Wireless Network Engineer (Remote)

Position: Wireless Network Engineer (Remote)
Location: Herndon, VA 20171 - Remote
Term: 7 months

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

Devise, plan, deploy, and improve wireless networks from the beginning to implementation by collaborating with vendors, managers, and network engineers.
Understand client requirements to be able to cater to their appropriate needs.
Manage firewalls, such as Juniper and FortiGate.
Handhold other in-house engineers to train them on wireless technologies, besides guiding other non-technical people.
Use tools to evaluate test 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.
Design and implement WLANs and other wireless networks.
Write manuals and document current network procedures.
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, are 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.
Make use of testing and diagnostic tools to assess and modify equipment.

Is this a good fit? (Requirements):

Knowledge of Aruba software/hardware suite (Aruba Central, Clear Pass, Mobility Master) and 802.1x authentication.
Extensive knowledge of routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP).
Ability to evaluate and configure WLAN devices to maintain security hardening (STIG) and vulnerability mitigation.