What I’ll be doing – your accountabilities

Role Summary

Manage lifecycle, remediation, and automation for Microwave, Optics network elements including legacy PDH and SDH. Ensure accurate Install Base data, vendor-aligned upgrade paths and risk-managed network upgrade execution.

• Provides technical concurrence and sign off for high profile and/or critical network changes on major BT core platforms and/or customer bids; accountable for managing technical risk for major platforms.
• Provides consultancy on network designs for multiple platforms and/or solutions and/or customers                                      
• Develops design patterns across multiple domains.
• Responsible for establishing design best practice within a unit.
• Responsible for estimating the time and type of resource needed to support deliverables for complex, high impact and high value projects.
• Drives Right First-Time solutions and leads lessons learned
• Proposes technical strategy to network platforms and/or customer solutions factoring in high impact and high risk as appropriate.
• Drives efficiency and scalability through the re-use of network designs and accountable for the design whilst it is deployed across the overall network platform and/or customer solution.
• Potentially leads a large matrix team (virtual) and is accountable for complex network development using innovative approaches to design (including cross-portfolio solutions). Leverages technical resource/s as required to deliver the solution. 
• Decides on design scope and design to leading edge high impact and high-risk network platforms and/or customer solutions
• Audit & Install Base: catalogue installed equipment HW, firmware versions, licenses, channel plans, and backhaul dependencies
• Remediation: address RF performance issues (SNR/RSSI, modulation rates), interference, alignment, and configuration drift; apply patches/hotfixes
• Lifecycle Upgrades: plan and execute Software upgrades across the entire install base with staged pilots, maintenance windows, and rollback procedures
• Vendor Engagement: coordinate with Nokia, Cambium & Ceragon on constraints, advisories, and recommended upgrade paths; review release notes and field notices
• Scripting & Automation: automate backups, compliance checks, and mass config/firmware pushes via APIs/CLI; generate health and KPI reports
• Risk Management: define change windows, user impact mitigation, and fallback strategies; maintain risk registers
• Documentation & Recommendations: produce execution plans, MOPs, and optimization recommendations
• Performance Validation: verify throughput/latency/packet loss and link availability; baseline and monitor KPIs post-change
• Decides on network models for design testing.
• Decides on approach to resolving customer affected issues to leading edge high impact and high-risk network platforms and/or customer solutions, as appropriate.
• Resolves in-life issues to high risk and high impact network platforms and/or customer solutions, as appropriate
• Decides how to re-use network designs.
• Decides on implementation approaches of technology related transformation activity.

Skills required for the job

Provide detailed information on any qualifications, technical expertise or security clearance that you will need for the job. (See example statements below).

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in transmission domain

Legacy & Optics Transmission:  

• Strong understanding of Transmission Solutions based on Optics technologies
• Minimum 5-8 years of hand on experience in WDM, OTN and legacy SDH / PDH transmission.
• In-depth understanding of different vendor products like Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent, Avara, Ericsson (Marconi).
• Good to have working experience on enterprise and industrial transmission design.
• Key achievements in technical expertise on his/her domain. 

Microwave Transmission:  

• Strong understanding of Microwave Transmission Solutions 
• Minimum 5-8 years of hand on experience in PtmP Microwave e.g. Nokia/Radwin, Cambium including cnMaestro administration.
• Minimum 5-8 years of hand on experience in PtP Microwave e.g. Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent, Ceragon including Ceragon NetMaster.
• In-depth understanding of different vendor products like Nokia, Ceragon and Cambium.
• Good to have working experience on enterprise and industrial transmission design.
• Key achievements in technical expertise on his/her domain. 

Common Deliverables:

• Install Base Report: HW/SW versions, licenses, topology, and dependencies
• Remediation Plan: defects found, risk, timeline, and expected outcomes
• Lifecycle Upgrade Execution Plan (MOP): steps, validations, rollback, comms
• Risk Register: risks, impact assessment, mitigations
• Post-Change Report: KPI deltas, incident summary, lessons learned
• Automation Assets: scripts/playbooks, runbooks, documentation

Preferred / Bonus:

• Nokia Certified: Optical Network Services Expert, DWDM Specialist
• Cambium Certification