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Role Summary
Manage lifecycle, remediation, and automation for Microwave, Optics network elements including legacy PDH and SDH. Ensure accurate Install Base data, vendor-aligned upgrade paths and risk-managed network upgrade execution.
- Provides technical concurrence and sign off for high profile and/or critical network changes on major BT core platforms and/or customer bids; accountable for managing technical risk for major platforms.
- Provides consultancy on network designs for multiple platforms and/or solutions and/or customers
- Develops design patterns across multiple domains.
- Responsible for establishing design best practice within a unit.
- Responsible for estimating the time and type of resource needed to support deliverables for complex, high impact and high value projects.
- Drives Right First-Time solutions and leads lessons learned
- Proposes technical strategy to network platforms and/or customer solutions factoring in high impact and high risk as appropriate.
- Drives efficiency and scalability through the re-use of network designs and accountable for the design whilst it is deployed across the overall network platform and/or customer solution.
- Potentially leads a large matrix team (virtual) and is accountable for complex network development using innovative approaches to design (including cross-portfolio solutions). Leverages technical resource/s as required to deliver the solution.
- Decides on design scope and design to leading edge high impact and high-risk network platforms and/or customer solutions
- Audit & Install Base: catalogue installed equipment HW, firmware versions, licenses, channel plans, and backhaul dependencies
- Remediation: address RF performance issues (SNR/RSSI, modulation rates), interference, alignment, and configuration drift; apply patches/hotfixes
- Lifecycle Upgrades: plan and execute Software upgrades across the entire install base with staged pilots, maintenance windows, and rollback procedures
- Vendor Engagement: coordinate with Nokia, Cambium & Ceragon on constraints, advisories, and recommended upgrade paths; review release notes and field notices
- Scripting & Automation: automate backups, compliance checks, and mass config/firmware pushes via APIs/CLI; generate health and KPI reports
- Risk Management: define change windows, user impact mitigation, and fallback strategies; maintain risk registers
- Documentation & Recommendations: produce execution plans, MOPs, and optimization recommendations
- Performance Validation: verify throughput/latency/packet loss and link availability; baseline and monitor KPIs post-change
- Decides on network models for design testing.
- Decides on approach to resolving customer affected issues to leading edge high impact and high-risk network platforms and/or customer solutions, as appropriate.
- Resolves in-life issues to high risk and high impact network platforms and/or customer solutions, as appropriate
- Decides how to re-use network designs.
- Decides on implementation approaches of technology related transformation activity.
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