What You Will Do
- Monitor & Optimize Network Health: Track radio link performance using signal levels, noise metrics, error counters, modulation states, and equipment alarms. Maintain performance baselines to spot and address issues early.
- Diagnose & Resolve Faults: Investigate interference, fading, antenna misalignment, feedline issues, power disruptions, and hardware failures. Partner with network operations to isolate RF problems from Ethernet or IP network faults.
- Commission New Infrastructure: Deploy and turn up new or replacement links using approved frequency, power, and hardware configurations. Validate both RF and traffic performance, ensuring all test results are thoroughly documented.
- Manage Changes & Maintenance: Plan and execute radio configuration updates and firmware upgrades. Ensure strict adherence to change management-including approvals, backups, rollback plans, and post-change verification-while coordinating maintenance windows with operations.
- Coordinate Field Operations: Direct field technicians, contractors, and vendors on site access, antenna alignments, troubleshooting, and hardware replacements. Drive incidents efficiently from initial diagnosis through repair and final verification.
- Maintain Documentation & Improve Reliability: Keep link inventories, frequency plans, configurations, performance logs, and operational runbooks up to date. Continuously refine monitoring tools to eliminate recurring faults.
What You Bring
- Hands-On Radio Experience: Proven background operating and troubleshooting production radio systems, ideally point-to-point microwave links or carrier telecom networks.
- Solid RF Fundamentals: Practical understanding of link budgets, antennas, polarization, signal levels, modulation, propagation, and interference mitigation.
- Diagnostic & Testing Skills: Comfort navigating radio management interfaces and monitoring platforms. Ability to interpret equipment diagnostics, RF measurements, and spectrum analyzer traces to pinpoint root causes.
- Networking & Systems Knowledge: Working familiarity with Ethernet, IP networking, and basic Linux utilities, paired with the ability to connect physical RF symptoms to broader customer or service impacts.
- Strong Communication & Process Discipline: Clear, concise documentation habits and the ability to communicate effectively with field teams and peers. Strict adherence to site access and change control procedures, knowing when and how to escalate issues with actionable evidence.
Nice to Have
- Advanced RF Technologies: Experience with microwave and millimeter-wave radios, XPIC, adaptive modulation, and protection or diversity schemes.
- Specialized Radio & Spectrum Work: Background in HF or long-distance radio systems, spectrum monitoring, or complex interference hunting.
- Automation & Field Coordination: Familiarity with Python or Bash scripting, SNMP telemetry, and coordinating maintenance at tower or remote sites.
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