Evolved Packet Core Engineer

Dublin  ‐ Onsite
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Description

EVOLVED PACKET CORE DESIGN ENGINEER

Leading Telecoms organisation currently looking for a Core Network Engineer to work on EPC/LTE contributing to the design environment and delivery of an outstanding network experience.

This role resides in the Core Networks Design team; accountable for ensuring the delivery of all Designs for LTE EPC, LTE IMS, CS/PS core, and Interconnect management.

The role will report into the Core Design Manager, and will perform vendor management for any outsourced design services, ensuring wrap-around design continuity towards VAS, Service Layer, RAN, Transmission, IP, IT, and Service Delivery, as well as towards Test and Ops for both strategic and development change for the Core Networks.

Your role encompasses all aspects of the development of the future network (design/add, change and/or increase the networks services and resources for capacity, features and functionality). Whilst you`ll act as a point of technical accountability, you will work with functional stakeholders to ensure that the right responsibility levels are established - working to exercise influence without direct authority.

You will be responsible for the day to day activities of the Core Design team`s LTE EPC roadmap from a design, development and inter-working perspective while assisting in driving programme agility, efficiency and excellence. Your approach will be customer focused and aligned to the commercial goals of the business. You`ll also drive our values in day to day technical and operational decision making.

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with VAS and Core Solution team to ensure end-to-end design management, and prioritisation of the Business.
  • Collaborate with RAN and Transmission team to ensure end-to-end design management, and prioritisation of the Business.
  • Collaborate with Core Programme Delivery team to ensure that Project and Programme Plans are built up in a realistic manner that takes into account all internal and external dependencies to the Core Network, and that uses realistic but aggressive delivery timelines.
  • Collaborate with the Test Function to ensure the team are directly involved in testing, or indirectly observing the tests being performed per project, to ensure ERN (Engineering Release Notes) can be approved.
  • Collaborate with Core Operations to ensure design process outputs are translated into accurate node configuration and Method of Procedure integration documentation.

Key Skills:

Must Have

  • 8+ years telecoms experience with at least 4 years in planning and design. Previous Core Design experience including performance and capacity management.
  • Proven track record in striving for continuous improvement and driving efficiencies, whilst maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction.
  • Excellent leadership and influencing skills to drive Core Design Team deliverables and collaboration with other Networks and IT departments
  • Design and deployment experience of key network systems/nodes (for example MME & SAE-GW) through the full delivery life cycle from initial design to full operational handover.
  • Excellent working knowledge of EPC/IMS/LTE architecture, interfaces and procedures, with understanding of key LTE associated technologies and functionality including IMS, RCSe, VoLTE, SRVCC and CSFB.
  • Good working knowledge of 3GPP, IETF and GSMA standards and architectures.
  • Good understanding of Operational and Business support systems.
  • Good practical skills in troubleshooting and fault resolution on an end to end basis
  • Project life cycle understanding.
  • Good time management and ability to work to deadlines.
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with an ability to engage different areas of the business at varying levels of technical capability.

Nice to Have:

  • Good working knowledge of 3G MCC elements and associated interfaces, including key protocols eg GTP, DIAMETER, RADIUS, SIGTRAN, BICC, MAP, Cap and INAP etc.
  • Experience of working with NSN/Samsung core network systems.
  • VoIP/VoLTE/VToW deployment and testing experience
  • Working knowledge of IP Networks, preferably with experience with the prime IP vendor equipment: Cisco/Juniper network certification also nice to have.

To apply for this role please send an updated CV to (see below)

Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
3 months
From
Project People
Published at
22.04.2017
Project ID:
1330049
Contract type
Freelance
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