Senior Specialist NQ E2E Engineering at Vodacom

Role Purpose

To perform a deep dive analysis into network performance and develop diagnostic network performance tools to deliver insights towards performance improvement and automated network solutions for customer experience improvement.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Maintain and Develop Analytical Codebase for existing toolsets within E2E Network quality
• Develop principles in automation and Machine learning for Network and business insights under the engineering influence
• Liaise with Regional and other Network Engineering teams for improvement and localisation of network solutions with respect to analytics and automation
• Develop techniques and statistical methods using automated programming principles to fast track analytics  and business guidance to Network Problem solving, Capacity Analysis, Product launch Network impact assessment and Future Technology rollout considerations
• Maintain database accuracy and relevance of various data sources and interact with other roll players to ensure conformance to business and security principles 
• Use Geospatial techniques to enhance network evaluation and Customer impact
• Develop synergies in automation of analytics within the Engineering community that streamlines the Operational teams workload and increases efficiency
• Train Regional staff in the use of the Automated tooling systems and Analytics
• Source new datasets for ingestion into the Analytical framework and toolsets to enhance Quality and Capacity monitoring and forecasting and improve time to resolution
• Generate automated methods in Capacity planning and Coverage Analytics for New Product evaluation and design
• Interact with Sales and Commercial business units to formulate Network design and Capacity Analysis that works to consumer needs 

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Detailed Mobile Telecommunications Knowledge 
• Specialist RF knowledge
• Programming and Database maintenance and design
• Mathematical/numerical methods
• Cellular Radio network planning
• Future Mobile technologies

Education & Experience:

• BSc degree in Engineering/IT
• Programming training in C# and additional Python and JavaScript programming an advantage
• 3 years’ experience in Microsoft DotNet/C#
• 3 years’ experience with SQL or database development
• Preferred 3 years’ experience in Telecommunications
• Preferred experience in Python programming
• Preferred experience in JavaScript programming
• Preferred 1 Years’ experience in LINUX 
• Preferred experience with Protocol Stack
• 2 Years’ experience Data Analytics

Closing date for Applications: 6 December 2021

The base location for this role is Midrand, Vodacom Campus.

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values diversity & inclusion