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South Africa
Gauteng
Johannesburg
Innovation Centre |
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| | • Oversee and coordinate the implementation and integration of new core radio access nodes, ie BSC and RNC
• Oversee the capacity management and performance metrics of the RAN nodes
• Evaluate the benefits and business case of new BSC and RNC related features which enhance the performance the radio network
• Manage the licensed capacity of the basic and optional radio features for both 2G and 3G
• Prepare budgetary projections for new BSC and RNC nodes and associated expansion
• Oversee commitment and capitalization of CAPEX allocated to RAN nodes |
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| | • Manage and forecast RAN node capacity at component level to ensure suitable headroom
• Maintain acceptable utilization metrics. Capacity pools should never be overdimensioned nor underdimensioned
• Development of performance management reports and RAN node dimensioning models which improve the forecasting accuracy for upgrades and introduction of new nodes
• Advise Manager: Radio Optimization about RAN node rollout plan and coordinate cutovers and re-parenting of cells to ensure optimum utilisation of available capacity
• Coordinate network rollout with other departments for both hardware and software (Systems Planning, Implementation, Operations and Core Planning)
• Ensure that network quality is monitored on a continuous basis and is maintained in accordance with specified KPIs
• Escalate network performance impacting issues to Operations dept (HLS, DCG, CNO, BSS)
• Vendor liaison and management of various issues that impact the radio optimisation department
• Oversee the seasonal planning of holiday upgrades (eg Easter & Christmas period) and special events (eg sports matches)
• Providing input and guidance to planning and optimisation engineers on optimisation issues to ensure that KPIs are achieved and exceeded
• Preparation of yearly budgets for RAN network rollout and expansion
• Maintain knowledge base of future migration strategies, eg migration to a single RAN network
• Optimize RAN nodes for strategic matters in the network, eg smartphone load, special discounting initiative like MTN Zone or DataZone
• Supporting specialized optimization initiatives that affect the radio node network like GPEH recordings
• Overseeing the activation of special features for the radio network
• Project management of radio access node roll out
• Planning of remote node implementation
• Ensuring that predicted CAPEX requirements are committed and capitalized on time
• Developing a strategic competence and knowledge base about RAN nodes from different vendors
• Supporting feature trialling
• Developing and maintaining suitable database reporting structures to assess performance, dimensioning and upgrades of node capacity
• Guidance to other departments to ensure that future requirements are met to support the RAN network
• Knowledge of the key performance of MTN SA radio nodes as compared to other best in class benchmarks
• Supplying forecasts about anticipated traffic to other departments
• Planning and developing a strategy for an all IP radio access environment
• Maintaining a three year view on radio access nodes to ensure that hardware remains concurrent and compatible with latest radio software releases
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| | Education: BSc. (Electronic Engineering) or equivalent |
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| | Thorough experience in radio optimization, preferably both 2G and 3G
Experience in software development and working with databases
Prior SQL query experience preferable
Exposure to a research and development environment would be beneficial
Exposure to RAN node hardware would be beneficial
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| | • Ability to learn quickly to adapt to knew technologies and methods
• Be able to develop a profound understanding of abstract concept like traffic forecasting
• Have a drive to constantly improve.
• Strong numerical accuracy
• Aptitude for database manipulations and data mining
• Emotionally intelligent |
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| | Reference No: | IRC64119 | | | Position Type: | Permanent | | | Affirmative Action: | Open to All | | | Salary: |
| | | Additional: | ? Good understanding of the operations within a RAN environment
? Have a very good knowledge of radio network planning & optimisation techniques
? Very good knowledge of radio technology (GSM, UMTS and LTE)
? Understanding of wider trends in the international and local telecoms industry
? Understanding of the Regulatory and competitive structure of SA industry
? Understand principles, languages and tools of software development
? Understanding of Project Management principles.
? Be computer and internet literate. |
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| Applications close 24 Jan 2012. |
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