Field Operations Engineer - Kent

Wifinity; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Enhanced annual leave (25 days)

Remote-first working environment

Job summary

Wifinity is seeking a proactive field engineer to support customer sites within roughly a 50 mile radius of Maidstone. You will troubleshoot and commission sites, manage installations to design and company standards, and work with service teams to ensure customer satisfaction.

You will gain hands-on exposure to large-scale networks, fibre and wireless infrastructure, and a strong health and safety focus. A driving role with field visits across the UK is required.

Qualifications

• Full UK driving license.
• Experience in field engineer roles with customer-facing duties.
• Willingness to travel and stay away across the UK.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot onsite network and client device issues, technical and physical.
• Collaborate with service and installation teams to diagnose, resolve, and activate sites.
• Perform network performance analysis, compile reports, and respond to monitoring alerts.
• Carry out wireless surveys, Wi‑Fi optimisation, and ensure installation standards.

Skills

Excellent communication

Customer-facing

Problem-solving

Finisher

Tools

Ruckus

Cambium

Mikrotik

cnMaestro

Fluke

Ekahau

Wireshark

VMware ESXi

Mikrotik Cloud Hosted Router

Job description

The opportunity:

We are seeking a proactive engineer to be the face of Wifinity, supporting our customer sites across a territory which is roughly a 50 mile radius of Maidstone. You will deliver first-class customer support, technical solutions, and commissioning of new or upgraded sites, ensuring installations meet design and company standards. This role provides hands-on exposure to large-scale networks, infrastructure, and the commissioning process, directly supporting customer satisfaction and operational excellence.

About us:

Wifinity was founded in 2007 to solve a problem - our armed forces were struggling with reliable connectivity. While living in barracks, often in remote locations, ordering a landline and booking in an engineer just wasn’t an option.

And that problem isn’t exclusive to the military, either. Students living in University accommodation, families visiting holiday resorts, or living in shared accommodation and retirement communities.

Conventional home broadband doesn’t always work for them.

Wifinity is different. We offer the same benefits as traditional broadband, such as super-fast speeds, WiFi, and secure and private networks, but none of the downsides. We even offer Pay As You Go and flexible contracts, so customers only pay for what they need without hefty penalties or long contract terms.

We take the complexity out of connectivity.

Key areas of focus for this position:

• Troubleshoot network and client device issues onsite, both technical and physical.
• Collaborate with Customer Service, Technical Support, and Installation teams to diagnose, resolve, and activate sites.
• Perform network performance analysis, compile reports, and respond to monitoring alerts.
• Conduct scheduled maintenance and respond to live break-fix faults in the field.
• Carry out wireless surveys, Wi‑Fi optimisation, and support compliance with installation standards.
• Provide technical services for infrastructure installation (cabling, fibre, cabinets, switches).
• Commission remote sites onto the Wifinity core network, including circuits, radio links, fibre distribution, access points, andswitches
• Audit installation quality, acting as handover acceptance from installation teams.
• Create and execute test procedures (cabling, fibre, wireless coverage, product testing).
• Investigate and repair faults, liaisingwithmanagement teamand relevant stakeholders
• Keepaccuraterecords of changes, ensuring new hardware/services are integrated into monitoring systems.
• Maintain workflow process reports and provide technical support.
• Ensure safe working conditions and compliance with Health & Safety standards.
• Train and support Field Engineering staff whereappropriate.
• Onboard devices, create device groups/networks/zones, synchronise devices, and edit port configurations.
• Upgrade switch firmware locally and viaremote protocols.
• Verify router firmware versions, DHCP leases, ARP entries, IP neighbours, IP pools, VLANs, and bridges.
• Run diagnostics (ping, IP scan) and configure DHCP options.

About you:

• Adaptable, self-motivated, and thrive under pressure.
• Excellent communication and customer-facing skills.
• Strong initiative and problem-solving mindset.
• A “finisher” who refuses to leave jobs incomplete, withhigh standardsand expectations.

Requirements

• Full UK driving license.
• Previous experience infieldengineer / field network engineer role.
• Willingness to travel and stay overnight across the UKto meet business needs.
• Be part of On Call Rota
• Strong written, verbal, and ICT skills; able tomaintainaccuratesystems and reports.
• Experience in client-facing roles with proven customer service ability.
• Flexible team player, able to work independently to deadlines.

Technical Skills & Competencies

• Be proficient in usingnetboxtolocatesite / deviceinformation, andidentifyservices being used at a location.
• Experienced with Ruckus, Cambium andMikrotik
• Be able to configure switches via CLI including but not limited to creating switch stacks,tag VLANs, set PVIDs, and check MAC/LLDP tables.
• Be able to usecnmaestroto assign switches to groups, edit port configs, and check uptime/resource health.
• On the different networkcontrollersbe able to create WLAN/AP groups, registration rules, and move APs between zones.
• Proficiencywith industry-standard testing tools (Fluke, OTDR,Ekahau, Wi-Fi analysis).
• Experience with fibre splicing, cabling (internal/external), radio link installation, duct rodding, and telephony cabling.

Advanced Technical Skills

• Have a good understanding of different technologies including3G/4G/5G.GPON, ADSL/VDSL/PPPoE.
• Sound understanding ofWifinity servicesbeing deployed such asHome Networking, Onboarding journey, hotspot.
• Packet capture and analysis (Wireshark,Mikrotik).
• Accessing and troubleshooting via Virtual Machines (Ubuntu, VM).
• Creating Supermicro servers, loadingESXi, installingMikrotikcloud-hosted router images, and configuring VM settings.
• CCNA-level networking knowledge.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including an enhanced annual leave scheme starting at 25 days, with additional holiday entitlement awarded through length of service, alongside a remote-first working environment that gives our employees greater flexibility and supports a healthy work-life balance. Please be aware that the successful applicant to this role will receive an offer subject to the satisfactory completion of a basic DBS check.

• a competitive salary
• enhanced annual leave scheme starting at 25 days
• additional holiday entitlement awarded through length of service
• a remote-first working environment that gives our employees greater flexibility and supports a healthy work-life balance

At Wifinitywe are committed to providing a positive environment in which individuals do not encounter bullying or harassment on the basis of protected characteristics which are identified by law (including sexual harassment).We are committed to treating candidates and employees with courtesy, dignity and respect.

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