Role: Senior Field Engineer
Location: Seattle, WA (will be traveling to local sites within Seattle (client covers costs of travel)
This position will require the ability to travel globally up to 100% but will most likely be local in your area.
Duration: 6+ month extendable contract
Role Overview
- Looking for Sr. Field Engineers – Engineer with extensive networking integration experience and troubleshooting, extensive wiring experience, cable experience (Infrastructure cabling) know how to do it and how to approach it
- Wireless experience to deployment designing and troubleshooting
- Experience with Ekhau or Hamina is required
- Willing to travel within the US stores as needed
- Lead a variety of projects for our customers; across data center, enterprise and retail space ensuring all scope is completed and deliverables acquired on time
- Pull and terminate Cat6/6a and various fibre structured cabling systems
- Rack and stack network devices, decommission old devices and patch cables
- Deploy Fully Built Racks into Datacenters and other environments. Installing all cross connect cabling as required.
- Install Wireless Access Points, terminate, test and dress cabling to a high standard.
- Work with local partners or internal field engineers on more complex projects
- Mentor/Train newer colleagues so that they can execute effectively on their own and with other partners.
- Act as trusted advisor onsite ensuring customer standards and SE&I standards are maintained and exceeded.
- Provide lessons learned after projects with a view to raising the quality of the team’s execution.
- Provide redline documentation updates to wider engineering team for review to ensure documentation is up to date and accurate.
- Provide accurate As-Built documentation after projects that require them to aid CAD team in delivering final documentation to customer.
- Be comfortable using internal WWT Tools to access supply chain data and understand where to escalate when there are issues or gaps.
- Be hungry to expand your knowledge on core network technologies, including routing and switching, WIFI, firewalls, compute, storage, AV, power and cabling.
- Be prepared to travel to customer sites regularly.
Skills / Experience required:
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in the Field deploying infrastructure projects for large
enterprise customers for a VAR or SI.
• Cabling certification desirable - CNCI, BTEC, City & Guilds or BICSI
• Proficient in the use and understanding of copper and fibre testing equipment, including OTDR, fluke, network analyser and wire map
• Ability to read and interpret MOPs, Cable Run Lists, Patch Plans and schematics
• Excellent ability to interpret impact of network changes.
• Deep experience in the installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting infrastructure
components. . Be adept at fault finding and troubleshooting in high pressure, mission critical environments.
• Knowledge of how to read and analyze wireless survey results (Ekahau, Airmagnet, Hamina etc) & reports as well as how to correctly advise changes to resolve signal issues
and anomalies.
• Demonstrated experience of logical configuration –install firmware, push configurations,
make configuration changes and troubleshoot using CLI & GUI
• Strong customer facing skills.
• Strong practical skills.
• CCNA/CWNA or demonstratable knowledge preferred.
