Senior Engineer, IP Core Transmission at 9mobile Nigeria

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Engineer, IP Core Transmission

Job: IRC4707
Location: Abuja
Employment Status: Permanent

Job Summary

• Plan and design nodes, sites & links within the national IP/MPLS Edge & Core Networks and ensure ongoing development aligns with the organization’s business plan.

Principal Functions  

• Produce network convergence hierarchy, topology, architecture and infrastructure redundancy plan for VPN service integration, regional service provider edge aggregation and IP Core Transport via the multi-service backbone.
• Interface with Transmission specialists and Topology for planning of optic (DWDM) backbone connectivity, capacity planning and allocation for efficient transport of all internal and external data traffic.
• Plan, design and optimize routing & transport technologies for provider EDGE aggregation and core transport network integration and verify requests, justify needs and classify all requested networks and services for MPLS VPN integration.
• Plan, deploy and evolve Quality of Service techniques at the network Edge and in the MPLS core network.
• Plan all backbone integration events, issue work orders and control project processes for capacity expansion, node integration and/or new service introduction.
• Conduct weekly& monthly network performance monitoring, trend analyses, capacity planning and expansion in line with network growth trends and increase in traffic.
• Develop and evolve IP addressing, naming and numbering formats of all network nodes and elements in the IP/MPLS backbone.
• Produce and evolve designs for integration and extension of IP/MPLS edge functionality to the campus LAN Core at all IP Backbone locations.
• Plan schedule and conduct site visits and surveys for accurate and effective network design, dimensioning and integration planning.
• Assist in network capacity planning, network disaster recovery planning, Network synchronization planning, contact management, project management, SLA (Service-level agreements specifications)
• Provide transport dimensioning input towards core strategies.
• Provide input towards architectural and topology plans of the entire core network.
• Help monitor technology evolution and match vendor strategy.
• Evaluate cost benefit of media technologies.
• Perform other duties as instructed by the Manager, IP Planning & Enterprise Solution.

Educational Requirements

• First Degree or its equivalent in Electrical Engineering
• Minimum of 4 years relevant work experience
• Cisco Certification in Routing & Switching required (CCNP).

Knowledge:

• Telecommunications& Mobile Network Standards & Specifications
• IP Network design& Planning.

Skills:

• Problem Solving
• Communication
• Behaviour
• Passion forExcellence
• Integrity
• Empowering people
• Growing people
• Teamwork
• Customer Focus.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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