Senior Transmission Engineer

About the role

The Senior Transmission Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, operating, optimizing and maintaining the company’s transport network infrastructure across IP/MPLS, DWDM, Microwave, Metro Ethernet, Optical Transport and synchronization technologies. The role ensures high availability, resiliency and scalability while supporting network modernization and business growth.

Key responsibilities

• Manage operation and performance of optical, microwave and IP transport networks, ensuring backbone and access reliability.
• Design and implement transport solutions, develop architecture standards and produce detailed engineering documentation.
• Analyze traffic trends, forecast capacity needs and optimise routing, bandwidth utilisation and redundancy.
• Lead major incident escalations, conduct root‑cause analysis and drive improvements in MTTR.
• Support transport network projects from design through implementation, including technology evaluations and POCs.

Required profile

• BSc in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or related discipline.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in telecommunications transport, transmission or IP networking environments.
• Proven experience with carrier‑grade transport and backbone networks.
• Experience managing large‑scale transport projects and network expansion initiatives.

Required skills

• IP/MPLS, DWDM, Microwave, Metro Ethernet, Optical Transport, Synchronization.
• Carrier Ethernet, SDH, MPLS, IP backbone technologies.
• Network architecture and engineering standards development.
• Capacity planning, traffic analysis and routing optimisation.
• Incident and problem management, root‑cause analysis.