Senior 5G Technical Consultant

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Seattle, WA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company, helping companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications from edge to cloud. The company fosters a culture that values varied backgrounds, flexibility, and bold moves. This Senior 5G Technical Consultant role, part of the Public 5G Global Technology Center (GTC), is responsible for the end-to-end delivery and operation of HPE mobile core network solutions, including 5G network functions (AUSM, UDM, UDR, UDSF) and 4G I-HSS components. The position involves ensuring seamless integration into customer core networks, covering design preparation, deployment, system optimization, laboratory testing, production launch, and post-launch support. The consultant will serve as a key technical interface between customers, partners, and internal HPE teams, driving delivery execution and resolving technical challenges throughout the project lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent
• Minimum 8 years of experience in telecom
• Telecom and networking experience (4G/5G Mobile Core Networks, 3GPP standards)
• Cloud-native and virtualization experience
• Good written and spoken English
• Experience working with mobile core network products, including HLR, HSS, and UDM
• Experience in end-to-end HSS/UDM delivery
• Experience operating mission-critical production systems
• Strong knowledge of 3GPP standards and subscriber call flows for 3G/4G/5G core networks
• Cloud-native experience with platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift and Azure Operator Nexus
• Virtualization experience with Red Hat KVM and VMware/vSphere
• Strong Linux system administration skills
• Working knowledge of public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Strong understanding of security principles and best practices
• Experience with infrastructure tuning and optimization
• Ability to work under high workload peaks and tight deadlines
• High adaptability to cross-cultural and global working environments

Nice To Haves

• Experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g. Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/Kibana, distributed tracing such as Jaeger)
• End-to-end performance optimization expertise across the full stack (hardware and BIOS, virtualization layer, and application level) is a strong plus
• Experience in application test automation (Simulap experience is a plus)

Responsibilities

• Deploy, test, and troubleshoot 5G network functions (AUSM, UDM, UDR, UDSF) and 4G I-HSS components (HLR, EPS-HSS, IMS-HSS, EIR, MNP)
• Deliver and operate mission-critical production systems in line with reliability, availability, and risk-management best practices
• Perform system and infrastructure tuning to meet performance, reliability, and security requirements
• Ensure security-driven delivery aligned with security best practices
• Monitor, assess, and remediate security vulnerabilities, including validation and rollout of security patches in production environments
• Plan and execute software upgrades and lifecycle activities for laboratory systems primarily but limited to only
• Drive end-to-end solution delivery in coordination with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders
• Manage services during laboratory testing, production launch and oversee deployed production solutions
• Monitor system health, performance, and capacity using monitoring and observability tools to proactively identify operational risks
• Investigate and resolve laboratory incidents and drive root cause analysis
• Handle customer acceptance and internal testing, from on-site
• Ensure delivery quality through automated testing and regression validation
• Drive case management and prioritization in collaboration with product stakeholders to meet customer and project requirements
• Execute production changes following established change and risk-management processes
• Demonstrate strong ownership and autonomous delivery with minimal supervision
• Produce and maintain delivery and operational documentation to support system lifecycle and handover
• Deliver workshops for project handover and knowledge transfer
• Mentor junior team members
• Contribute to continuous improvement of delivery, operational, and observability practices

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing: comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial and emotional wellbeing
• Personal & Professional Development: investment in career growth, programs to reach career goals, opportunity to become a knowledge expert or apply skills to another division
• Unconditional Inclusion: inclusive work environment, valuing varied backgrounds, flexibility to manage work and personal needs
• Variable incentives may also be offered

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees