2G/3G RAN Performance engineer

We are currently looking to hire an experienced 2G/3G RAN Performance engineer on behalf of our client.

This role is a long term assignment and started in September, suitable candidates will be interviewed the first week of July and offered the role immediately.

Job Description 2G RAN Performance Engineer:

· Day to dayperformance monitoring of major KPI s at BSC and cell level drop, TCH Drop,SDCCH Congestion, TCH Congestion, TCH Assignment Success Rate, HandoverSuccessful Rate.

· Analysis the radionetwork performance by collecting and analyzing statistics.

· Recommend actions forradio network expansion and corrective measure.

· Using statistics to forecast the future growth of Network.

· Using statistics to identify the congested parts of the radio network.

· Check consistency,and to find any radio network optimization faults and gives recommendations for correction. (Using OSS application i.e CNA, RNO, PMR, MTR, R-PMO).

· Ensure a healthy radio network performance by regular audits and sanity checks, using statisticsfrom the radio network.

· Setup BSS (GSM andGPRS) statistics in SPG and APG nodes using verified formulas

· Provide all kinds of performance reports for BSC s as per requirements

· Identify the Customer Requirements on the Report Customization

· Make Unix shell script ,SQL Store Proc. to get data from CSDDB and BSDDB of sybase SQL database in OSS applications.

· Manual and Automatic Collection of defined GSM and GPRS statistics to analysis the radio networkperformance

· Use Business Object to generate hourly, daily, busy hour stats, (cell, BSS, network level)

· Liaise with NetQb for performance benchmarking purposes, etc

· Excellent knowledge of GSM technologies, and its interfaces (A, Air, Abis e.g.).

· Good understanding of Standard Ericsson 2G RAN Counters, KPI and its formula.

· Understanding the definition of 2G RAN indicators and key performance indicators.

· Experienced with Ericsson Performance tool for measurement collection, scheduling, analyzing and troubleshooting.

· Good understanding ofEricsson 2G RAN data/measurement flow from NE to OSS.

· Familiar with Ericsson Measurement Data Export interface.

· Knowledge of Ericsson 2GRAN OSS Performance Database and the structure.

· Experienced with Performance Management Tools (e.g. Metrica , BO, Actix).

· Experience of MS SQL and MS Application.

· Experience of working with large databases such as Oracle, MS Sql.

· Good understanding about business object (query designer).

Responsibilities:

· Day to day analysis on 2GRAN network performance by analyzing statistics.

· Ensure a healthy 2G RAN network performance by regular audits and sanity checks, using statistics from the radio network.

· Analyzing Reports forperformance anomalies/exceptions.

· Investigating and escalating performance issues to concern department.

· Producing 2G Radio Network Performance Add hoc or Special Reports.

· Provide recommendation for radio network expansion and corrective maintenance.

· Provide recommendations for 2G RAN performance improvement.

· Ability to work inmulti-vendor environment.

Qualification (formal education needed):

· Bachelor Degree of Telecommunication / Computer Engineering.

· 5 years of experience inNetwork Performance Quality. Having minimum 2 years experience in 3G UMTS technology.

· Software languages,MS Excel (Macro), MS Access, SQL, Sybase etc

Requested competence:

· Extensive experience in relevant field.

· Must have extensive experience with Ericsson equipment

· GSM network operations and maintenance

· Radio Network StatisticsSetup and Analyses

· Understand BSS parameter,feature & counter.

· The RAN Performance Engineer should have a good knowledge acquired through training in the following courses:

1. RDBMS,MS-SQL, Sybase or Oracle Database.

2. UNIX shell script writing, debugging.

3. Advanced knowledge of UNIX and SQL-programming.

4. Computer Skill (Excel, Words and MS-Office).

Rates : According the experience

Duration : 12 months to 24 Months extendable

If you are currently looking for a new assignmentor about to finish your contract please email your CV to: mbouhadouf@firstpointgroup.com

Job based in: Saudi Arabia Job Type Contract - Salary Guide According to experience Work Experience 2 years minimum