Principal Engineer - Wireless - Empower national connectivity through innovative solutions (Previ...
29 days ago
Camberley
\n Principal Engineer - Wireless\n \n When you join our Engineering Team at Telent, you'll be empowered to innovate and drive common solutions, working closely with technical experts who are proud of the impact their work makes. Come join a high-performing team doing complex and critical work. Help build and keep the nation's critical infrastructure connected and protected 24/7. \n Reporting into the Head of Focal Engineering, the Principal Engineer will work on a number of exciting Wireless Design and Implementation projects for customers across England in the Education and Government sectors as well as others. \n This is a hybrid working role, with a requirement to travel to our customer sites on occasion. \n What youll do:\n \n • Define and drive the technical strategy for the design and implementation of enterprisegrade wireless network solutions across universities in England, leveraging Cisco and Juniper technologies to deliver secure, scalable, and highperformance connectivity.\n, • Act as the principal design authority, setting technical direction, standards, and best practices for campus wireless and wired infrastructure, ensuring alignment with university digital transformation objectives.\n, • Develop and review detailed lowlevel designs (LLDs), highlevel designs (HLDs), and implementation plans covering wireless coverage modelling, access layer design, security, and QoS.\n, • Serve as the senior technical authority (CCIE Expert) for Cisco and Juniper wireless and network solutions, providing design and implementation leadership across multiple university campuses.\n, • Lead complex technical problemsolving and escalation activities, applying deep expertise across routing, switching, wireless, and security domains.\n, • Provide architectural oversight and governance, ensuring all designs meet operational, security, and performance requirements while adhering to corporate and vendor standards.\n, • Provide expertlevel troubleshooting and optimisation for existing wireless deployments, using advanced diagnostic tools and methodologies.\n, • Support customer engagement and stakeholder communication, translating complex technical solutions into clear, outcomefocused discussions.\n, • Expertlevel knowledge of Cisco and Juniper wireless solutions, including Catalyst, Meraki, Mist, and Enterprise WLAN architectures.\n, • CCIElevel certification in Wireless or Enterprise Infrastructure.\n, • Advanced RF design, site survey, and spectrum analysis skills for largescale, highdensity environments.\n, • Handson experience with network monitoring, optimisation, and troubleshooting tools.\n, • Familiarity with higher education IT environments and related regulatory requirement is desirable.\n, • Car Allowance\n, • 34 days holiday, including public holidays, plus the option to buy or sell days annually OR 26 days holiday, plus public holidays, and the option to buy or sell days annually\n, • Company pension scheme\n, • A range of family friendly policies\n, • Occupational health support and wellbeing Portal\n