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Airtel Nigeria recruitment for Transmission Engineers, September 2019

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. We are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Transmission Engineer (Nokia Router, Fibre, OSN, DSS, DWDM) Location: Nigeria Purpose of the Job

Control, Manage and Support day to day transmission operations and management of the fiber network, Tellabs and OSN Dxx/DWDM network operations to ensure an optimum network availability, excellent customer experience, delivering Operational excellence with most cost optimized model in the world.

Roles and Responsibilities

Full IP understanding and management
Operational Planning for Proper redundancy for links and traffic
Validating Traffic planning & provisioning
Endure fiber cuts are attended to and restore within the set MTTR
Ensure preventive maintenance & Escalation procedures of fiber networks and the active nodes are implemented
Periodic audit of all ASON/DWDM and SDH channels and cross connections domains
Spares management to ensure availability of both critical and non-critical active spares
Ensure Huawei OSN/DWDM and Tellabs SDH Service Provider Service Level Agreement management are meet
All Incidence management recommendation and follow up of both national and metro fiber incident including Huawei OSN/DWDM and Tellabs SDH
Create and Review plan for service Provisioning then coordination with each MS Partner/POI partners.
Day-to-day links Utilization monitoring and trigger for Upgrade/Rectify/Govern the partners to resolve issues
Uptime Monitoring & Troubleshooting with partners
Resolution drive for Fiber cuts & Service rerouting in the event of failures
Technical competence in Nokia and Huawei router configuration

Skills and Qualifications

Bachelor of Electrical /Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or Telecoms Engineering (Masters Degree in Engineering a plus)
Sound knowledge of IP network and Mobile Network O&M
Analytical and Presentation skills
5 -7 years of varied experience in operation and maintenance in the Telecom industry
4-6 years’ managerial experience in a GSM/mobile company
With at least 4 - 5 years’ hands on experience in various fiber network implementation and Huawei OSN/DWDM and Tellabs SDH.

Competencies:

Tactical disposition in decision making and managing resources
Logical decision making abilities
Ability to motivate and lead both internal and external partners
Impeccable integrity and character
Go-getter
Communication Skills
Cost, process and automation Innovation.
Flexible and dedicated
Ability to innovate and deliver value to business
Ability to manage an outsourcing partner to effectively deliver on service level agreements