Engineering Manager

Our client is building and growing a new fibre-to-the-home and fibre-to-the-business operator, supported by an international telecommunications group. The organisation is rolling out a carrier-grade access, aggregation, backbone and transmission network designed to serve residential broadband, enterprise connectivity, wholesale offerings and digital platforms. Dependable IP and transmission infrastructure is essential to keeping services available, protecting customer experience, allowing the network to scale and enabling cost-effective geographic expansion.

• Job Title: Engineering Manager
• Location: Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Reports To: Chief Technology & Information Officer
• Start Date: As soon as possible
• Team: IP Engineer(s), Transmission Engineer(s), Access Engineer(s)

• Network strategy and roadmap: Establish the IP and transmission strategy, target architecture, technology roadmap and investment priorities in line with subscriber growth, enterprise demand and geographic expansion.
• IP network architecture: Design and govern carrier-grade IP/MPLS infrastructure spanning the core, aggregation, edge and access layers, covering routing, switching, QoS, traffic engineering, IPv4/IPv6 and segmentation.
• Transmission architecture: Design and manage metro and long-haul optical networks, including DWDM, OTN and SDH where applicable, along with dark fibre, leased capacity and protected transmission paths.
• Internet, peering and interconnection: Oversee upstream transit, IX peering, private interconnection, content connectivity and carrier relationships in order to optimise cost, latency, resilience and customer experience.
• Capacity planning: Forecast IP traffic, backbone utilisation, wavelengths, ports and international bandwidth so that upgrades are delivered before congestion occurs.
• Network deployment: Supervise the design, procurement, staging, installation, configuration, integration, testing, commissioning and acceptance of IP and transmission infrastructure.