Description
Wi-Fi Engineer
Flint is a leader in the wireless industry and is seeking a Wi-Fi Engineer to join the design team to institute design & implementation plans for new works.
Role Description
- Tenaciously manage the design of wireless and Proxy environments to ensure they will operate at peak performance levels through proactive monitoring/tuning
- Site Surveys and Wi-Fi planning
- Design distribution networks connected by fibre to deploy PoE Switches within 100m (the useable length of Ethernet cable) of desired AP locations
- Complete understanding of Wi-Fi network components & wireless network architectural configurations
- Experience of designing and deploying outdoor rural and urban Wi-Fi
- Point-to-Point backhaul
- Design & deployment of Mounting APs to street furniture (lamp-posts etc)
- Consult with other technology support groups as part of problem resolution efforts
- Ensure compliance with departmental and enterprise security configuration standards (includes security vulnerability assessment, mitigation planning and implementation)
- Create and/or maintain standard documentation, diagrams and workflow documents
- Southern Africa Travel maybe required to customer sites
Essential
- Experience of designing, implementing and troubleshooting complex Wi-Fi networks in challenging environments
- Experience of working with Tier 1 Wi-Fi platforms: eg Cisco
Desirable
- CCNA
- CWNA
- Experience of virtualised environments: eg Hypervisor
- Experience of Access gateways, IPSec, GRE, L2TPv3, etc;
- An understanding of the design of Trenches & Underground Chambers for ducting, cabling and fibre installation
- An appreciation for Street cabinet design.