IMS/CS Core L2 Engineer

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Ref: HP647-2500

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

• The L2 CS/IMS Core engineer will be part of the CS/IMS Core Operations team, managing core switches, media gateways, IMS system, signalling and roaming operations and subscriber data management 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.
• CS/IMS Core L2 Engineer will be responsible for the implementation, maintenance, and 2nd level operational support of the wireless network platforms.

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of CS/IMS Core call flows and scenarios as per 3GPP, GSMA IR, IEEE and ETSI standards, outstanding troubleshooting skills using internal/external tracing tools, Wireshark, IRIS, Tektronix, etc.
• Expert knowledge of CS/IMS Core protocols such as (MAP, SCCP, BSSAP, RANAP, ISUP, Camel, SS7/Sigtran/M3UA/MTP3, AAA, Diameter (S6a, Cx, Dx, Rx), BICC/SIP/SDP/RTP/Gm, etc.)
• Analyze daily and weekly health checks reports for CS 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 CS/IMS Core services and change requests, utilizing automation scripts to simplify operations (Example: SOAP, XML, Shell, Expect, Python, Perl...).

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