Core Network Planning Engineer at MTN Nigeria

MTN Nigeria - The leader in telecommunications in Nigeria, and a part of a diverse community in Africa and the Middle East, our brand is instantly recognisable. It is through our compelling brand that we are able to attract the right talents who we carefully nurture by continuously improving our employment offerings even beyond reward and recognition.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Core Network Planning Engineer

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Coordinating the efforts, inputs and outputs from many internal company departments, to ensure that the design and plan are carried out appropriately.
• Interface with Marketing, business development groups for new services and capacity planning
• The role might require a switch between the intelligent network and core network platforms
• Primary interface with vendors on technical issues
• Define the optimal network topology for the core network platforms for the connectivity of network elements to meet acceptable grade of service
• Execute prompt provisioning of network capacity for all the GSM/WCDMA/LTE NSS elements, features, protocols
• Responsible for designing and dimensioning of the core network and services, to meet the requirements of the RF nominal plan and subscriber growth forecast.
• Plan and design the implementation of future core network products
• Plan and design the network architecture to optimally serve the growth of the core network in terms of traffic, subscribers and value added service capacity
• Carry out feasibility studies for new products and produce a technical report
• Conduct analysis of network model outputs and traffic patterns to evaluate model and proffer solution if necessary.

Job Condition

• General MTNN working conditions

Experience & Training
Experience:

• 4+ years of experience in cellular industry
• Experience with GSM, TDMA, CDMA networks

Training:

• GSM Planning Switching
• GSM System Overview
• AXE System overview
• Statistics and traffic measurement
• GSM Advanced System Techniques
• GSM operation handling MSC/BSC
• GSM OSS statistics handling
• Signaling in the telecommunication network
• GSM/WCDMA node dimensioning
• RF overview
• Network monitoring application training
• Project management course
• MS Excel Course

Minimum qualification

• B.Sc.

Application Closing Date
11th June, 2015

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online