RAN Virtualization Engineer- Staffing

KGP Telecommunications•Plano, TX

12h

About The Position

A highly skilled and results-driven RAN Virtualization OA&M Engineer with extensive experience in OAMP/FCAPS/OSS knowledge/experience for EMS/NMS and RAN network elements. This role involves integrating and troubleshooting OAMP/FCAPS subsystems in wireless networks, providing Tier 3 SME support for commercial NMS/EMS application issues, and collaborating with R&D for root cause analysis. The engineer will also assist Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in developing product requirements, conducting customer sessions, introducing new technologies like 4G/5G RAN Network Management features and virtualized networks, and analyzing customer requirements to create system requirements and detailed designs. Additionally, the role includes technical management of new products and software releases, providing technical support in the pre-sales process, translating complex technical designs between sales teams and carriers, and working with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product roll-outs and customer commitments. Sporadic travel may be required.

Requirements

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.
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.
Must have understanding of EMS applications, TR-069, Netconf protocol, YANG models & Restful APIs.
Understanding of Hardware and Software architecture is a must.
Must have hands-on experience with High Availability and redundancy systems.
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.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree is preferred.
Understanding of Automation & Orchestration frameworks is preferred (knowledge in the ETSI MANO specifications, OASIS TOSCA, ONAP).
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.
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.
Experience with Web based development including JVM, J2EE, (EJB), JAVA, JavaScript, Web Services, HTML, XML, SOAP is preferred.

Responsibilities

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 R&D to achieve successful new product roll-outs and developments.
Ensures that customer commitments are achieved according to plan.