Network Transmission Specialist

Role: Network Transmission Specialist

Location: JHB

Role type: Permanent 

Are you a transmission engineer who lives in the detail: who can design a DWDM link in the morning, troubleshoot a microwave fade in the afternoon, and still push a rollout forward by end of day? We're looking for a Network Transmission Specialist to join our client, one of South Africa's most technically capable backbone infrastructure operators - with a national fibre and wireless footprint built for serious capacity.

You'll own the transmission layer - microwave, fibre, and DWDM - across planning, performance, and rollout. This isn't a monitoring role. You'll be designing links, resolving complex faults, expanding capacity, and pushing infrastructure into new territories alongside commercial and field teams. High ownership, real infrastructure, no hand-holding.

Job Responsibilities:

• Designing and planning microwave, fibre, and DWDM transmission systems — link budgets, frequency plans, path profiles


• Monitoring and troubleshooting performance across the transmission layer before issues become outages


• Commissioning new sites and managing vendors through the full deployment lifecycle


• Coordinating fault resolution with NOC, field teams, and third parties to meet SLA targets


• Contributing to capacity planning, RCA investigations, and long-term network evolution


• Keeping architecture documentation, as-built records, and network diagrams current and accurate

What we're looking for

• 5–10 years of hands-on transmission engineering experience in telecoms


• Deep expertise across microwave, fibre optic systems, and DWDM


• Solid grasp of SDH/PDH, OTN, and transport network fundamentals


• Comfortable working with NMS platforms and transmission monitoring tools


• IP/MPLS over transport experience is a strong advantage


• A degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Telecoms — or equivalent practical depth

Why Our Client:

• Work on backbone infrastructure that actually matters at scale


• A technical culture that respects engineering depth and rewards it


• Exposure to cutting-edge transmission technology with room to grow as the network does


• Competitive package and a team that ships