NETWORK PLANNING & OPTIMIZATION CONSULTANT

NETWORK PLANNING & OPTIMIZATION CONSULTANT (HYBRID)

Portuguese company hires for remote/hybrid work

CANDIDATES MUST LIVE IN LISBON/PORTUGAL

FLUENT ENGLISH (C1)

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Description

As a Network Planning & Optimization consultant, your day-by-day goal will be to improve overall network performance to our customers. Your key activities will be, including but not limited to:

• Planning and optimization activities for all generation of mobile networks (2G up to 5G);
• Able to solicit and share recommendations on features and parameters based on global market deployments.
• Strong understading of 5G NSA/SA and LTE end-to-end;
• Cluster tuning and optimization to achieve the target KPI;
• KPI Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting;
• KPI and Parameter mapping for multi-vendor projects;
• Day by day knowledge leverage within the team & technical workshop creation as part of our knowledge share best practices.

Your Profile;

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications or similar;
• 7 years or more planning engineering experience.
• Deep knowledge about planning networks with proven practice experience.
• Mobility & Load Balancing strategy implementation
• Expert level in Radio Access Networks 2G/3G/4G/5G NSA and SA.
• Experience on configuration, troubleshooting of planning technical problems.
• Knowledge/experience of Nokia equipment mandatory.

Must Have

• Degree in Telecommunications Engineer or similar;
• Strong understanding of Nokia 5G NSA/SA and LTE end to end.
• Proven experience with Nokia 5G NSA/SA deployments from global markets for mobile and fixed wireless, with a main focus of improving the performance and user experience
• 5G NSA/SA experience with Nokia TDD and FDD NR
• In-depth understanding of Nokia 5G NSA/SA and LTE Features and parameters and practical experience in leveraging Nokia features for layering, load balancing and KPI improvement for 5G and LTE.
• Ability to analyze network, identify LTE/5G features for trial for KPI improvement. - Identify trial parameter set based on previous project learnings.
• Present Feature overview to customer SMEs and agree on next steps and handle the E2E lifecycle of feature activation and rollout
• Able to conduct a complex analysis using NPO tools such as EMIL, TTI traces, Actix, NetAct and truecall to resolve degradations on real time
• Ability to analyze internal syslogs, eNB/gNB logs (EMIL/DCAP/TTI) for quick troubleshooting and issue resolution for lab or field activities.
• Expertise with UE and eNB/gNB signaling log analysis (UU, X2, S1 signaling)
• Proficiency and previous experience using UE logging tools such as QXDM, XCAL/XCAP, Actix or equivalent.
• Access to R&D and global teams’ resources for technical consultation on all aspects of 5G
• Able to solicit and share recommendations on features and parameters based on global market deployments.
• Ability to communicate effectively with internal team as well as customer engineering teams. Must have excellent presentation skills and be able to communicate/explain technical content to customer teams.
• English knowledge is mandatory;

Nice To Have

• Multi-vendor knowledge is a plus (Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia);
• Knowledge in Open-Ran protocols is a plus;
• Knowledge in BI, Data Processing, SQL and Scripting (ex: python) is a plus.

Top 5 Skills

• Rollout Management;
• Deep experience in 5G NSA/SA
• In-depth understanding of Nokia 5G NSA/SA and LTE Features and parameters and practical experience in leveraging Nokia features for layering, load balancing and KPI improvement for 5G and LTE.
• Able to conduct a complex analysis using NPO tools such as EMIL, TTI traces, Actix, NetAct and truecall to resolve degradations on real time
• Ability to communicate effectively with internal team as well as custome engineering teams.

Senior Profile

Type of Project: NPO

Working model: 70%-100% remote or 0%-30% in-person in Lisbon.

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