Hybrid Field Operations Engineer

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About the role

  • Onsite engineer delivering first-class customer support and technical solutions for Wifinity. Working with large-scale networks and ensuring installations meet design standards.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver first-class customer support, technical solutions, and commissioning of new or upgraded sites
  • Troubleshoot network and client device issues onsite, both technical and physical
  • Collaborate with Customer Service, Technical Support, and Installation teams to diagnose, resolve, and activate sites
  • Perform network performance analysis, compile reports, and respond to monitoring alerts
  • Conduct scheduled maintenance and respond to live break-fix faults in the field
  • Carry out wireless surveys, Wi-Fi optimisation, and support compliance with installation standards
  • Provide technical services for infrastructure installation (cabling, fibre, cabinets, switches)
  • Commission remote sites onto the Wifinity core network, including circuits, radio links, fibre distribution, access points, and switches
  • Audit installation quality, acting as handover acceptance from installation teams
  • Create and execute test procedures (cabling, fibre, wireless coverage, product testing)
  • Investigate and repair faults, liaising with management team and relevant stakeholders
  • Keep accurate records of changes, ensuring new hardware/services are integrated into monitoring systems
  • Maintain workflow process reports and provide technical support
  • Ensure safe working conditions and compliance with Health & Safety standards
  • Train and support Field Engineering staff where appropriate
  • Onboard devices, create device groups/networks/zones, synchronise devices, and edit port configurations
  • Upgrade switch firmware locally and via remote protocols
  • Verify router firmware versions, DHCP leases, ARP entries, IP neighbours, IP pools, VLANs, and bridges
  • Run diagnostics (ping, IP scan) and configure DHCP options

Requirements

  • Full UK driving license
  • Previous experience in field engineer / field network engineer role
  • Willingness to travel and stay overnight across the UK to meet business needs
  • Be part of On Call Rota
  • Strong written, verbal, and ICT skills; able to maintain accurate systems and reports
  • Experience in client-facing roles with proven customer service ability
  • Flexible team player, able to work independently to deadlines
  • Be proficient in using netbox to locate site / device information, and identify services being used at a location
  • Experienced with Ruckus, Cambium and Mikrotik
  • Be able to configure switches via CLI including but not limited to creating switch stacks, tag VLANs, set PVIDs, and check MAC/LLDP tables
  • Be able to use cnmaestro to assign switches to groups, edit port configs, and check uptime/resource health
  • On the different network controllers be able to create WLAN/AP groups, registration rules, and move APs between zones
  • Proficiency with industry-standard testing tools (Fluke, OTDR, Ekahau, Wi-Fi analysis)
  • Experience with fibre splicing, cabling (internal/external), radio link installation, duct rodding, and telephony cabling
  • Have a good understanding of different technologies including 3G/4G/5G. GPON, ADSL/VDSL/PPPoE
  • Sound understanding of Wifinity services being deployed such as Home Networking, Onboarding journey, hotspot
  • Packet capture and analysis (Wireshark, Mikrotik)
  • Accessing and troubleshooting via Virtual Machines (Ubuntu, VM)
  • Creating Supermicro servers, loading ESXi, installing Mikrotik cloud-hosted router images, and configuring VM settings
  • CCNA-level networking knowledge

Benefits

  • Annual Leave Buy & Sell Scheme
  • Remote first working environment
  • Flexibility for a healthy work / life balance
  • Satisfactory completion of basic level DBS check

Job title

Field Operations Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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