Vibhuti Khand in Lucknow's Gomti Nagar area has a Junior 5G Network Engineer opening, full time, on site, with a telecom infrastructure team supporting network expansion in the region. Six months of experience is the expectation, enough to have already gotten hands-on with real network hardware in some capacity, even during an internship or a hands-on training program.
The role covers configuring and maintaining network hardware, troubleshooting connectivity issues as they're reported, monitoring network performance and security, and helping plan capacity for future growth. As a junior engineer, expect close supervision on anything touching live infrastructure at first, with independence growing as your track record on smaller, lower-risk tasks builds trust with the senior team.
Required skills are 5G network architecture fundamentals, basic RF planning concepts, and a solid understanding of core network protocols. A bachelor's degree in electronics, computer science, or a related field is expected, along with a working understanding of networking protocols, routing, and infrastructure management, with hands-on tool exposure preferred but not mandatory for this entry-level seat.
Gomti Nagar has become one of Lucknow's more established IT and business districts, and the network this team supports is in an active expansion phase, giving a junior engineer real exposure to greenfield rollout work rather than only maintenance of an already-mature network.
Naukri Mitra has listed a handful of telecom roles from this employer, and junior engineers who've joined recently describe the field exposure as more hands-on than they expected, with actual site visits happening within the first month rather than being confined to a classroom-style onboarding for an extended period first.
Interviews include a technical round on networking fundamentals and a discussion of any hands-on hardware experience from your background. Candidates who can speak concretely about a specific piece of equipment or a real troubleshooting scenario, even a small one, tend to interview better than those speaking only in general terms.
The broader Networking & Telecom team this role sits within has grown modestly over the past year, and a fair number of current mid-level staff started in a role similar to this one. That internal mobility is one of the more consistently mentioned reasons past hires give for staying beyond the first year rather than moving on once they've built up experience.
Drive tests happen on a rotating schedule, and junior engineers are expected to join at least one a week even before they're doing independent fieldwork, since reading a drive-test report well is a skill that takes longer to build than most people expect from just studying RF theory.
Field visits happen roughly twice a week for a junior engineer at this stage, split between shadowing site surveys and assisting with equipment checks, and the team has found that engineers who ask questions during those visits, rather than staying quiet and just observing, tend to build practical intuition noticeably faster.
Weekly team meetings walk through any incidents from the past week in detail, including near-misses that didn't cause a real outage but easily could have, and junior engineers are expected to contribute observations from their own site visits even before they're leading investigations independently.
The network team maintains a shared log of past drive-test findings across the region, and junior engineers are encouraged to review relevant past entries before their own site visits, since coverage issues in a given area sometimes have a documented history worth understanding before proposing a fix.
This role is based at Vibhuti Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow, pin code 226010, five days a week on site. Pay is up to ₹40,500 a month. The team hopes to fill this seat within four weeks.