Mobile Transport Network Planning and Optimization Engineer

Responsible for planning, designing, optimizing, and assuring end-to-end transport networks supporting 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G services. Key Responsibilities • Develop HLD and LLD solutions for microwave, IP/MPLS, optical, and enterprise transport networks. • Perform microwave path planning, link-budget calculations, frequency planning, interference analysis, and capacity dimensioning. • Audit transport network capacity, configuration, quality, resilience, and performance. • Monitor KPIs such as utilization, throughput, latency, jitter, packet loss, availability, and congestion. • Troubleshoot performance issues and provide optimization and capacity-expansion recommendations. • Design and validate QoS, redundancy, route diversity, and synchronization solutions. • Support rollout, modernization, migration, acceptance, and service-readiness activities. • Coordinate with RAN, Core, IP, Optical, and Operations teams. Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, Electrical, Electronics, Computer, or related Engineering. • Strong knowledge of 2G/3G/4G/5G transport architecture, including fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul. • Experience in microwave and mobile transport planning and optimization. • Proficiency with Ellipse, Atoll, Pathloss, or similar planning tools. • Good knowledge of TCP/IP, Ethernet, VLAN, MPLS, routing, QoS, and traffic engineering. • Hands-on experience with transport NMS/EMS and RAN OSS platforms such as NCE, NSP, ENM, NetAct, or iMaster. • Knowledge of microwave, routing, switching, optical transport, SyncE, PTP, and NTP. • Experience in GIS, KPI analysis, time-series data, probes, and benchmarking tools. • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and reporting skills. • Fluent in written and spoken English. Preferred • Knowledge of RAN and Core Networks. • Experience in forecasting, anomaly detection, automation, Python, SQL, Power BI, or Grafana. • Relevant Cisco, Juniper, Nokia, Huawei, or Ericsson certification. Originally posted on Himalayas