ability to arrange processes or data in order of patterns specific to policies, processes or system requirements.

- Deep expertise to analyze and solve problems, think outside of the box and grasp technical concepts.

- Strong ability to combine information or data to find relationships among seemingly unrelated events.

- Provide accurate and timely updates to work tickets, incidents, and outages.

- ITIL Foundation certified.

- Ability to lead small teams to complete assigned deliverables.

Specialized Skills and Technologies

Network / Wireless / Spectrum

Expert knowledge of WLAN architecture, specifically Cisco WLC and Aruba AVC Network WLAN solutions.

In-depth understanding of TCP/IP networking, ports, protocols, and the OSI model.

Extensive knowledge of WLAN and mobile networking concepts, platforms, management tools, and application of each

Duties and Responsibilities

General

- Stay current on supported technologies through various training opportunities.

- Identify opportunities to enhance processes, procedures and policies relating to engineering function.

- Travel up to 20%

- Coach and mentor others.

- Participate in 24 x 7 on call rotation.

- Physical demands with activity or condition may include occasional to rare amount of time include walking, bending, reaching, standing, and stooping.

- Strong team player, team communication is key to this role, ensuring management and peers are always updated on work progress,

- Constantly reviewing scope of work and assigned tasks with team members and team leaders.

- Candidate should be able to adapt to business and team demands, shifting directly and reprioritization as required.

- Availability to travel as needed to support the team and business directions at least 20%.

Network / Wireless

- Expertise with Cisco, Aruba, Cellular network engineering

- Ability to perform capacity and resource planning, assess risks, and recommend, design, and implement plans for network systems.

- Ability to troubleshoot to identify and correct malfunctions and help solve

multi-faceted problems.

- Working knowledge of network security systems, applications, procedures, and techniques

- Experience in telecommunications and network engineering and with telecommunications, network hardware and software components that match the technologies within client's infrastructure landscape.

- Good verbal/written communication skills

- Strong attention to detail

- Ability to analyze and solve problems.

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Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline).

- Proven experience as a Wireless Engineer or similar role.

- In-depth knowledge of wireless networking protocols (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax), standards, and security.

- Familiarity with wireless LAN controllers and related infrastructure.

- Experience with network monitoring and diagnostic tools.

- Strong understanding of network design principles and best practices.

- Relevant certifications (e.g., CCNA Wireless, CWNA, CWSP) are a plus.

- 5 or more years of work experience in an Infrastructure engineering role

- Deep experience with design, implementation, configuration, tuning and optimization of technologies within client's landscape.

- Proven problem-solving skills.

- Recommend software revisions for existing hardware and software as appropriate.

- Strong attention to detail

- Strong team player who can work across multiple functions and disciplines.

- Capability to understand client's application portfolio as well as how the different systems contribute to daily business operations.

- ITIL Foundation certified.

Preferred Qualifications

- Possess professional level industry certification(s) Not required.

- 3 or more years of expert level experience in Infrastructure engineering as it relates to the hardware and software components that align to technologies supported at Southern Glazers

- Strong ability to create, read, analyze, and interpret technical diagrams and written procedures.

- Strong ability to arrange processes or data in order of patterns specific to policies, processes or system requirements.

- Deep expertise to analyze and solve problems, think outside of the box and grasp technical concepts.

- Strong ability to combine information or data to find relationships among seemingly unrelated events.

- Provide accurate and timely updates to work tickets, incidents, and outages.

- ITIL Foundation certified.

- Ability to lead small teams to complete assigned deliverables.

Specialized Skills and Technologies

Network / Wireless / Spectrum

Expert knowledge of WLAN architecture, specifically Cisco WLC and Aruba AVC Network WLAN solutions.

In-depth understanding of TCP/IP networking, ports, protocols, and the OSI model.

Extensive knowledge of WLAN and mobile networking concepts, platforms, management tools, and application of each

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Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline).

- Proven experience as a Wireless Engineer or similar role.

- In-depth knowledge of wireless networking protocols (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax), standards, and security.

- Familiarity with wireless LAN controllers and related infrastructure.

- Experience with network monitoring and diagnostic tools.

- Strong understanding of network design principles and best practices.

- Relevant certifications (e.g., CCNA Wireless, CWNA, CWSP) are a plus.

- 5 or more years of work experience in an Infrastructure engineering role

- Deep experience with design, implementation, configuration, tuning and optimization of technologies within client's landscape.

- Proven problem-solving skills.

- Recommend software revisions for existing hardware and software as appropriate.

- Strong attention to detail