# Wireless Installation Engineer

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Eielson AFB, AK
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $107,744 - $126,500
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Wireless Installation Engineer provides technical leadership, oversight, and quality governance for all wireless (Wi-Fi) engineering, design, survey, and installation activities across global Air Force and Space Force modernization sites.

Responsibilities:

- Provide on-site supervision for wireless survey techs, installers, and subcontractor personnel

- Oversee end-to-end wireless lifecycle activities: predictive design, active/passive surveys, validation surveys, installation, configuration, tuning, and troubleshooting

- Ensure all wireless designs and implementation activities comply with DoW, Air Force, Space Force, and industry standards

- Review, validate, and approve predictive wireless designs, heatmaps, channel plans, AP placement, and performance modeling

- Validate survey data for accuracy, completeness, and adherence to program-specific survey guidelines

- Coordinate with the Site Implementation Lead on scheduling, resource management, risk identification, and daily task execution

- Collaborate with network engineers to ensure proper integration of Cisco 9800 wireless LAN controller (WLC) configurations with switching, routing, authentication, and security infrastructures

- Oversee quality assurance by inspecting installed APs, cabling, labeling, mounting, and wireless system configurations

- Ensure accurate documentation including RF designs, survey reports, as-builts, configuration files, and post-install validation

- Support troubleshooting and root cause analysis for wireless performance, coverage, security, and spectrum issues

- Coordinate with base communications teams, cybersecurity personnel, and Government stakeholders on wireless design and deployment requirements

- Develop status reports, contribute to briefings, and support weekly project meetings and stakeholder engagements

Requirements:

- 5+ years experience in wireless network engineering, WLAN design, wireless survey, or enterprise wireless deployment

- BS degree or additional years of experience in Wireless Engineering in lieu of degree

- Experience leading installation teams in complex environments

- Strong hands-on experience with predictive and validation wireless survey tools

- Strong familiarity with TIA/EIA wireless-relevant standards and cabling/pathway requirements

- Understanding of RF fundamentals, antenna types, power levels, interference sources, and spectrum analysis

- Experience integrating wireless systems into enterprise authentication and network security frameworks

- Experience managing subcontractor and field technicians in installation and survey operations

- Experience supporting modernization, upgrade, or large-scale deployment projects

- Active Secret clearance

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages

- 401K with company match

- Competitive pay and paid time off

- Full flex work weeks where possible

- Paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave

- Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance

## Skills

### Required
- Wireless Design
- Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)
- Wireless Networks
- Cisco 9800 wireless LAN controller (WLC)
- TIA/EIA wireless-relevant standards
- RF fundamentals
- antenna types
- power levels
- interference sources
- spectrum analysis

### Nice to have
- DoW or AF/SF network modernization experience
- Direct experience with Cisco or Aruba/HPE wireless infrastructure
- Experience conducting wireless validation surveys on secure or classified networks
- Previous experience in leading installation teams and working with low voltage cable vendors
- Security+ CE (required or 8140 equivalent)
- CWNA (Certified Wireless Network Administrator)
- CWDP, CWSP, or CWNE
- Ekahau ECSE (Design, Troubleshooting, or Advanced)
- Cisco Wireless (e.g., CCNA Wireless, CCNP Enterprise with Wireless specialization)

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