Core Planning & Optimization Engineer (Huawei)

● Coordinate with the customer for the yearly core network plan by providing recommendations in terms of capacity margin or new features implementation.
● Support the customer planning department in delivering detailed design operations.
● Consolidate the radio and transmission requirements to the customer planning department.
● Provide timely network and elements configuration data for commissioning of new core nodes.
● Supervise the integration of new core nodes.
● Coordinate post-integration testing and performance analysis to verify the proper functioning of the network, in compliance with specifications.
● Provide support to network operation and network implementation departments in acceptance of core projects, attending the acceptance tests.
● Address specific performance issues where identified and handed over for investigation and resolution by a performance analyst (high-level end-to-end performance analysis).
● Assure compliance with MS contract and identify any adverse trends in core network performance before they result in actual service degradation.
● Perform all necessary call trace analysis for investigation and support the radio engineer for end-to-end quality troubleshooting.
● Verify through continuous operational capacity planning in compliance with required capacity margins as defined by the customer core engineering guidelines.
● Prepare action plans where deviation from MS contract KPIs has been detected from core to optimize network performance and comply with MS contract KPI and capacity margins.
Requirements:
● Experience in Huawei CS core optimization and performance improvement.
● Experience in Huawei IMS core optimization and performance improvement.
● Experience in analyzing call flow and voice services.
● Practical experience with Huawei SBC, ATS, CSCF, MGCF, VSPS, and UDM.
● In-depth practical experience with Huawei ATCA and cloud platform.
● Familiar with Huawei features and their activation process.
● In-depth practical experience in troubleshooting using a trace of SIP, MAP, CAP, BSSAP, and RANAP.
● In-depth practical experience in Nokia CS/IMS Core for troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and KPI degradation analysis.
Key professional competencies:
● Excellent knowledge of the process of Core Network Optimization in a Telecom client for 2G (and 3G if any) and the related constraints.
● Troubleshooting skills.
● Root cause analysis.
● KPI degradation analysis.
● Ability to understand technical guidebooks.
Qualifications and experience:
● Analytical and problem-solving.
● Anticipation and adaptation.
● Rigor and organization.
● Teamwork spirit.
● Supplier-specific hardware knowledge.