Senior 5G Technical Consultant
About The Position
This role has been designed as 'Onsite' with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE partner/customer office. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work, helping companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud. The company fosters a culture that thrives on innovation, values varied backgrounds, and offers flexibility to manage work and personal needs. As part of the Public 5G Global Technology Center (GTC), the HSS Delivery Engineer (Senior 5G Technical Consultant) 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 role involves ensuring seamless integration of these solutions into customer core networks, covering design preparation, deployment, system optimization, laboratory testing, production launch, and post-launch support. The engineer serves 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)
- 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
- Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial and emotional wellbeing
- Programs catered to helping you reach any career goals, whether becoming a knowledge expert or applying skills to another division
- Unconditionally inclusive work environment that celebrates individual uniqueness
- Flexibility to manage work and personal needs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
