Network Design Professional - RAN Automation

Working Style: 3 days a week from office, 2 days from home

About the role

Being able to provide consistent network performance is critically important to all our customers (BT, PlusNet, EE and Emergency Service Network), achieved through implementation of agreed parameter designs and implementation of efficient process automation through python coding and robotic process automation.

The output of this role has a direct impact on

• Continual improvement of configuration processes through design and implementation of automated deployment tasks.
• Design of Self Optimising Network routines specific to the BT Radio Access Network, by writing code using Python and analytics of data held in GCP and AWS

What you’ll be doing

• You will be working in a team to write python code to automate processes to improve the performance of the radio network. Using the Nokia Manta Ray SON (MR-SON) tool.
• Implementation of configuration plans to the network, including working outside of normal office hours.
• Working with configuration processes of Network Element Managers and auditing the network data using the WIM Unison system for 2G, 4G and 5G RAN.
• Designing open and closed loop automations using Unison and MR-SON, through Python based software development kits.
• You will also be a member of the RAN transformation programme to support the automation of manual processes across the various departments of Radio Access Networks. Using the BluePrism RPA tool.
• Ensuring that all systems introduced adhere to GDPR and Security Policies (such as TSA & Copass / CGP).

Essential Skills / Experience

• Practical experience in PYTHON programmig, and ability to develop to an advance level.
• Excellent data analytical skills, with the ability to present findings and derive technical and business recommendations.
• Manipulating & interpreting multiple sources of complex data to derive both technical design guidelines and strategic recommendations.
• An understanding of IT environments.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience of working with databases and SQL.
• Understanding of Mobile Radio Network GERAN/UTRAN/EUTRAN/OSS architectures and the design and operational processes to develop and run the network.
• Mobile Telecommunication background.
• Knowledge of Virtualisation.
• Experience of working with cloud hosted data such as Google Cloud Platform. 

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life.
You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalized maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.
Ready to connect for good and help shape the future? Apply now

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good.  Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers. 

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country.   Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.