Mobile Transport Planning & Optimization Engineer (5G)

P.I. Works; Canada; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

P. I. Works is seeking a telecom transport engineer in Canada to develop end-to-end HLD/LLD solutions for microwave, IP/MPLS, optical, and enterprise networks.

You will perform path planning, capacity dimensioning, and interference analysis while auditing network performance and ensuring QoS, synchronization, and resilience. The role requires strong analytical skills, experience with NMS/EMS and RAN OSS platforms, and fluent English communication; collaboration with RAN/Core/Optical teams is

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications, Electrical, Electronics, Computer, or related Engineering.
• Strong knowledge of 2G/3G/4G/5G transport architecture, including fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul.
• Experience in microwave and mobile transport planning and optimization.
• Proficiency with Ellipse, Atoll, Pathloss, or similar planning tools.
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP, Ethernet, VLAN, MPLS, routing, QoS, and traffic engineering.
• Hands-on experience with transport NMS/EMS and RAN OSS platforms such as NCE, NSP, ENM, NetAct, or iMaster.
• Knowledge of microwave, routing, switching, optical transport, SyncE, PTP, and NTP.
• Experience in GIS, KPI analysis, time-series data, probes, and benchmarking tools.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and reporting skills.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Develop HLD and LLD solutions for microwave, IP/MPLS, optical, and enterprise transport networks.
• Perform microwave path planning, link-budget calculations, frequency planning, interference analysis, and capacity dimensioning.
• Audit transport network capacity, configuration, quality, resilience, and performance.
• Monitor KPIs such as utilization, throughput, latency, jitter, packet loss, availability, and congestion.
• Troubleshoot performance issues and provide optimization and capacity-expansion recommendations.
• Design and validate QoS, redundancy, route diversity, and synchronization solutions.
• Support rollout, modernization, migration, acceptance, and service-readiness activities.
• Coordinate with RAN, Core, IP, Optical, and Operations teams.

Skills

Microwave transport planning

IP/MPLS transport architecture

TCP/IP & routing

Network performance analysis

KPI analysis

Analytical skills

Python

SQL

Power BI

Grafana

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, Electrical, Electronics, Computer, or related Engineering

Tools

Ellipse

Atoll

Pathloss

NCE

NSP

ENM

NetAct

iMaster

Job description

P. I. Works is seeking a telecom transport engineer in Canada to develop end-to-end HLD/LLD solutions for microwave, IP/MPLS, optical, and enterprise networks.

You will perform path planning, capacity dimensioning, and interference analysis while auditing network performance and ensuring QoS, synchronization, and resilience. The role requires strong analytical skills, experience with NMS/EMS and RAN OSS platforms, and fluent English communication; collaboration with RAN/Core/Optical teams is