Senior Systems Engineer - Systems Design & Implementation

Motorola Solutions•Flowood, MS

6h•$105,000 - $120,000•Remote

About The Position

Overview: The Sr Staff Engineer will be responsible for the public safety design and implementation of solutions for Motorola’s ASTRO 25 and adjacent technologies for State and Local government agencies. We are looking for Engineers who are energized by delivering solutions that truly make a difference.Note: This is a remote position with travel (25-50%) to support projects in T4W sub territory. Engineer of Record Project Responsibilities: The Sr Staff Engineer will work with a field team of Project Management, Systems Engineers, System Technologists, Construction Managers, and Customer Service Managers, and will be responsible for leading technical aspects of the assigned project until system acceptance. This involves: Design and implementation of the radio network including infrastructure, subscribers, mobile backhaul and WAN and CEN networks. High level of customer and consultant interaction involving customer design reviews, customer witnessed staging and acceptance testing events, coverage acceptance testing, live system upgrades, and troubleshooting efforts. System buildout, configuration and acceptance testing in both lab staging and field environments Radio coverage testing, frequency analysis and interference mitigation Radio system licensing (FCC/Industry) Preparation of system fleet map, encryption and radio programming templates Complete system documentation Live system cutovers and upgrades

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering or technical discipline and 5+ years of engineering or technical experience OR 8 years of engineering or technical experience
Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required.
Radio Frequency Engineering principles
Land / Mobile Radio Engineering principles
RFDS principles to include antenna and cable selection, transmit combiners, receive multi-couplers, and lightning protection systems.
P25 Land Mobile Radio terminology and two-way subscriber radio provisioning methods.
Servers and related systems to include: VMware ESXI, Linux, and Microsoft operating systems.
Construction of remote communication sites to include: site selection, grounding, compound development, tower and shelter requirements.
Fortinet and Juniper firewalls, Nokia 7705 series routers, Juniper SRX/MX (Junos) series routers, HP/Aruba and Juniper switches
Remote access using SSH, SCP, SFTP, RDP
Knowledge with point-to-point Microwave systems, Microwave RF & Network design
FCC licensing and frequency search
Software applications integration, Application Protocol Interfaces (API) concepts, computer operating systems, and the OSI model.
Networking protocols and devices including OSPF, ISIS, BGP, MPLS, SIP, RTP, SNMP, NAT, routers, switches, and stateful packet firewalls.
Knowledge of physical layer such as fiber, copper, and microwave.
Works collaboratively and builds relationships with other colleagues, customers, and third party service professionals.
Self-motivated, good written and oral communication skills, and strong interpersonal skills
Travel Requirements 25-50%

Nice To Haves

Experience with Motorola ASTRO 25 architecture is a plus.
Certifications a plus through CompTIA Network+, Juniper JNCIA-Junos, Nokia NRS1, CCNA or similar a plus.

Responsibilities

Design and implementation of the radio network including infrastructure, subscribers, mobile backhaul and WAN and CEN networks.
High level of customer and consultant interaction involving customer design reviews, customer witnessed staging and acceptance testing events, coverage acceptance testing, live system upgrades, and troubleshooting efforts.
System buildout, configuration and acceptance testing in both lab staging and field environments
Radio coverage testing, frequency analysis and interference mitigation
Radio system licensing (FCC/Industry)
Preparation of system fleet map, encryption and radio programming templates
Complete system documentation
Live system cutovers and upgrades