Transmission Engineer at Airtel

Job Purpose

• This is a vital position to support network unit to do planning and providing technical solutions for connecting cell sites and enterprise customer locations.
• This person will interact 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 Accountabilities
Microwave network Design & Planning:

• Design to microwave access & BB network to meet required link / network reliability criteria.

Fiber network design & planning:

• Plan & design to expand the existing fiber network to build resilience in the network.
• Last mile solution design for enterprise customers 

Redundancy & protection design-:

• Design network redundancy & reliability better than 99.999%. 

Regulatory Compliance:

• Sound knowledge of local regulatory requirements regarding frequency spectrum use. 

Skills & Knowledge

• 1- 3 years relevant experience in planning of transmission networks domain
• Bachelor of Engineering Degree
• Proven hands-on network engineering experience
• CCNA, or higher (CCNP, CCIE /or  CISSP highly valued)
• Good understanding of networking protocols (e.g., IPSEC, HSRP, BGP, OSPF, 802.11, QoS)
• Good understanding of the OSI or TCP/IP model
• Must have good knowledge of transmission technologies like microwave, Fiber networks, DWDM, SPDH/SDH, ASON, VSAT, MPLS, Data communications, etc.  
• Sound knowledge of Transmission of Mobile & Enterprise Network - Planning
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, network diagnostic and network analytical tools
• Proficiency in tools like google earth, MapInfo, pathloss4/5 and excel
• Analytical and Presentation skills