RAN Cloud Engineer - Staffing

Circet USA is the leading provider of Network Services in North America, and we're looking for talented professionals to join our team. We specialize in engineering and construction services delivering comprehensive solutions across Inside Plant, Outside Plant, and Wireless networks to meet the evolving infrastructure needs of our customers.

With nearly 50 years of industry experience, we work with major telecom service providers, MSOs, cloud service providers, and utilities. At Circet USA, you'll have the opportunity to make an impact by helping to create customized solutions that address our clients' unique challenges. If you're passionate about innovation and thrive in a dynamic environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Circet USA's benefits package includes the following:

Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Digital Health & Wellness Support
• Critical Illness, Accident, & Hospital Insurance
• Short-term & Long-term disability
• Group term & Voluntary life insurance
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Paid Time Off & 401K
• Company Discount Website

We are looking for an RAN Cloud Engineer with OAMP/FCAPS/OSS knowledge/experience for EMS/NMS and RAN network elements.

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

• EMS/NMS/OSS/OAMP/FCAPS subsystem integration and troubleshooting in wireless networks.
• Tier2/Tier3 experience - Work under pressure to drive support teams to troubleshoot commercial NMS/EMS application, Platform/Transport issues, propose workarounds.
• Work with R&D and Tier3 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
• 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.
• Bachelor's degree in EE/CS/TE is required. Master's degree is preferred.
• Must have experience authoring and implementing EMS/NMS/NE SW upgrade MOPs in commercial networks.
• Must have Tier2/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.
• Must have experience with EMS/NMS/OAMP/FCAPS subsystem design and development in telecom industry
• Must have experience with network management systems and design/support of high availability systems.
• Must have an understanding of Netconf protocol, YANG models & REST API's, VES/SNMP standards, NMS/OSS interfaces
• Experience in Automation & Orchestration frameworks. (ie: knowledge of ETSI MANO specifications, TOSCA, ONAP) is beneficial
• Experience in authoring the SW upgrade MOPs and RCAs (Root Cause Analysis) of high severity issues in the commercial network
• Experience or Understanding in managing Openstack / Kubernetes environment is beneficial.
• Experience or understanding of 3GPP systems: Core and RAN networks, architecture and protocols is beneficial
• Experience in SW development with Java and web based applications is beneficial
• 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.
• Must have troubleshooting experience using command-line tools and scripts
• Experience in hands on experience with configuration and troubleshooting L2/L3 switches and routers
• Working knowledge of IP network protocols & QoS