Integration Engineer

Integration Engineer

Description

AR99 – Integration Engineer

Location: Hemel Hempstead

Salary: £39,000 – £47,000

Overview:

First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Integration Engineer on behalf of one of our clients. This role requires extensive travel and will be 70% field based and 30% office based.

The job holder will provide engineering management of IP data networks to ensure cost effective, reliable systems that perform to customer requirements, and 3rd line technical support on a range of IP, networking and integration issues.

Our clients Strongly encourages applications from ex-military personnel however, all candidates will be considered.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Add/Move/Change implementations on the Customer Elements (CE) network.
• Supporting third party suppliers and customers during fault diagnostics for system integration problems and providing technical guidance to identify resolutions.
• System integration planning and management. Working with internal and external component suppliers to generate system integration test and implementation plans.
• Implementation of strategic plans for integration and testing services, including the interpretation of the overall product performance to ensure system requirements are defined and met.
• Verification that control room services are ready for customer testing.
• Ensuring security integrity of the CE network.
• Providing technical guidance on the viability of integration proposals and their financial impact.
• Conducting feasibility analysis for interface development, configuration, testing and risk assessment.
• Management and implementation of integration delivery plans and schedule.
• Only undertake tasks for which they have sufficient competence, equipment and the other resources to complete the task safely.
• To utilise, protect and maintain any equipment or protective device supplied to complete the task in a safe and efficient manner.
• Comply with the procedures described in the safe system of work and any relevant risk assessments produced for the activity.
• Undertake suitable / sufficient on site risk assessments and, put in adequate control measures or raise with line manager.
• Report to line management any shortfall in safety precautions being implemented, or for any issues arising from the work being undertaken.
• In the case of serious and imminent danger, to stop the work at a suitable safe point and condition; reporting, as soon as is reasonably practicable, to others who may be affected by the unsafe situation.
• Report immediately (or when safe and practicable) any accident/incident or near miss incident.
• To ensure all Environmental initiatives and all Environmental policy and procedures are adhered to.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Cisco CCNP certification or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a communications engineering environment.
• Excellent technical knowledge of IP networks / addressing and connection rules.
• Excellent technical knowledge of IP network fault diagnosis and applicable tools.
• Technical awareness and experience of designing, developing and/or implementing integration and testing methodologies, and resolution of sub-system integration issues with suppliers and customers.
• Excellent attention to detail and good, accurate numerical and logical skills.
• Understanding of software development and testing.

Desirable:

• Previous experience of TETRA and other mobile network technologies.
• Understanding of telephony systems.
• Understanding of IT data systems for storage and retrieval.
• Technical knowledge of company networks, and operation of the external interfaces used for integration of third party supplied IP equipment.
• Knowledge of ITIL Service Management principles.

Location: Hemel Hempstead

Salary: £39,000 – £47,000