Wireless Network Engineer

Job Description

• Candidates need to be well-versed in wireless equipment, wireless LAN (WLAN), WAN standards, design, and protocols.
• Devise, plan, deploy, and improve wireless networks from the beginning to implementation by collaborating with vendors, managers, and network engineers.
• Design and implement WLANs and other wireless networks.
• Understand client requirements to be able to cater to their appropriate needs.
• Manage firewalls, such as Palo Alto, Juniper or Cisco ASA.
• Handhold other in-house engineers to train them on wireless technologies, besides guiding other non-technical people.
• Use tools to evaluate to test and tweak wireless products, such as routers, switches, hubs, bridges, virtual private networks (VPNs), and network amplifiers, among others.
• Design and validate the performance, quality, and reliability of the RF link.
• Write manuals and document current network procedures.
• Have extensive knowledge of routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP).
• Make use of enterprise monitoring tools (SolarWinds and Splunk).
• Optimize network performance by supervising performance, addressing network problems and breakdowns, and partnering with network engineers to optimize the network.
• Develop and implement policies and classify and oversee access to protect network systems.
• Make sure that all equipment, including servers and the other network products, is well- connected.
• Devise and support radio frequencies (RF) link performance, reliability, and quality.
• Enable data and system protection by developing and maintaining mechanisms for backing up and retrieval.
• Collaborate with different teams to ensure the optimized performance of VoIP and other wireless telecommunication devices.
• Work with the security team to evaluate threats, troubleshoot issues, and comply with appropriate security configuration standards of their organizations.
• Design and deploy changes to the configurations of clients as per the applicable change management process.
• Proactively handle all network security solutions.