Network Engineer

Job Description :

Location is either St Louis or Denver (actual location TBD).

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 Client 5G 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, and 4G LTE. Nokia multi-vendor experience is beneficial, but not required.
• Understanding of layer 3 messages for 4G and 5G
• Able to perform event analysis and address accessibility, retainability and HO success rate issues 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

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