Transmission Engineer

Groupe Aldelia Limited

Groupe Aldelia Limited - Our client is a leading regional telecommunications and broadband provider, delivering connectivity services across residential and enterprise segments. The company operates an extensive transmission and backbone infrastructure supporting broadband, voice and data services.

They are recruiting to fill the position below:

• Job Title: Transmission Engineer
• Location: Ibadan, Oyo
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Reports to: Transmission Manager
• Team: NOC, Field Engineers, IP Engineering teams and third-party transmission providers

Job Summary

• The Transmission Engineer is responsible for ensuring the availability, performance and continuous improvement of the SDH, DWDM and optical transmission network.
• The role supports network operations, troubleshooting, maintenance activities and deployment of new transmission infrastructure while ensuring service quality and network resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Transmission operations - ensure SDH and transmission operating procedures are applied and maintained across operational teams.

• Incident management - provide second-level escalation support for transmission-related incidents and major service degradations.

• Network troubleshooting - resolve backbone, metro and long-haul transmission issues with field engineering teams, vendors and carriers.

• Provisioning support - support implementation and commissioning of new customer and backbone circuits.

• Performance management - monitor network performance and produce weekly and monthly operational reports.

• Maintenance & upgrades - execute planned and emergency maintenance activities across transmission infrastructure.

• Infrastructure acceptance - validate new fibre and transmission infrastructure delivered by suppliers and contractors.

• Network expansion - participate in the design and implementation of SDH/DWDM transmission projects and long-haul backbone deployments.

• Cross-functional collaboration - coordinate with IP engineering teams to ensure end-to-end service delivery and network integration.

• Success will be Measured by

• Network availability and uptime performance

• Transmission fault resolution time

• SLA compliance for incident handling and escalations

• Successful delivery of maintenance and upgrade activities

• Network performance indicators and alarm reduction

• Quality of documentation and infrastructure acceptance processes

• Customer bandwidth provisioning accuracy

• What We're Looking For

• CCNA or JNCIA certification required; CCNP or JNCIP considered an advantage.

• Minimum 3 years experience in telecommunications network operations or transmission engineering.

• Strong knowledge of SDH, DWDM, optical transmission and IP networks.

• Experience with network monitoring tools including MRTG, RRD, NAGIOS and SNMP.

• Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills.

• Basic Linux administration and command-line experience.

• Ability to work in a 24x7 operational environment and participate in on-call rotations.

Application Closing Date

Not Specified.