Grade: L1
Location: Islamabad
Last date to apply: 27 August 2025
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled professional to join our team as a Specialist in Transport Optical Network & IP Planning. The role is responsible for designing, optimizing, and evolving our transport and IP network infrastructure to deliver scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective connectivity solutions. The position requires deep expertise in optical transport technologies, IP/MPLS planning, and the integration of both domains to support current and future services.
Key Responsibilities
- Optical Network Planning & Design
- Plan, design, and optimize transport networks, including Optical Transport Networks (OTN), Fiber access networks (FTTS/FTTH) and IPRAN networks.
- Develop IP network topology and capacity plans for aggregation, core, and service edge (BRAS/BNG, PE routers).
- Ensure seamless integration between transport and IP layers for end-to-end service delivery.
- Hands-on experience with NMS platforms for network planning and service provisioning.
- Prepare and validate configurational scripts for L2/L3 networks (e.g., VLANs, routing, MPLS) and OTN service trails.
- Configure OTN services including path creation, protection schemes, and bandwidth allocation on NMS.
- Perform link utilization analysis and forecast capacity requirements.
- Recommend capacity upgrades and new deployments to meet traffic growth and SLAs.
- Evaluate new optical and IP technologies, vendors, and architectures for network modernization.
- Collaborate with transmission, IP, access, and data center teams for cohesive planning.
- Provide technical input in RFPs, vendor selection, and contract negotiations.
- Prepare detailed network plans, BoQs, and integration guidelines for rollout teams.
- Support troubleshooting, acceptance testing, and optimization post-deployment.
- Maintain up-to-date network diagrams, inventory, and capacity databases.
- Generate planning reports, risk assessments, and investment justifications.
- Analytical problem-solving and strategic planning.
- Strong coordination and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Analytical problem-solving and strategic planning.
Requirements
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
- Fresh or 2+ years of relevant experience in transport optical and/or IP/MPLS network planning (telecom operator or vendor environment).
- Strong understanding of:
- DWDM, OTN, ROADM, GMPLS, and optical protection schemes.
- IPRAN,IP/MPLS, Segment Routing, BGP, OSPF/IS-IS, QoS, and TE principles.
- Network synchronization and clock distribution methods.
- Hands-on experience with planning tools (e.g., Fiber Planner, OptiSystem, GIS tools, IP design simulators).
- Familiarity with major vendor platforms would be a plus (Nokia, Huawei, Ciena, Cisco, Juniper, etc.).
Benefits
As one of the leading employers in the country, Jazz epitomizes the philosophy that each Jazz employee is passionately living a better every day inspired and enabled by visionary leadership, a unique professional culture, a flourishing lifestyle, and continuous learning and development.
Our core values include qualities essential for a positive organizational culture - truthfully guiding entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets, harnessing professional and interpersonal collaboration, and fostering across-the-board customer-obsession.
As one of the largest private sector organizations in Pakistan, our objective is to continue to change the lives of our 75 million customers for the better. This is an opportunity for someone who wants to be part of something transformative, someone who can play a critical role in driving our success. Together, we can empower millions more with the tools necessary to progress in an increasingly digital economy.
