Packet Switching Core L2 Engineer

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Ref: HP647-2502

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

• The L2 PS Core engineer will be part of the Packet Core Operations team, managing HSPA (SGSN, GGSN), LTE (MME, SGW, PGW), IMS/VoLTE (ePDG), DRA, PCRF/PCEF, PS Core DNS, Roaming Operations and reporting platforms, maintaining a 24/7 superior network KPIs with high availability of 99.99%, achieving quality leadership in a very competitive market.
• Being a multi-vendor environment, he/she has to perform vendor management for incident management and SLA negotiations as per the Vodafone policies.
• PS Core L2 Engineer will be responsible for the implementation, maintenance, and 2nd level operational support of the wireless data network platforms

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of PS Core call flows and scenarios as per 3GPP, GSMA IR, IEEE and ETSI standards, outstanding troubleshooting skills using internal/external tracing tools, wireshark, etc...
• Analyze daily and weekly health checks reports for PS Core domain and proactively responding to degraded KPIs and alarms within the acceptable SLA limits.
• Responsible for maintaining E2E measurement data and network KPIs within agreed OLAs & SLAs, ensuring network reliability and availability with minimal MTTR through promoting strong incident and proactive problem management practices.
• Provide on-site level 2 operations and maintenance support when needed, Incident and Problem management, applying proper corrective actions to restore the service.
• Provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA) through Major Incident Reviews (MIR) with the Vendors and update KEDB documentations.
• Participate in carrying out Weekly Business Reviews (WBR) and Major Incident Reviews (MIR).
• Develop method of procedures for various PS Core services and change requests, utilizing automation scripts to simplify operations (Example: Shell, Expect, Python, Perl...).
• Deploy & Integrate new nodes, execute & oversee acceptance process (SGSN/MME/SPGW/MURAL/PRIME/DNS/PCRF/DDE, etc..), support Networks teams in various projects.
• Execute and validate SW and HW bug fixes, release upgrades and expansions.
• Responsible for Network Audit, Operational performance, Capacity, Trend, Risk and Gap analysis.
• Supported repair and return activities, spare part management

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