Network & OSS Design Engineer

Network & OSS Design Engineer

Vodafone

Madrid, Spain

For the role of Specialist GPON Technology Engineer we are looking for candidates with a broad range of skills.

The responsibilities include:

• Engineering and lifecycle management of the network elements as well as the management of the suppliers in the GPON/FFTx Fixed Access domain.
• Develop the fiber access connectivity for all market segments in GPON &FTTx design and process requirements and evaluations of supplier tenders, whereby the projects are located in European Vodafone national companies.
• Participate in the choice and control of suppliers and take over the technical contract conditions.
• Creation of planning, implementation, and installation specifications as well as the product-related configuration for connectivity.
• Create interference suppression and optimization rules for connectivity and control the system acceptance and introduction and carry them out successfully.
• Lifecycle management of fixed access xPON/FTTx platforms (OLT, L2 ONT, EMS and SDN).
• Define the rules for capacity management of fixed access xPON/FTTH platforms to guarantee the best performance to customers.
• Coordination of implementation for new projects impacted xPON/FTTHx platforms.
• Implementation of new services for Consumer, Enterprise (i.e. new speeds or fixed services over XGS-PON) and Mobile Backhauling over xPON/FTTx technology.
• Support testing activities for new SW upgrades, bug fixing, security patches, etc.
• High- and Low-Level Design (HLD & LLD) for new services and/or platforms.
• Implementation of security policies defined in Vodafone to hardening all fixed access xPON/FTTx platforms.
• Automation of network activities in fixed access xPON/FTTx platforms by use of scripting or RPA technics.

What you bring:

• University degree: Telecommunication degree, with 5+ years of experience.
• Very good knowledge of fixed access technologies (such as GPON, XGSPON and new PON flavours as well as P2P Ethernet fiber) with special emphasis on SDN (Software Defined Network).
• Experience in handling with protocols and interfaces, especially southbound interfaces between OSS and SDN-C (e.g. XML, JSON, SOAP, RESTconf, Netconf, YANG, Openflow, Kafka, Corba etc.).
• Be competent on Standard Web Services commonly used in the OSS /SDN-C environment (Keycloak, Grafana, MariaDB etc.).
• Communication and security protocols. Switching and Routing protocols (i.e. VLAN, L2/L3 QoS, etc.). Validation and authentication protocols: PPP, DHCP, etc.
• Strong experience working in cross engineering teams. Strong capacity for teamwork.
• Advanced level of English.