Optical Fibre Transport Design Manager at Airtel Nigeria

Airtel Nigeria (Airtel Networks Limited) is a leading telecommunications services provider in Nigeria headquartered in Lagos, the commercial nerve-centre of Nigeria. The telco ranks amongst the top four mobile service providers in terms of subscribers with a customer base of more than 39.8 million. The company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce and enterprise services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Optical Fibre Transport Design Manager

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• This is a vital position to support design & planning of network unit and providing technical solutions for connecting cell sites and enterprise customer locations for excellent customer experience.
• This person will be interacting with the Partners’ teams’ very extensively. Robust, flexible and state of art fiber and microwave transmission network planning & delivery is the essence of the role.

Key Responsibilities
Fiber network design & planning:

• Study the new site’s & Node’s requirements and prepare connectivity plan.
• Study traffic pattern / growth and plan capacity expansion accordingly to meet the business requirement specially data growth.
• Monthly study the utilization of fiber network and take necessary steps to groom the traffic for effective capacity utilization and remove bottle necks.
• Closely interact with IP & Core network planning & operations team to meet the requirements of MPLS / MPBN network.
• Ensure all networks are scalable and flexible to accommodate new sites / nodes, interfaces, etc.

Redundancy & ASON protection design:

• Analyse and correct any frequency interference cases as & when reported.

Microwave network Design & Planning:

• Preparation of AOP & budget for capex and opex for fiber network.
• IP Network design & Planning.

Regulatory Compliance:

• Plan for fiber connectivity to all RNC, BSC, and switch locations with minimum 3 paths.
• BoQ preparations & validation.
• Preparing RFP & technical specification.

Good Technical Knowledge:

• Close interactions with internal departments like Supply Chain, Finance, deployment, and operations.
• Bandwidth and capacity planning & management.
• Project Plan preparations, progress monitoring and tracking for Fiber project.
• Day to day monitoring of KPIs of transmission network to ensure that the reliability is as good as it was planned.
• MIS for senior management.
• Regular meetings with partners.

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering.
• Sound knowledge of fiber optics network for Mobile & Enterprise Network - Planning.
• Analytical and Presentation skills.

Required Experience & Skillset:

• 5 - 7 years relevant experience in planning of transmission networks domain specially in Fiber optics.
• Ability to manage an outsourcing partner to effectively deliver on SLAs.
• Impeccable integrity and character.
• Go-getter.
• Logical decision-making abilities.
• Flexible and dedicated.
• Ability to innovate and deliver value to business.

How to Apply
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