Skype Microwave Design Engineer

Skype interview for Microwave Design Engineer in Denver CO

Contract position.

• Perform Microwave planning and design task in a highly complex microwave engineering and backhaul network
• Guide and support vendor in planning, design, development and optimization efforts of a microwave network; including TDM and IP/MPLS backhaul network as per specified design rules and topology guidelines
• Design and document statewide complex microwave links and topology for existing and new sites
• Review LOS studies, site visits as necessary, creating augments in state network working with field technicians and creating MW RFDS, CIQ, and BOMs
• Path Loss v5.1, Link Planner and Google Earth experience is required
• Microsoft office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, MySQL, Perl/Python) tools experience
• Planet design experience beneficial but not required
• RF planning and dimensioning: routing and microwave path analysis based on diverse maps or terrain databases, radio path calculations and antenna sizing, frequency planning
• Solid understanding in network topologies like, Linear backbones, Ring, Mesh
• Capacity/Traffic planning of transport network backhaul like, SONET/SDH, T3/DS3, T1/DS1, DSOs and cutovers
• Plan and build VRF’s to migrate TDM traffic to IP/MPLS with knowledge of OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, MPLS, VRFs, VPNs, Tunnels (L2TP, L3TP), BGP, QoS (RFC 2544)
• Ensure timing and synchronization across TDM and IP networks (IEEE 1588, RFC 1305)
• Experience configuring and deploying Avait Microwave Radios, routers, switches and firewalls in an MPLS network environment