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Salary: 150k – 200k

Key Responsibilities

• Design, plan, and manage the expansion of company’s core infrastructure across Kenya and potentially neighboring countries, ensuring that it meets both existing and future requirements for capacity, path diversity, and redundancy.
• Develop, implement, and maintain policies, procedures, and associated training plans for network infrastructure design, installation, and maintenance.
• Develop and manage a team of Solution engineers that can scope and design leading technical solutions to meet customer requirements.
• Manage and ensure optimal operation of all network infrastructure assets, including power solutions, routers, switches, hubs, and so on. Assess, approve, and administer all network infrastructure equipment.
• Negotiate with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to secure network infrastructure products and services.
• Establish and monitor service level agreements with upstream data providers to enable the company to meet target customer service level agreements.
• Provide input to RFPs, bid proposals, contracts, scope of work reports, and other documentation for sales proposals and associated efforts.
• Perform infrastructure cost modelling, including cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to support decision-making.
• Manage and monitor network infrastructure performance, provide network performance statistics and reports, and develop strategies for optimizing network performance.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering /HND/ Diploma (or related technical field) with a bias in Telecomm.
• 5 years of relevant experience, managing complex projects for small and large scale telecoms and/or ISPs in challenging environments such as remote/rural areas
• People leadership and management skills – at least 3 years of managerial experience
• Broad experience of Core Infrastructure Network Planning, Design, Implementation and Maintenance experience, including power solutions, wireless carrier builds, and transmission set up.
• “Technical guru” in wired and wireless networks – at least 5 years in Wired (Copper and Optical Fiber Communication) and Wireless (Licensed and Unlicensed Radio Microwave Communication Systems) network set up.
• Effective with people – demonstrated ability to build and energize teams
• Well organized, highly motivated – strong “can-do” attitude, disciplined and process-oriented execution
• Creative problem solver that thrives on challenges and can cope with limited resources
• Able to perform financial modelling for the purpose of creating needs assessments, budgets, and forecasting.
• Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment and make sound decisions in emergency situations.
• Able to present technical ideas and concepts in a user-friendly language
• Strong customer service orientation.
• Team-oriented, collaborative working style.
• Willingness and flexibility to travel for extended periods of time, potentially at short notice.