RAN Virtualization & OAMP/OSS Engineer - Further Enterprise Solutions

Job Title: RAN Virtualization & OAMP/OSS Engineer

Location: Plano, TX

Expected duration: 12 months

Description:  

Must have skills:
*OAMP/FCAPS subsystem deployment, integration, support in wireless networks. (Minimum 5 years of experience)
*NMS/EMS --> Network/ Element Management System. (Minimum 5 years of experience)
*Virtualization specifically NFV- Network Function Virtualization. (Minimum 1 year experience)

Essential Duties and responsibilities include:
•       OAMP/FCAPS subsystem integration and troubleshooting in wireless networks.
•       Tier3 SME experience – Work under pressure to drive support teams to troubleshoot commercial NMS/EMS application issues, propose workarounds, and work with R&D to provide the RCA (Root Cause Analysis) to the customer.
•       Assist SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) with development of product requirements, feature requirements, systems and performance analysis, Work with the team to conduct deep-dive customer sessions, new technology introduction of 4G/5G RAN Network Management features and introduction of virtualized networks
•       Assist SMEs with analysis of the customer requirements, converting them into system requirements and capturing of detail design for the development team.
•       Assist SMEs Technical Management of new products and SW releases to ensure that promised features are delivered with expected performance
•       Provides technical support in the pre-sales process and creates compelling technical and commercial solutions in order to help achieve the assigned sales goals and business objectives.
•       Translates and communicates complex technical design considerations between the sales team and carriers’ network business.
•       Works closely with various support organizations and cross- functional teams from SEA and R&D to achieve successful new product roll-outs and developments.
•       Ensures that customer commitments are achieved according to plan.
•       Ability to travel sporadically during the project.

Background & Competencies Required:
•       Minimum 5 years of OAMP/FCAPS/OSS knowledge/experience for EMS/NMS and RAN network elements.
•       Minimum 1 year of EMS/NMS and RAN (vCU/vDU) Network Function Virtualization (NFV) experience.
•       Bachelor’s degree in EE/CS/TE is required. Master’s degree is preferred.
•       Must have experience with OAMP/FCAPS subsystem design and development in wireless networks.
•       Must have experience authoring and implementing EMS/NMS/NE SW upgrade MOPs in commercial networks.
•       Must have Tier3 SME experience – Work under pressure to drive support teams to troubleshoot commercial NMS/EMS application issues, propose workarounds, work with R&D to provide the RCA (Root Cause Analysis) to the customer.
•       Understanding of Automation & Orchestration frameworks is preferred (knowledge in the ETSI MANO specifications, OASIS TOSCA, ONAP).
•       Must have understanding of EMS applications, TR-069, Netconf protocol, YANG models & Restful APIs.
•       Fundamental understanding of Openstack/Kubernetes is preferred.
•       Understanding of virtual switches, network connections, Virtual port types (ie: SR-IOV, VirtIO), Security Groups, VLANs and in configuring Storage such as SAN / NAS / iSCSI is preferred.
•       Experience in performance measurement & tuning of VMware/Openstack servers and Virtual sessions and management of servers resources between virtual machines is preferred.
•       Understanding of 3GPP systems: Core and RAN networks, architecture and protocols is preferred.
•       Understanding of Hardware and Software architecture is a must.
•       Must have hands-on experience with High Availability and redundancy systems.
•       Experience on system engineering projects to include technical requirements identification, technical solutions to address customer requirements with details to design /deploy / manage their infrastructure is preferred.
•       Must have troubleshooting experience using command-line tools and scripts
•       Must have experience with SNMP and TNM protocols and NMS/OSS interfaces.
•       Must have experience with Unix/Linux, scripting tools like PERL, TCL, shell.
•       Experience with Web based development including JVM, J2EE, (EJB), JAVA, JavaScript, Web Services, HTML, XML, SOAP is preferred.