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What You’ll Be Doing…
The Orchestration & Automation Planning team is looking for an Automation Engineer to maintain and advance our automation platform to support in-house and 3rd party RAN automation applications. This includes interfacing with external suppliers and internal stakeholders. In this role the candidate will be responsible for leading feature designs and will work with engineering and operations for solutions to improve reliability, scalability, and performance. You will partner with key stakeholders to ensure new features and or fixes are swiftly tested and rolled out with no negative impact to customers. In this role you will have the opportunity to envision and operationalize system and network variables to benchmark the platform and to ensure reliability and performance metrics are met.
- Ongoing assessment of the deployment process as well as implementation of new procedures to streamline the process.
- Designing architecture and specifying requirements for platform features to support SON applications with new capabilities, and meeting capacity and reliability requirements.
- Designing platform solutions to evolve to standard solution.
- Designing platform solutions with high availability and geo-redundancy, including distributed architecture, and meeting internal logging, alarming, auditing, and security practices.
- Executing solution plans and working with internal engineering and operations teams to bring the solutions to production.
What We’re Looking For...
You’re a technical specialist with solid credentials and a remarkable ability to find, break down, and solve problems. You work effectively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, and you’re phenomenal at partnering with the groups you support. You constantly look for ways to make a great network design better, and you’re a natural mentor to junior engineers looking to develop their technical skills.
You’ll Need To Have
- Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
- Four or more years of relevant work experience.
- Experience in automation technology.
- Experience in creating architecture and understanding its principles including availability, reliability, scalability, redundancy, high availability, serviceability.
- Experience in specifying requirements for solutions and features.
- Experience in the use of AI/ML and knowledge of basic AI/ML principles.
- Knowledge of 3GPP 4G and 5G technologies, particularly in the RAN domain.
- Knowledge of IP network services and protocols.
- Experience in software development including design, implementation, and test.
- Knowledge of Openstack related network functions.
- Knowledge of Container related network functions (Kubernetes) along with Openshift and SPK.
Even better if you have one or more of the following:
A degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.Where you’ll be workingIn this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.Scheduled Weekly Hours40Equal Employment OpportunityVerizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.
