Wireless Spectrum Engineer

Position : Wireless Spectrum Engineer

Location : Miramar, FL(Hybrid) / Dallas, TX(Hybrid)

Duration : 6 months CTH

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.

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

multi-faceted problems.

Minimum Qualifications

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

Knowledge of Radio Access Networks, 5G, public and private LTE, and emerging mobile networking technologies

Experience utilizing (RF) site survey tools such as Ekahau, RF Scanners and Wireshark packet capture software

Strong knowledge of layer 2 switching and layer 3 routing protocols; including VLANs, 802.1w, OSPF, VRRP, VTP, STP, RSTP, Port security

Strong knowledge of network security including 802.1x, MAC Authentication, ACLs, RADIUS and Certificate of Authority (CA)