Senior Engineer, IP Core Transmission

Educational Requirements

• First Degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering
  
• Three (3) to five (5) year relevant work experience
  
• Cisco Certification in Routing & Switching required (CCNP)
  

Experience, Skills & Competencies

Knowledge:

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

Skills:

• Problem Solving
  
• Communication
  

Behavior:

• Passion for Excellence
  
• Integrity
  
• Empowering people
  
• Growing people
  
• Team work
  
• Customer Focus
  

Educational Requirements

• First Degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering
  
• Three (3) to five (5) year relevant work experience
  
• Cisco Certification in Routing & Switching required (CCNP)
  

Experience, Skills & Competencies

Knowledge:

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

Skills:

• Problem Solving
  
• Communication
  

Behavior:

• Passion for Excellence
  
• Integrity
  
• Empowering people
  
• Growing people
  
• Team work
  
• Customer Focus
  

• 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 net work 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 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