Capacity Planning Engineer at Airtel

Responsibilities

Design & Monitor UTRAN Interfaces.

• Design the UTRAN interfaces based on traffic forecast
• Monitor the traffic trend and ensure to keep system within the target utilization threshold
• Recommend cost effective solutions

Capacity Planning

• Follow up with core network and transport planning to ensure end-to-end capacity planning is maintained
• Ensure that utilization of all the technology layers is efficiently managed.
• Understand the HW and SW capabilities of the telecom equipment.
• Carry out capacity plan for special events and sudden traffic increase.

Technology evolution

• Ensure balanced traffic loading between different technologies
• Plan and design future-proof solutions.
• Apply insights from geo-location platform, Facebook and other sources to proactively forecast and plan network capacity.
• Maintain the HW and SW roadmaps tracker and ensure that capacity enhancement features are sourced and deployed at the right time.

Qualifications

Educational Qualifications 

• University degree in Electronic/Electrical, Computer or Telecommunication engineering
• Proven professional training in Telecommunications sector

Relevant Experience 

• 5 years of experience in 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G Radio Engineering
• Experience in automation is an added advantage
• Excellent in using excel and other Microsoft applications
• Hands-on experience operating performance management tools and dimensioning tools