Senior IMS Core Planning Engineer

About the role

Huawei is seeking a Senior IMS Core Planning Engineer to join its Islamabad team. The role focuses on planning, capacity analysis, and optimization of the IMS core network, supporting project integration and new node deployments.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor network utilization, growth trends, traffic forecasting and capacity across IMS core elements.
• Analyze daily and weekly health‑check reports, degraded KPIs and alarms, providing root‑cause analysis and major incident reviews.
• Manage CapEx planning, budget forecasting, BOM preparation, RFP creation and technical tender evaluations.
• Coordinate with telecom vendors, contractors and internal departments to evaluate technical solutions and ensure safe network commissioning.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in core network planning, specifically within the IMS domain.
• Strong troubleshooting abilities and effective communication with technical customers at all levels.

Required skills

• Expert knowledge of IMS core call flows and scenarios (3GPP, GSMA, IEEE, ETSI).
• Proficiency with IMS core nodes (CSCF, ATS, OCS, CCF, IM‑MGW, SBC, PCRF) and protocols (SIP, Diameter, H.248).
• Hands‑on experience using tracing tools such as Wireshark, IRIS and Tektronix equipment.
• Capacity analysis, network design and optimization techniques.