End-User Hardware Engineer(Duluth)

AT&T - COLUMBIA, Maryland

Don't miss this opportunity to join the company recognized by Fortune magazine as the World's Most Admired Telecommunications Company and ranked #4 on DiversityInc's list of 2011 Top 50 Companies for Diversity.  

 

As the largest communications company in the world, more than 120 million customers count on us every day to deliver the wireless, Internet, data and advertising services that fuel their businesses and connect them to their world. You will find yourself connecting communications and technology with opportunities that will take you to places you never imagined.

You don't have to be a tech whiz to join AT&T. It takes more than technology to keep us ahead of the curve, and thanks to our teams of legal/operations, marketing and finance whizzes, we do just that. Every day, each works to ensure the success of the company while they advance their own careers.

 

What does it take to join us? We demand exceptional skills in your discipline and a real dedication to being the best.

After all, we're asked to keep AT&T profitable and on the cutting edge, and at the same time, build on more than a century of innovation and success. We are a world leader in communications and entertainment, and we plan to keep on growing.

 

Job Description:  Analyze hardware specifications and system/subsystem requirements to conceive and document a practical design for hardware components to include servers, network devices, transmission media, storage devices, user interface devices, and special processors; Prepare functional requirements and specifications for hardware acquisitions; Ensure that problems with operational hardware have been properly identified and solutions will satisfy the user’s requirements; Assist with preparing installation guides, field test procedures, and troubleshooting guides.

Responsibilities Include:

1.    Providing hardware engineering expertise to analyze complex hardware systems, hardware design, architecture, network design, and other technical hardware issues.

2.    Providing hardware maintenance support, both preventative and remedial.

3.    Deploying, Installing, and implementing hardware. 

4.    Preparing specifications for hardware by analyzing documented and derived system requirements.

5.    Conducting site surveys.

6.    Preparing engineering plans and site Technical Design Packages.

7.    Configuring (and documents configuration of) computers, networking devices, and various peripheral equipment. Preparing site installations and test reports.

8.    Ensuring that problems have been properly identified and solutions will satisfy the user’s requirements.

9.    Providing specific input to the hardware components of system design to include end-user devices, servers, networking devices, data storage devices, and specialized processors.

Required Skills, Experience, and Education:    Twenty (20) years of experience as a HE analyzing complex hardware systems for SIGINT solutions is required. Bachelor’s degree in Communications Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Five (5) years of additional hardware engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. Must have excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills. They coordinate with team members – those in project management, security, asset management, customer service or help desk departments – to solve problems and manage projects. Conflict resolution, analytical, and decision-making skills are crucial to the position as well.

 

Required Clearance:  Candidate must have a TS/SCI polygraph clearance

Desired:  CompTIA A or MTA

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Posted: 30+ days ago

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