RAN Operations Transmission Specialist Bristol, England
BT Group
Full Time
Bristol, England
45090 - 58649 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
RAN Operations Transmission Specialist
Job Req ID: 2420
Posting Date: 16-May-2023
Function: Architecture Solution and Design
Location:
Assembly, Bristol, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive with great benefits
About the role
In this role, you will support and maintain our #1 network status as the best mobile network in the UK.
You will be the platform owner of the IPsec platform and responsible for the effective operations of the mobile RAN transmission services connecting the RAN to Core networks.
You will be responsible for integrating new projects into our operations services, ensuring adequate support models are built with our internal and external partners to deliver the best mobile services to our customers.
You will be based in our Bristol office with an opportunity for a hybrid working pattern (3days in the office and 2days wherever).
You'll have the following responsibilities
- Develop and implement the Operational Support Model for backhaul transmission designs such as IPSec, DHCP and PKI platforms.
- Working with the Design Authorities, ensure a precise software and hardware upgrade roadmap is in place to maintain vendor support and meet operational service requirements.
- Working with first-line ITIL functions and external vendors, supporting problem management investigations and collaborating with Design and other internal support functions.
- Identify improvements in transmission reliability and security, ensuring any subsequent programme delivery is undertaken using time, cost, and quality principles and updating relevant risk assessments.
- Drive resolution of major service/risk escalations and implement recovery actions.
- Run within unilateral supplier/vendor governance ORMs for transmission services.
- Deliver operational Service Designs for various new RAN projects and introduce them into operational in-life service.
You'll have the following essential skills and experience
- Strong skills in building the case for change, drawing on data and analytical techniques where appropriate, and communicating this to business audiences.
- Strong skills in linking the driver for change back to the end-customer experience and identifying required changes to processes and, where needed, contractual scope.
- Knowledgeable in business strategy, organisational performance drivers, and financial literacy (e.g. business KPIs, business cases).
- Strong communication and presentation skills at all levels.
- Operational experience as a mobile operator.
- Experience working with outsourced partners / managed services partners.
- Experience with RAN technologies and transmission technologies, including IPVPN and IP networks.
- Experience with mobile operations processes, such as ITIL.
- Good commercial acumen.
The following skills and experience are nice to have
- Experience working with mobile joint ventures
- Experience working on contractual scope requirements, definition and documentation
- Experience using encryption methodologies
- Experience working in process transition and transformation environments
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 10% on target bonus
- BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
- 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
- Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan
- World-class training and development opportunities
- Discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages
- Access to 100’s of retail discounts including the BT shop
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
BT Group
www.bt.com/careers
London, United Kingdom
Philip Jansen
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10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Telecommunications Services
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