Transmission Engineer

What does the role involve?

• Providing 3rd level technical support for Transmission equipment in a multi-vendor environment.
• Providing out-of-hours on-call support cover as part of the 24x7 on-call rota.
• Troubleshooting logged faults in order to accurately isolate the cause, taking corrective action to minimize the impact of faults when they occur.
• Liaising with vendors where necessary in order to resolve vendor related issues and monitor progress through to resolution.
• Supporting the implementation of new equipment and the ongoing maintenance, and configuration of existing systems.
• Supporting project deliveries from engineering, review design documentation, implement solutions, and subsequently deploy configuration.
• Developing, documenting and refining best practice and standard operating procedures/processes to improve the management of Transmission infrastructure.
• Building good working relationships with staff from all areas of the business to consistently achieve the best results.
• Reviewing and approving Transmission network change requests.

What experience do you need?

• Relevant technical qualification or a minimum of 3 years' experience network management, and or Telecoms field Engineering/Commissioning role.
• Excellent understanding of SDH and DWDM.
• Strong hands on experience with Ciena CPL and OME6500, Huawei U2000 and OSN6800.
• Unix knowledge and Timepictra Sync Management.
• Flexibility in approach to work and willingness to learn new technologies.
• An organised approach to fault finding and ability to take responsibility.
• Exposure to ITIL and a change management process to deliver network service changes through either internal or external implementation teams.

For finer details please contact Amanda Cager - Amanda.cager@projectpoeple.com - 01628762270.

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