RAN Virtualization Engineer- Staffing

Circet USA is a leading provider of telecommunications and data center infrastructure services in North America, and we're looking for talented professionals to join our team. We deliver comprehensive engineering, construction, and network solutions that support the evolving connectivity and infrastructure needs of our customers.

With nearly 50 years of industry experience, we partner with major telecom providers, cloud service providers, general contractors, data center operators, and utilities to design and deliver customized solutions that solve complex challenges. At Circet USA, you'll have the opportunity to make an impact, contribute to critical infrastructure projects, and help shape the future of connectivity. If you're passionate about innovation and thrive in a dynamic environment, we'd love to hear from you.

A highly skilled and results-driven RAN Virtualization OA&M Engineer with extensive experience in OAMP/FCAPS/OSS knowledge/experience for EMS/NMS and RAN network elements.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned:

* 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 sales team and carriers' network business.
* Works closely with various support organizations and cross- functional teams from 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.

* 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.

Circet USA is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Veteran/Disabled. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.