Senior Transport Engineer - SME

JOB ROLE:

SENIOR TRANSPORT ENGINEER

- Drive overall operational readiness for Transport area working with cross domain organizations
- Support HOTO activities, verify and validate documents and provide recommendations
- Provide SME level expertise to Operations teams for Operationalization to areas such as alarm correlation working with the other E2E teams (LTE, EPC)
- Be part of working group meetings with Planning and Operations organizations to ensure activities are tracked and resolved
- Verify and validate process and tools applicable to the transport area and provide domain level expertise
- Provide global competence and knowledge share of best practices
- Provide inputs related to Design Parameters & Design guidelines
- Provide inputs related to desired KPIs & Service metrics
- Document the gaps and recommend the mitigation plan. Define the scope for the further phases of gap closure strategy and provide implementation support.
- Recommend the Mitigation plan with gap closure strategy and implementation support
- Support in activities related to automation and competence readiness

DESIRED PROFILE:

- Knowledge of product and solution offerings from vendors such as Ciena and ALU
- Good knowledge of LTE architectures and components (ie, RAN, mobile packet backhaul, EPC) and requirements (eg, 3GPP)
- Good knowledge of IP Networks including routing protocols, QoS, reliability, security (Cisco, Juniper certifications are a plus)
- First-hand knowledge of deployment of these technologies on service provider networks including their pros and cons
- Experience of Optical Core networks (DWDM, ASON) & Microwave
- At least >5 years working experience in IP Transport design & Operations
- Total experience: 10-15yrs