Sr Specialist System Engineering- 5G Packet core engineer, Linux is MUST

Responsibilities:

• Develop technical expertise with 3GPP 5G SA SMF/UPF and LTE/NSA SGW/PGW and actively drive our 24x7 lab certification objective.
• Participate in Sprint Planning and design discussions with the development team to ensure that automation objectives are met.
• E fectively utilize project management tools such as Jira to track requirements, design, and deliveries of the project.
• Develop expertise in the Automated Network Testing (ANT) platform and become an advocate for its use in both a lab and production environment.
• Improve productivity for the overall team by proposing tools or processes that optimize our quality and rate of delivery.
• Understand the business objectives of our team, organization, business unit, and company.
• Create End-to-End (E2) test cases and post-validation templates using ANT.
• Create Command-Line-Interface (CLI) test case template health checks using ANT and regular expressions.
• Collaborate with platform teams, testers and infrastructure teams to troubleshoot automation, tooling and mobility infrastructure networks.
• Participate in script lifecycle management including development, delivery, deployment, updates, defect management.

Basic Qualifications

• Expert level working experience with 3GPP Mobile Packet Core architecture, interfaces and call flows. Specific focus on LTE/NSA SGW/PGW and 5G SA SMF/UPF/NRF/MIND/UDR/UDM.
• H and on experience on TCP/IP, UDP/QUIC protocols, SSL/TLS Encryptions etc.
• Good understanding of Linux, Firewall (NAT/PAT etc.), networking and routing protocols (e.g. Ethernet, VLAN, BGP etc.).
• Expert level working experience troubleshooting mobility infrastructure and services.
• Expert level working experience in creation and maintenance of Azure and Azure DevOps (ADO) concepts including specific experience with:

• Demonstrated ability to develop ADO Pipelines from the ground up (particularly yaml expressed pipelines).
• Demonstrated use of az cli commands within ADO Pipelines as a method to interact with Azure Resources.
•  Comprehension of the purpose and limitations of ADO agents.
• ADO Repos and expanding understanding not only to the purpose but more specifically on branching and tagging methods to optimize code stored in repositories to handle the different environments.

• Understanding the capabilities of Azure Keyvault (AKV)
• Understanding of Azure Resource Manager (Endpoints and Service Principals).
•  Understanding of Bicep and ARM Templates to build Azure Resources with particular emphasis on parameterization. • Demonstrated use
• Demonstrated use of Azure Operator Service Manager (AOSM).
•  Ability to articulate concepts, solutions, and standards to members of the project with various levels of skills sets through presentations and/or discussions.
•  Proficient in Python development.
• 3+ Years of experience working with Regular Expressions (RegEx).
•  3+ Experience in K8s, Azure, Azure Dev Ops, CI/CD. • Hands on experience developing and maintaining automation scripts following Object Oriented Programming principles.
•  Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem-solving skills.
•  Proficient with Agile testing methodologies and best practices.
•  Working knowledge of Robot framework, Selenium, Java script, JSON, YAML files etc.
•   Portfolio on GitHub or other platforms. • Interest in learning new tools and technologies.
•  Excellent communication skills (written and oral) and intercultural communication abilities.
•  Must have a win as one attitude, to work as a team to carry out projects on time with quality

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