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.   Powered by JazzHR