MTN Nigeria is one of the top Telecommunication Service Providers in Nigeria with operations across Africa by its parent company MTN, is recruiting to fill vacant positions in its Nigerian operation:
Job Title: Team Lead IP Planning Access
Department: Network Group
Location: Lagos
Employment Status: Permanent
Job Description:
- Oversee the plan and design data access nodes, sites and links within the national and metropolitan access networks to cater for new developments in the organization’s business plan.
- Map out requirement and develop solutions for convergence of diverse Customer Edge communications services onto consolidated backhaul (last mile) links for connectivity between the Customer Edge (CE) and the MPLS Provider Edge (PE).
- Interface with metro transmission personnel, key user groups and other necessary stakeholders to define and implement best fit access methodologies for transport and delivery of customer data access services in line with business drive e.g. Direct Connect, VPN & dedicated data bandwidth resale.
- Produce and evolve IP addressing, naming and numbering formats as well as quality of service parameters for the Customer Edge LANs and all other data access networks, nodes and elements.
- Oversee production and integration of IP routing solutions for extension of network management capability to Microwave Transmission sites in the metro & national TX backbone networks.
- Plan and implement WAN Access SLAs, quality and class of service requirements in alignment with the capabilities of the network and strive to ensure achievement of customer satisfaction on the total connectivity/transport solution.
- Conduct weekly & monthly network performance monitoring, trend analyses, capacity planning and expansion/optimization in line with traffic growth and customer demands and compile trend reports on capacity demand, utilization and availability for forecasting and proactive planning.
- Plan, schedule and conduct site visits and surveys for accurate and effective design, dimensioning and integration of new CEs, data access links and metropolitan access triangulation.
- Ensure accurate alignment of integration plans with customer request and key success factors via approval of Customer Requirement Documents (CRD).
Job Conditions:
- General MTNN working conditions Extra working hours may be required
Reporting To:
- National IP Planning Manager
Required Skills:
- At least 4 years experience in a telecoms systems integration preferably in a mobile service provider environment
- Sound understanding of access and metro transmission technologies, e.g. LRE, XDSL, PDH, SDH & DWDM.
- Sound working knowledge of IP/MPLS technology is essential.
- Networking protocols such as ISDN, XDSL, X.25, Frame Relay & ATM
- Voice Networking standards H.232, SIP, ETSI/ANSI, VOIP, and C7 (SS7).
- Advanced Routing mechanisms & protocols (Exterior and Interior Gateway, IS-IS, etc).
- Quality of Service mechanisms design & deployment techniques
Qualification:
- Bachelors degree in Electrical/ Electronic Engineering
Application Deadline
27th September, 2010
How To Apply
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