Python Job: Mobile Core Network Engineer-Melbourne

To apply expert-level technical skills in the design, development, deployment and configuration of Mobile subscriber management platforms for 3G, 4G and 5G ((including CUDB, HLR-FE, HSS-FE, UDR, UDM and EDA/ provisioning mediation) with a high understanding of Wireless Core Network. A key part of this role will be to lead change and new ways of working with cross domains, planners, incident management operations and technology teams. A positive “can do” attitude to lead and work collaboratively with the team and be a highly effective team player. A solid understanding of automation and scripting (such as

Python and Ansible) will be highly advantageous as they will be a key part of developing the Core Control platforms. Candidates should also be able to lead and drive DevOps practices with a major focus on Network Security & Resiliency.

Essential Skills

Qualification in Engineering in the Mobile Telco or related discipline.

• Good working knowledge in Devops model, ITIL, TDP, Agile and Project Management.

• Urge to learn new technologies with effective oral and written communication skills.

• At least 3-5+ years professional experience in Telecommunications

• Understanding of Virtualised environments

• Strong programming skills in Ansible and/or Python for the development of automation.

• Experience implementing and driving change in large organisations and coaching impacted teams.

• Ability to work with key vendors in a collaborative and co-operative manner.

• Ability to navigate through and influence internal and external

stakeholders to build relationships and leverage them to drive outcomes.

• Excellent active listening skills and high emotional intelligence

• Be able to manage competing priorities and be able to rationalise work selection decisions within the context of business priorities.

• Be able to flexibly move between a number of technologies depending on team workload and business priorities.

• Willingness to work on-call or outside of normal hours for operational reasons if arises.

• Self-motivated and willing to own and solve issues, Can-do attitude

Measurable Deliverables and desired outcomes

· Ability to lead UDC projects, but also work independently and collaboratively with teams.

· Demonstrated end to end accountability and delivery of quality engineering solutions in relation to detailed design, testing,

integration, and deployment.

· Troubleshooting complex incidents and lead incident management teams.

· Documentation as required; SAD, LLD, HLD, MOP, Jira tickets and Confluence pages.

· Provide support and knowledge sharing with the project team and other teams.

· Available after hours to deploy changes and support recalls if required.

· Challenge the current ways of working and identify functions that can be automated.

· Work closely with vendors and lead the design and architectural decisions for fixes and understanding the risks.

· Be able to work independently on virtualised environments and perform an expert degree of design and testing for applications.

· Make recommendations to vendor and technology owners

Key Responsibilities, Accountability Metrics, Decision Rights

Key Responsibilities

• Have subject matter expertise within the UDC environments and other Wireless Core domains.

• Excellent understanding of Wireless Core Network architecture and interfaces.

• Advanced knowledge of various network protocols.

• Troubleshooting and monitoring mobile networks using tools like Moonshot, IRIS, Wireshark and Splunk.

• Ownership of the design, architecture, preparation and deployment of platform configuration data on the UDC platforms.

• Production operational ownership, providing technical direction and problem solving.

• Work closely with Incident Management Operation (IMO) to resolve escalated incidents and being highly customer focused.

• Challenge and change the current ways of working and develop solutions that use the latest available industry tools and work practices, eg Ansible

for Automation.

• Work closely with UDC vendor to enhance, lifecycle and road map the platform, raise issues, test and deploy fixes into the production

environment.

• Detailed knowledge of NFVi SDN and VNF, Wireless applications such as SAPC, EPG, MME and DSC and the provisioning systems will be an

advantage.

• Lead the development of supportive scripts to validate or interrogate network elements.

• Validating and producing SAD, LLD, HLD & MOPs.

• Ownership of growth forecasts and lifecycle management.

• Continuously drive down the rate of problem recurrence.

• Lead the development of innovative customer centric performance monitoring solutions utilising existing tools.

• Continually demonstrate the Values – Show You Care, Better Together, Make The Complex Simple, Trust Each Other to Deliver, Find Your

Courage.

Key Accountability Metrics

• Maintain the highest level of design and architecture standards for UDC Platforms.

• Lead in Agile and DevOps model to support and work in UDC missions.

• Ensure compliance with Operational policy and procedure around the ITIL functions of incident management, problem management and, change and

release management.

• Maintain the platforms and/or applications for maximum availability and performance using the appropriate processes as a basis for a stable and

carefully managed environment.

• Own and champion the development and implementation of complex solution.

Key Decision Rights

• Make architectural and design decisions in relation to the UDC.

• Assess and address the solution impacts and changes to architecture.

• Maintain high levels of engage with products and cross domains to make design decisions.

• Ability to perform interoperability testing and validate the test results to make decisions.

• Tool decision for automation of routines and backups.

• Complex fault resolution and making and owning the right decisions during Major Incident Management (MIM) for high and critical severity incidents.

Job Type: Contract
Contract length: 6 months

Salary: $650.00 – $750.00 per day

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Melbourne VIC: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Authorisation:

• Australia (Required)