Principal Engineer - Network Architecture And Planning   (Vacancy Closed)

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Job Summary

  • This is a key position to develop and manage U Mobile IP Exchange (IPX) traffic strategy, to deliver a high performance, resilient and cost-effective architecture / topology.
  • The person would represent U Mobile to interface towards IPTX providers, IX data centres (AIMS, Equinix etc.), as well as content partners (for hosted CDN deployment, direct peering) – establishing and managing the business relationship.
  • Working closely with the engineering team and marketing team to manage IPX traffic capacity – for new or capacity upgrade for hosted CDN, direct peering and/or IPTX.
Duties & Responsibilities
  • Custodian of mid-term network strategy, architecture for IPX setup.
  • Track, manage IPX capacity requirement and traffic projection; plan and implement capacity upgrade, and new content partner introduction.
  • Control and improve IPX delivery cost and user data experience; with localization of contents (introduction of new content partner via CDN or direct peering), and minimizing IPTX traffic ratio.
  • Represent U Mobile in IPX related industry forums; establish and manages good business relationship with all major content partners, IX data centers providers, and IPTX providers.
  • Lead RFP / RFQ for IPX projects, e.g. hosted CDN deployment, new / upgrade of direct peering, IPTX provider award.
  • Support the yearly budget planning (AOP) for IPX – Capex and Opex.

Job Requirement

1. Education/ What people Know:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical/Electronic/Telecommunications Engineering
2. Experience/ What people Have Done:
  • Min 7 years working experience in IPX or related roles.
  • Project experience in deployment of CDN, direct peering and IPTX.
  • Knowledge and experience in industry best practices for IPX.
  • Experience in budget / AOP planning, and exposure of network security is a plus point.
3. Competencies/ What people Can Do:
  • Strong technical knowledge in IPX architecture and topology design.
  • Good IP engineering design and implementation knowledge.
  • Strong acumen of technical and business.
4. Personal Attributes/ Who people Are:
  • Good critical thinking and attentive to details.
  • Self-motivated, ability to learn fast and good in communication skills.

What’s Next ?
Once you have applied online, our team will review your application and due to a high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be notified.