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Engineering Manager
About this role
Aldelia Limited is seeking an Engineering Manager in Oyo. The role involves leading IP and transmission engineering activities within a telecoms-focused environment, guiding network strategy, design, deployment and governance. The position targets someone with substantial experience in IP, backbone or transmission engineering, plus prior team leadership. The company provides global recruitment services for oil and gas, emphasising local content and international candidate sourcing. The advert lists extensive responsibilities across network architecture, deployment, security, operations and vendor management, with a strong emphasis on leadership and cross-functional coordination.
What you would do
- Define the IP and transmission strategy, architecture, and investment priorities aligned with growth and expansion.
- Design and govern carrier-grade IP/MPLS networks across core to access domains.
- Plan and manage metro and long-haul optical networks including DWDM and related technologies.
- Oversee internet, peering, interconnection, and carrier relationships to optimise cost and performance.
- Forecast IP traffic, capacity, wavelengths and bandwidth to prevent congestion.
- Oversee end-to-end network deployment from design to commissioning and acceptance.
- Implement high availability and disaster recovery across critical paths and nodes.
- Ensure 24/7 monitoring, performance management and escalation protocols.
- Lead major incident response, root cause analysis and permanent fixes.
- Support IP and transmission projects for Presales and Commercial teams and engage in security and governance activities.
What they are asking for
- Bachelor degree in Telecommunications, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field (Master is an advantage).
- At least 8 years of progressive IP, backbone or transmission engineering experience in telecom environments.
- At least 3 years in team leadership or senior engineering responsibilities.
- Strong knowledge of BGP, OSPF/IS-IS, MPLS, L2/L3 VPNs, QoS, IPv4/IPv6 and traffic engineering.
- Hands-on experience with DWDM, OTN and metro/long-haul fibre systems; SDH experience useful.
- Experience managing transit, peering, carrier interconnection, dark fibre and diverse backbone paths.
- Experience with carrier-grade platforms from Cisco, Juniper, Nokia, Huawei, Ciena or equivalent.
- Knowledge of SNMP, telemetry, NetFlow and configuration management.
- Ability to plan capacity, prepare specifications/BoQs, evaluate vendors and deliver projects.
- Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills; English fluency required.
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