Manager - Core Network Assurance at Airtel Nigeria

Airtel Nigeria (Airtel Networks Limited), a leading mobile telecommunication services provider in Nigeria and a member of Airtel Africa Group, is committed to providing innovative, exciting, affordable and quality mobile services to Nigerians, giving them the freedom to communicate, rise above their daily challenges and drive economic and social development. The company made history on August 5, 2001 by becoming the first telecoms operator to launch commercial GSM services in Nigeria and has scored a series of many "firsts" in the highly competitive Nigerian telecommunications market including the first to introduce toll-free 24-hour customer care; first to launch service in all the six geo-political zones in the country; first to introduce affordable recharge denominations; first to introduce monthly free SMS and first to introduce monthly airtime bonus.

A truly innovative company, Airtel has showed resilience, charting new paths in meeting the demands and needs of its esteemed stakeholders and enhancing distribution as well as providing affordable services to empower more Nigerians.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Manager - Core Network Assurance

Location: Lagos

Job Purpose

• Need to maximize the benefits in an MS setup and provide an active real-time oversight to the heart-beat of the Network Operation Centre in the MS Operation environment led to the setting-up of Network Assurance Centre (NAC).
• The Network Assurance will be responsible for analysis of NOC KPIs and drive improvement in the Partner NOC for optimal benefit and provide service assurance.

Key Accountabilities
Core (CS/PS):

• Assurance of NOC Alarm handling for active elements by shadowing and monitoring partner
• Assurance of Trouble Tickets (TT) for active elements. Monitor and escalate trouble tickets as per escalation matrix
• Assurance of parameter data/change requests for active
• Track and record service assurance impacting outages
• Trigger Service Assurance sign-off
• Follow through to ensure completion of Service Assurance sign-off
• Interface with different Network domains to ensure tracking of Service Assurance impacting outages

Assurance Reports for both (Active & Passive) elements within Core:

• Ensure timely reporting from partner NOC as per contractual and agreed timeline
• Follow through for on-demand assurance reports
• Generation of reports to measure, analyze and improve NOC management process

End-to-End Management of Change Control within Core domain:

• Effective management of change requests for Core Network elements by monitoring and ensuring closure of approved change requests as planned.

3rd Party Follow up:

• Follow-up and ensure Trouble Tickets pending with 3rd Party support partners like ISPs or others

Coordination between TowerCo and Manage Service Partner NOC:

• Coordinate incidents requiring alignment between TowerCo and Manage Service Partner NOC

Governance:

• Drive daily outage sign-off between active and passive partners
• Partner NOC KPI monitoring and sign-off
• Develop updated Quality Assurance methodologies using in-house or external resources
• Work with Network Performance Analysis team to help validates the effect of the Change Request by comparing before and after CR implementation
• Audits all network elements (NEs) current DBs (i.e. HLR/TSS/MSC/MSS, MGWs/TGW/SGSN/GGSN etc.) to ensure possible missing or unnecessary pieces in the DBs (if any) to be added or removed from the NEs DBs respectively
• Conducts regular and ad-hoc QoS test calls (local/international) to evaluate call setup times, correct charging & voice qualities to ensure error free product services

Desired Skills and Experience
Educational Qualifications and Functional / Technical Skills:

• Bachelor of Engineering or B. Tech degree (Electrical/Electronic, Telecommunication or related fields)
• Expert on Mobile Network Core Operations (Fault and Configuration Management)
• Vendor Management
• Project Management
• Network Audit and functionality testing
• Business analysis
• Analytical, Statistical and Presentation skills
• Sound MS Excel skill
• Knowledge of Core Network Assurance Managements systems/tools/support systems

Relevant Experience:

• Minimum 7 years' experience in a GSM/Mobile company
• Minimum 6 years Core Network Operations & Maintenance in Telecom
• Minimum 3 Vendor Management experience
• Minimum 4 years Core Operation Assurance experience

Other Requirements:

• Attention to details
• Good negotiator
• Integrity
• Innovative
• Analytic
• Multi-tasking
• Professionalism

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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