Wireless Network Engineer

TESTQ Technologies ,
Bournville, Birmingham, West Midlands

Overview

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. Employment Type: CONTRACTOR