Packet Core Engineer

Responsibilities

• Assist with the design, architecture, planning, assessment, implementation and troubleshooting of 4G and 5G mobility solutions
• Incorporating best practices and industry standard tools to minimize downtime and customer impact to users on the systems.
• Incorporation of best practices regarding documentation, monitoring, and administration.
• Provide 2nd level support to Technical Support Group and Network Operation team to diagnose, remediate and correlate complex network problems.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Level III
• REQUIRED
• BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience required.
• A minimum of 5 years in infrastructure mobility technology, including aspects of designing, implementing, and supporting mobility systems.
• Knowledge of LTE EPC and 5G Core Nodes.
• Understanding of LTE/VoLTE Interfaces.
• Excellent customer service attitude and ability to work with others in a highly collaborative environment.
• Strong ability to communicate highly technical information to management team.
• Highly available and responsive to occasional after-hours problem management in a mission critical 24/7 support environment.
• Must be able to demonstrate in-dept technical knowledge related to routing and switching protocols and familiarity with industry best practice.
• Experience with LTE/5G Call Flow Analysis that can identify issues based 3GPP specs.
• Experience with KPI Analysis.
• Excel/PowerPoint/VB Experience to program, create, and customize reports.
• PREFERRED
• Experience with Container based Architecture.
• Experience with Nokia EPC Nodes(CMM, SGW, PGW, and CMG).
• Python, shell scripting a plus.