Engineer – IP Access Planning at MTN Nigeria

Description

• Plan and design nodes, sites and links within the national IP/MPLS Edge & Core Networks and ensure ongoing development to cater for new developments in the organization’s business plan.
• 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 customer 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 and Class of Service techniques at the network Edge and in the MPLS core network.
• Plan all IP backbone integration events, issue work orders and control project processes for capacity expansion, node integration and/or new service introduction.
• Conduct weekly & monthly network performance monitoring, trend analyses, capacity planning and expansion in line with network growth trends and increases in traffic.
• Develop and evolve IP addressing, naming and numbering formats for 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.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering
• Fluent in English

Experience:

3 – 7 years of experience which includes:

• Experience in IT & Telecoms preferably on a large Service Provider network.
• Cisco qualification – CCNP/DP,CCIP level with extensive systems integration and network design experience.
• Understanding of high capacity Packet & TDM transmission technologies & products, e.g. SDH, DWDM.
• Working knowledge of IP/MPLS, QOS standards & Networking protocols such as X25, TCP/IP, Frame Relay, ATM, MPLS and ATOM.
• Voice Networking Telecom standards ETSI/ANSI, VOIP, C7 (SS7).
• Knowledge of advanced IP routing protocols (BGP, IS-IS, etc.).