WiFi Engineering III

Job Description

We have a position for a WiFi Engineering III with one of our clients in Atlanta, GA for an initial contract duration of 7 months. No third party candidates considered for this position.

The WiFi Engineering, Wireless Engineer III will be primarily responsible for successfully planning and launching new products and services on our WiFi platform, while exceeding customer expectations for the experience on our WiFi services and maintaining a high level of reliability for our platform components.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert and lead the design, build and test activities with regards to new products, services, hardware, software and feature/functionality within our core wireless components including routers, switches, wireless LAN controllers and access points with minimal direction
• Clearly understand technical problems and define solutions to mitigate those problems
• Define solution test strategy, specific test cases, execute tests, revisit design as necessary and document results
• Methodically scope, troubleshoot, diagnose, and fix complex problems as required in high-scale service provider WiFi environments while minimizing customer impacts and outages
• Capture configurations, logs and packet captures as necessary for escalation to engineering peers or vendors and partners
• Partner with Operations team members to prepare low level designs, configurations and methods and procedures to gain operational perspective, including reliability, scalability, simplicity, and standardization and ensure success through launch of the change
• Partner with peer Engineering team members to gain in-depth understanding of proposed changes to hardware, software or configurations and implications
• Replicate production issues in staging lab environments along with traffic generators as necessary to test fixes and to regression test launches
• Assess and continually improve lab methods and procedures
• Define event engineering requirements, author methods and procedures to be executed on defined SNMP or syslog alarm conditions and validate test cases in lower environments
• Quickly understand preliminary product/platform concepts or high level designs and subsequently author technical requirements as necessary based on those understandings
• Translate high level engineering documentation into working configurations and test plans and enhancing areas with additional applicable data where necessary
• Participate in a scheduled on-call rotation
• Participate in planned maintenance activities during maintenance windows as needed