Company Summary:

Bluecom Subsidiary Company that is Internet Service Provider arm of Somtel company of one of the companies under Dahabshiil Group, Dahabshiil Group, the fastest growing business group with interests in financial services, banking, telecommunications, real estate, and energy & power sectors among others. plans to recruit Wireless Network Engineer - Bluecom Somaliland, who will oversee Bluecom wireless network design and implementation activities in Somaliland.

General Position Summary:

Wireless Engineering is for planning, designing, implementing and managing wireless networks, develop SOPs and manuals, facilitate technical trainings.

Essential Job Functions:

• Devise, plan, deploy, and improve wireless networks from the beginning to implementation by collaborating with vendors, managers, and network engineers.
• Understand client requirements to be able to cater to their appropriate needs.
• Handhold other in-house engineers to train them on wireless technologies, besides guiding other non-technical people.
• Design and validate the performance, quality, and reliability of the RF link.
• Design and implement WLANs and other wireless networks.
• Write manuals and document current network procedures.
• Have extensive knowledge of routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP).
• Make use of enterprise monitoring tools cMeastro, OpManager, SolarWind etc.
• Optimize network performance by supervising performance, addressing network problems and breakdowns, and partnering with network engineers to optimize the network.
• Develop and implement policies and classify and oversee access to protect network systems.
• Make sure that all equipment, including servers and the other network products, are well-connected.
• Devise and support radio frequencies (RF) link performance, reliability, and quality.
• Enable data and system protection by developing and maintaining mechanisms for backing up and retrieval.
• Collaborate with different teams to ensure the optimized performance of VoIP and other wireless telecommunication devices.
• Work with security team to evaluate threats, troubleshoot issues, and comply with appropriate security configuration standards of their organizations.
• Design and deploy changes to the configurations of clients as per the applicable change management process.
• Proactively handle all network security solutions.
• Make use of testing and diagnostic tools to assess and modify equipment.
• Any other duties as requested by the Technology Department Head

Supervisory Responsibility:

Team of Section

Accountability

Reports Directly To: Technical Director-BlueKom

Works Directly With:

Somtel Team, Other section of Bluecom

Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree of ICT/Telecom or other related field
• Strong knowledge of Wireless planning
• Very Good knowledge and experience in RF Design and planning
• 1-3 plus Year Experience in RF Planning & Design.
• Planning and organizing skills,
• Quick learner, hard worker, good commercial awareness
• Fluent in English and the local language.
• Quality Assurance of Fiber Execution Work.
• Proficient and fluent in spoken and written English Language

Environmental Conditions

This position is based in Hargeisa, Somaliland and is unaccompanied. Travel within Somaliland is required to support all Somaliland's offices. This position is eligible for very completive salary package and other benefits as per our Human Resource policy.

Bluecom Team members represent the company and Dahabshiil Group both during and outside of work hours when deployed in a field posting or on a visit to a field posting. Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and company's policies, procedures, and values always and in all in-country venues.

Fostering a diverse and open workplace is an important part of Dahabshiil group's vision. We are s an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of background. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment.

How to Apply

Written applications should be addressed to:

Somtel Human Resource,

Somtel SL

Qualified candidates are invited to submit their applications by submitting a detailed CV and Cover letter as a single document via Email: hr@somtelnetwork.net to be received on or before 10^th Oct, 2022 with the subject line ''Wireless Engineer -BlueKom

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.