Job Title: RAN Virtualization OA&M Engineer
Location: Plano, TX
Duration: 12 months
Description:
• 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 Samsung sales team and carriers’ network business.
• Works closely with various support organizations and cross- functional teams from SEA and Samsung 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.
Success Criteria:
Technical Acumen
• Key contributor in driving the technical solutions to customer through complex organizational dynamics
Presentations Skills
• Leveraging your ability to communicate effectively with all levels of organization as well as HQ partners on initiatives
Excellence Dealing with Ambiguity
• Bringing your experience in problem solving and ability to navigate complex organizations with pivotal shifts
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.
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What We Do
Further Enterprise Solutions (FES) is a leading provider of innovative turnkey solutions, software solutions, and consulting services to telecommunications providers and equipment manufacturers.
FES excels in creating innovative solutions to our client needs, including management of complex projects in a turnkey model. Benefits to our clients include assurance that expectations will be exceeded and milestones and deliverables will be met. FES has managed projects utilizing all of the primary wireless technologies and network components, (LTE, UMTS, CDMA, EVDO, AGPS) & across multiple disciplines (RF, Core, Microwave, Transport, Software Development, Construction, Site Acquisition, Drive Testing).
FES deploys highly skilled and competent resources to assist our clients with their short to long term project requirements. FES resources integrate rapidly within the client organization, take ownership of assigned responsibilities, facilitate knowledge transfer and exit gracefully at the conclusion of each project. Our software delivers dramatic improvements in performance and efficiency through automation of routine tasks and enhanced visualization of information that was previously hidden.
We believe our employees are the reason for our success, and are always interested in speaking with candidates who looking for new opportunities and challenges in our dynamic industry.
