| MTN 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. | |
Applications close 24 Jan 2012. |
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