Capacity Planning Engineer Job at Airtel Nigeria

Airtel Nigeria (Airtel Networks Limited) is a leading telecommunications services provider in Nigeria headquartered in Lagos, the commercial nerve-centre of Nigeria. The telco ranks amongst the top four mobile service providers in terms of subscribers with a customer base of more than 39.8 million. The company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce and enterprise services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Capacity Planning Engineer

Job Identification: 587
Job Location: Lagos
Job Schedule: Full time

Purpose of the Job

• The purpose of the role is to ensure that the network capacity across all the technologies (2G, 3G, 4G and 5G) is designed to support current and forecasted traffic.
• Also, maintaining an accurate database of radio access resources at all times and managing network capacity using innovative and automated processes to guarantee consistency and data reliability.

Responsibilities
Design & Monitor UTRAN Interfaces:

• Design the UTRAN interfaces based on traffic forecast
• Monitor the traffic trend and ensure to keep system within the target utilization threshold
• Recommend cost effective solutions

Capacity Planning:

• Follow up with core network and transport planning to ensure end-to-end capacity planning is maintained
• Ensure that utilization of all the technology layers is efficiently managed.
• Understand the HW and SW capabilities of the telecom equipment.
• Carry out capacity plan for special events and sudden traffic increase.

Technology evolution:

• Ensure balanced traffic loading between different technologies
• Plan and design future-proof solutions.
• Apply insights from geo-location platform, Facebook and other sources to proactively forecast and plan network capacity.
• Maintain the HW and SW roadmaps tracker and ensure that capacity enhancement features are sourced and deployed at the right time.

Educational Qualifications 

• University Degree in Electronic / Electrical, Computer or Telecommunication Engineering
• Proven professional training in Telecommunications sector

Relevant Experience:

• 5 years of experience in 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G Radio Engineering
• Experience in automation is an added advantage
• Excellent in using excel and other Microsoft applications
• Hands-on experience operating performance management tools and dimensioning tools.