Mobility and Optical Consulting Engineer

What You Will Do:

Consulting engineer supporting a lab in the 4G/5G domain is expected to have a combination of technical expertise, operational skills, and customer engagement capabilities tailored to the complexities of 4G and 5G network technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Providing Network Optimization Services
• Provide software support for incremental changes to the architecture, network and applicable devices.
• Lab Validation and Consulting Support
• Escalation and Non-Scheduled Change Management Support
  • Provide or help expedite restoration of service by offering knowledge of the network
  • Design Collaboration - Provide the following services under this Service A. Consult with Customer networking staff in a series of meetings to develop a thorough understanding of Customer Network design requirements, with a focus on concerns such as resiliency, self-recovery, scalability, and ability to handle increased traffic demands
  • Provide current and incremental Network design and architecture consultation.
  • Provide ongoing information on design related to security alerts that may impact key Network Products.
  • Implementation Plan Review - Evaluate the potential impact of the proposed scheduled change, review implementation procedures, and be available to assist to resolve problems with Network Hardware and configuration during a major deployment into a live Network
  • Knowledge Transfer Sessions – Conduct/participate in knowledge transfer sessions in collaboration with management, to provide informal training about their deployed infrastructure, tailored to their needs and infrastructure.
  • Schedule Change Support – Schedule and provide change support activity which minimizes the potential for error during scheduled changes prior to executing the change in the network.

Essential Criteria:

• Software Support - Support for incremental changes to the architecture, network and applicable devices
• Lab Validation and Consulting Support
• Escalation and Non-Scheduled Change Management Support
• Design Collaboration
• Implementation Plan Review

Desirable Criteria:

• Deep understanding of 4G and 5G technologies: Knowledge of 3GPP/3GPP2 standards, including 5G SA/NSA architectures, Service-Based Architecture (SBA), Service Mesh, network functions (AMF, SMF, UPF, PCF), network slicing, VPP, Data modeling technique like fragmentation, p2p and content filtering.
• Network function virtualization and cloud-native technologies: Ability to work with NFVI, virtualization, and cloud-native deployments, working experience of Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift and microservices.
• Networking knowledge: Strong in layer 2/3 networking, strong knowledge of BGP, BFD, IS-IS, OSPF and static routes.
• Test automation and release management: Skill in automated testing, python3, unix, shell scripting.
• System Engineering: Scaling testing, System Engineering, Performance and Call model