Google Job Opportunity in Kampala,Uganda; Access Technical Program Manager

Job Title:    Access Technical Program Manager
Job Location:    Kampala, Uganda
Employer:    Google

About  Google:
The Google.org Access Development team's objective is to bring broadband to emerging markets in a financially sustainable and scalable way to impact hundreds of millions of people. The group focuses on developing business models, regulation and technology to support these goals. There is a strong emphasis on bringing new technologies or new ways to use technologies to solve the access challenges in these markets.

The Google Access team works to make Internet access more robust, accessible, and affordable for all. The group is focused on developing next-generation technologies and applying existing technologies in new ways, as well as encouraging business models and regulation that can improve broadband access around the globe.

The Access Strategy Team drives the access strategy for Google, seeking the creation of more and faster broadband pipes, preserving the openness of the wired Internet and bringing the open ethos of the wired Internet to the wireless world. In partnership with teams across the company, the team develops products, makes strategic investments and influences public policy to achieve these goals.

Job Overview:
The Google Access Technical program manager will be mainly responsible for defining and implementing access projects, as well as identifying and incubating promising technologies that can have an impact on the global Access challenge.

Job Requirements:

•     Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
•     2 years' experience in a telecommunications field.

Preferred qualifications

•     Experience selecting, hiring and managing contractors, working effectively with permitting and other government agencies and large, cross-functional teams.
•     Experience creating network drawings, route maps and scopes of work.
•     Experience using Google Earth.
•     A deep understanding of core and access transmission network design using SDH, DWDM and IP technologies and of inside and outside plant fiber optic network infrastructure.
•     Ability to interpret OTDR Trace and Power Meter test results and audit projects for compliance with scopes of work.
•     Comfort using drafting software such as CAD.

Job Duties:

• Control the outside plant implementation of the fiber network and oversee the implementation of network integration undertaken by equipment suppliers and contractors.
• Manage the day to day network operations oversight with country level NOC contractor personnel to ensure SLAs are being met.
• Coordinate and manage the communication between the cross functional teams, equipment suppliers and fiber contractors, NOC personnel or any other deployment and operations support related matters.
• Support the development of operations dashboards, processes and procedures along with training programs and documentation.
• Oversee all escalated network issues and resolve the same in coordination with cross functional teams.

Deadline Date: 28/04/2014

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