Mobile Transport Network Planning and Optimization Engineer

Job Description Responsible for planning, designing, optimizing, and assuring end-to-end transport networks supporting 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G services.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop HLD and LLD solutions for microwave, IP/MPLS, optical, and enterprise transport networks.
• Perform microwave path planning, link-budget calculations, frequency planning, interference analysis, and capacity dimensioning.
• Audit transport network capacity, configuration, quality, resilience, and performance.
• Monitor KPIs such as utilization, throughput, latency, jitter, packet loss, availability, and congestion.
• Troubleshoot performance issues and provide optimization and capacity-expansion recommendations.
• Design and validate QoS, redundancy, route diversity, and synchronization solutions.
• Support rollout, modernization, migration, acceptance, and service-readiness activities.
• Coordinate with RAN, Core, IP, Optical, and Operations teams.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, Electrical, Electronics, Computer, or related Engineering.
• Strong knowledge of 2G/3G/4G/5G transport architecture, including fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul.
• Experience in microwave and mobile transport planning and optimization.
• Proficiency with Ellipse, Atoll, Pathloss, or similar planning tools.
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP, Ethernet, VLAN, MPLS, routing, QoS, and traffic engineering.
• Hands-on experience with transport NMS/EMS and RAN OSS platforms such as NCE, NSP, ENM, NetAct, or iMaster.
• Knowledge of microwave, routing, switching, optical transport, SyncE, PTP, and NTP.
• Experience in GIS, KPI analysis, time-series data, probes, and benchmarking tools.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and reporting skills.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Preferred

• Knowledge of RAN and Core Networks.
• Experience in forecasting, anomaly detection, automation, Python, SQL, Power BI, or Grafana.
• Relevant Cisco, Juniper, Nokia, Huawei, or Ericsson certification.