Wireless Network Engineer
Bay Area, CA /
Sys Ops /
Permanent
/ Hybrid
Who is KDInfotech?
KDInfotech offers small and medium sized businesses solutions and support with all aspects of their infrastructure nationwide. We develop, manage, and partner on projects such as, application support, network administration, communication systems, and workstation performance. We like to call ourselves IT Partners that will come in and help in any situation necessary. As a fast growing successful company, we are redefining how tech support benefits our clients.
A Day in the Life of our Wireless Network Engineer
Our Wireless Network Engineer is responsible for supporting multiple clients on a daily basis with all aspects of logical infrastructure including but not limited to wired and wireless networks, routers, firewalls, and local/remote cloud. Challenges you might face in this role are distance support, organization and documentation. This role does provide continuous learning on new and legacy hardware and infrastructure services.
Who Should Apply
Our ideal candidate is hands-on, autonomous, and detail oriented. Strong written and verbal communication skills, strong project management and time management skills with a successful track record of engineering, delivering, and optimizing simple, scalable solutions. The desire and ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative environment with geographically diverse teams is essential.
Responsibilities
- Devise, plan, deploy, and improve wireless networks from the beginning to implementation by collaborating with vendors, managers, and network engineers.
- 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.
- Manage project tasks including wireless RF site surveys (both predictive and on-site), spectrum analysis, wireless network system installation and configuration, RF coverage verification, and/or network troubleshooting
- Identify, diagnose, and resolve wireless network communication issues
- Make recommendations for wireless network optimization, additions, and upgrades to meet the customer’s requirements
- Provide documentation so that any member of the network team can support and troubleshoot wireless network issues
- Optimize wireless network performance by addressing network problems and breakdowns, and partnering with network engineers to optimize the network
- Provide Root-Cause analysis, contributes to the knowledge base, and provides recommendations for continuous improvements to workflow, process and technology
- Work closely with our Network Engineers and Software Developers to automate network deployment and operations
- Drive operational excellence projects to improve network performance and reliability
- Troubleshoot complex problems and develop innovative solution
Qualifications and Skills
- 7 - 10 years of design, implementation, and operational experience in enterprise wireless networks
- Advanced skills in 2.4 and 5GHz analysis, mapping and troubleshooting in large environments
- Expert knowledge of LAN / WAN / WLAN, Wireless security such as WPA (2-3), RADIUS
- Deploying and managing monitoring systems (ie Zabbix, New Relic, Prometheus) preferred
- Diverse experience with Client VPN solutions. OpenVPN is preferred
- Knowledge of cloud networking technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Strong consultative skill set to include communications with varying levels of customer personnel as well as the ability to identify and help close new opportunities within existing clients
- Extensive knowledge of Meraki wireless networks highly preferred
- Experience with routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS,EIGRP) preferred
- Understanding of switching protocols (LLDP, LACP, MLAG)
- Experienced in network services (DHCP, DNS, SNMP)
- Multi-tasking and Time Management Skills; thrives in a fast-paced, changing environment where deadlines are essential
- JNCIS, JNCIP, JNCIE, CCNP, CCIE knowledge highly preferred
Why work for KDI?
KDI offers leading edge benefits to all of our team members that include but are not limited to;
Unlimited PTO and Sick days
PPO and HMO options for Medical Benefits
Dental and Vision Benefits
401k Match
Work from home flexibility
Cell phone reimbursement options
