Network Consultant II - India

Lumen Technologies India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen Technologies India is seeking a Senior Planning Engineer (Access Planning) to support APAC network architecture, ensuring capacity, cost management, and alignment with vendor partnerships and network expansion.

You will lead cross‑functional projects, audit legacy inventories, optimize netex, and collaborate with field and carrier teams to deliver reliable, scalable access networks across regions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of related telecom/network experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; master’s preferred.
• Experience with Ethernet, DIA, IPVPN, MPLS, SD‑WAN, Wavelength, and Transport technologies.
• Strong understanding of Data Center Operations and connectivity planning.
• Hands‑on knowledge of MPLS networks, WAN technologies, and enterprise connectivity.
• Proven experience coordinating with multiple ISPs and telecom carriers.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Exceptional organizational, prioritization, and communications skills
• Proficient with Excel, Access, Visio, and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Understand current on‑net and off‑net architecture to ensure capacity and efficiency.
• Audit legacy netex inventories across multiple platforms.
• Drive cost savings and optimization targets.
• Analyze capacity, design and diversity using documented processes.
• Manage cross‑functional projects with limited guidance.
• Engage stakeholders to improve workflows and buy‑offs.
• Coordinate with vendors to support access planning and network expansion.
• Evaluate new market opportunities and business cases.

Skills

Access architecture

Layer 1-3 networking

Ethernet

DIA

IPVPN

MPLS

SD-WAN

Wavelength

Data Center Operations

MPLS/WAN connectivity

ISP coordination

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Excel

Access

Visio

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Excel

Access

Visio

SQL

Job description

Senior Planning Engineer: Access Planning

Responsible for supporting Lumen’s off-net network architecture in Asia Pacific. Ensures optimal design and capacity utilization requirements. Supports the company strategy around vendor partnerships, network expansion, and incremental and embedded cost management. Assimilates various internal and external customer requirements, creates new network capacity solutions, assembles the required equipment augment costs and budgets and participates in the overall network augment approval and trigger process. Undertakes specific network simplification and network enablement projects.

The Main Responsibilities

Supporting The APAC Business On The Following

• Understands current on-net and off-net network architecture and technology to ensure capacity and efficiency of the groom plans and network expansion.
• Auditing various legacy company netex inventories from offnet lease and IRU across multiple network platforms.
• Show proficiency in auditing various legacy company netex bases and researching an array of systems, contracts and tariffs. Help drive savings and help the company meet its annual optimization targets.
• Analyzes capacity, design and diversity issues by applying documented processes and guidelines. Exercises considerable latitude in decision‑making under limited consultative direction toward predetermined long‑range targets.
• Work moderate to complex projects with cross‑functional teams and with limited guidance. Seek or provide guidance as necessary to gain support and develop cross‑functional expertise.
• Stakeholder engagement (internal and external) aimed at risk mitigation and complex problem resolution. Identifies critical APAC specific Flight Deck / Netbuild workflows required to improve efficiencies, define roles and responsibilities, and enable performance tracking. With support from leadership engage with business process team and other stakeholders to initiate support and drive the creation of improved workflow and buy‑off from all impacted groups.
• Is capable of managing multiple complex assignments simultaneously, on schedule and within budget.
• Works with project management, supporting teams and leadership to define intervals for complex projects and BAU activities.
• Demonstrates critical thinking, complex analysis, and solution development under the guidelines of standard practices and policies, while applying judgment to optimize solutions.
• Interfaces with cross functional teams to deliver “Customer First” requirements with the operational teams including Service Delivery, Complex Offnet Quoting Group, Field Operations and Customer Support Organization.
• Supports Business Process function to translate workflow models and document end to end process flows internally to individual teams as well as inter‑departmental flows with Network Planning and Implementation, Carrier Relationship Managers, Field Operations and Service Delivery.
• Supports the transition away from legacy technologies (TDM, SDH platforms) with vendors; co‑ordinate with vendors to deliver new local access technologies as well as co‑ordinate with end customers to minimize downtime and maximize customer experience through the process.
• Produces and maintains diagrams of the Lumen APAC Network with varying levels of detail for the appropriate audience.
• Actively pursue opportunities to reduce costs, improve reliability and enhance customer experience.
• Drive network cost optimization initiatives through on‑net migration, off‑net reduction, site exits, and network simplification projects.
• Manage vendor relationships to support access planning and network expansion activities.
• Evaluate new market opportunities and support business cases for network growth initiatives.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience. 8+ years related experience. 4 years w/ master’s degree or equivalent work experience preferred.

• Extensive understanding of access architecture, market analysis and telecom industry
• Strong understanding of Layer 1, Layer 2, and Layer 3 networking concepts.
• Experience with Ethernet, DIA, IPVPN, MPLS, SD‑WAN, Wavelength, and Transport technologies.
• Strong understanding of Data Center Operations and connectivity planning.
• Hands‑on knowledge of MPLS networks, WAN technologies, and enterprise connectivity.
• Proven experience coordinating with multiple Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and telecom carriers.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Exceptional organizational, prioritization, and communications skills
• Strong computer skills with emphasis on Microsoft Excel, Access, Visio, and SQL
• Able to exemplify Lumen behaviors: Teamwork, Trust, Transparency, Respect, Courage, Customer Obsession, Clarity, and Growth Mindset
• High energy individual with solid entrepreneurial spirit that is always looking to maximize efficiencies and optimize netex.
• Ability to work effectively across borders and cultures with customers, vendors, and employees outside of “home” region