Network Engineer

Job Description:

Supplier should use the following competence profile as the minimum requirements to select and submit experienced candidates. All the criteria should be met:

• Minimum ten (10) years' experience with BSEE/BSCS or applicable experience.
• Recent experience in radio network design, implementation and/or tuning/optimization systems is required.
• Leadership experience is required for five+ projects. Two projects must be the leader for all technical activities in a large scale (major metropolitan area or statewide geographic area) and responsibilities must include technical organization and oversight of work and demonstrated excellence in communications with team, project manager, and customer
• Experience in working with different services including 5G NR, Massive MIMO, mmWave, LAA (License Assisted Access), 4G LTE, IOT, CBRS and/or multi-vendor
• Understanding of layer 3 messages for 4G and 5G
• Able to perform event analysis and address accessibility, retainability and HO success rate issues Design
• Extensive experience in planning tools such as Planet EV and Atoll
• Detailed understanding of the link budget
• Detailed understanding of inputs required, and how to create a new project in a planning tool, tilt/azimuth optimization, proposing new site locations etc.
• Have used the ACP (Automatic Cell Planning) tool
• Able to make recommendations to improve a network design (cell plan)
• Detailed understanding of Monte Carlos Analysis
• Able to perform model tuning Identify add-on sales opportunities Tuning
• Able to make recommendations in parameter changes, feature activations on drive test data to improve the system performance
• Detailed understanding of optimization tools such as TEMS investigation, Actix, Agilent and R&S
• Experience in tuning a loaded network, and understand the difference between artificial and real traffic loading
• Detailed understanding of Layer 3 messaging
• Able to collect and analyze drive data and performance statistics, and solve complex issues
• Knowledge on how IRAT procedures can affects the overall network quality
• Suggests improvements to tools
• Understand the impact of adding additional carrier(s) on the network including 5G Optimization
• Has the competence to implement and experiment on RAN features relative to traffic analysis
• Understands the relationship between Handovers and Network Capacity, and how to optimize both
• Detailed knowledge of the Client ENM, and how to operate the optimization tools
• Detailed knowledge of KPIs and able to make recommendations to improve them
• Understand how enhance uplink tuning is performed
• Detailed understanding and experience in LTE/5G optimization

Additional skills

• Proficient with MS Office
• Flexibility of extensive travel within the US
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to operate with high degree of independence, while managing project and customer expectations
• Ability to coordinate activities with various client's departments, divisions and companies
• Ability to identify and interpret customer requirements, and develop plans to address them