N1-RAN Virtualization - OAMP - OSS Engineer III
Samsung, United States
Job Description
Position Summary
For decades, Samsung has been leading the charge on innovation. We see beauty in achieving excellence and our passion for change fuels our discoveries, inventions, and breakthrough technology. We believe that technology can, and should, make the world a better place, so we create new possibilities for people everywhere, push the limits of what’s possible, and constantly innovate.
At Samsung Electronics America, we take pride in the creativity and diversity of our talented people – they are at the forefront of everything we do. Their skillset and mindset drive our continued success. Only the resilient and resourceful thrive in the daily dose of unexpected at Samsung. We unapologetically push to achieve unforeseen potential in everything we do, both within the workplace and at home. We fearlessly face challenges head-on, conquer the unconquerable, and are comfortable living in the uncomfortable zone. Together we make the impossible possible. Because at Samsung, we Own the Unknown.
Are you ready to #OwnTheUnknown? Join us.
Role and Responsibilities
If you have ambitions to be a part of a Best in Class organization, Samsung’s Wireless Networks team is the place to be! The role of the Wireless Networks Team is to support our carrier customers through innovative technology road map. The dynamic culture at Samsung offers both great challenge and great reward. If you want to work among the very best talent in the industry, working on the most innovative products in the world, Samsung is the place to be.
We are looking for a RAN Virtualization & OAMP Engineer to join our Wireless network team. You will be a key contributor as a subject matter expert in a multi-functional team of R&D, Systems engineering, and product validation to introduce Samsung products to Wireless Carrier.
Essential Duties and responsibilities include:
OAMP/FCAPS subsystem integration and troubleshooting in wireless networks.
Tier3 SME experience – Work under pressure to drive support teams to troubleshoot commercial NMS/EMS application issues, propose workarounds, and work with R&D 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, Work with the team to conduct deep-dive customer sessions, new technology introduction of 4G/5G RAN Network Management features and introduction of virtualized networks
Assist SMEs with analysis of the customer requirements, converting them into system requirements and capturing of detail design for the development team.
Assist SMEs Technical Management of new products and SW releases to ensure that promised features are delivered with expected performance
Provides technical support in the pre-sales process and creates compelling technical and commercial solutions in order to help achieve the assigned sales goals and business objectives.
Translates and communicates complex technical design considerations between the Samsung sales team and carriers’ network business.
Works closely with various support organizations and cross- functional teams from SEA and Samsung 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.
Lead projects. Supervise and manage other engineers.
Job Specification
Success Criteria:
Technical Acumen
Key contributor in driving the technical solutions to customer through complex organizational dynamics
Presentations Skills
Leveraging your ability to communicate effectively with all levels of organization as well as HQ partners on initiatives
Excellence Dealing with Ambiguity
Bringing your experience in problem solving and ability to navigate complex organizations with pivotal shifts
Skills and Qualifications
Background & Competencies Required:
Minimum 8-10 years of OAMP/FCAPS/OSS knowledge/experience for EMS/NMS and RAN network elements.
Minimum 1 year of EMS/NMS and RAN (vCU/vDU) Network Function Virtualization (NFV) experience.
Bachelor’s degree in EE/CS/TE is required. Master’s degree is preferred.
Must have experience with OAMP/FCAPS subsystem design and development in wireless networks.
Must have experience authoring and implementing EMS/NMS/NE SW upgrade MOPs in commercial networks.
Must have 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.
Understanding of Automation & Orchestration frameworks is preferred (knowledge in the ETSI MANO specifications, OASIS TOSCA, ONAP).
Must have understanding of EMS applications, TR-069, Netconf protocol, YANG models & Restful APIs.
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.
Experience in performance measurement & tuning of VMware/Openstack servers and Virtual sessions and management of servers resources between virtual machines is preferred.
Understanding of 3GPP systems: Core and RAN networks, architecture and protocols is preferred.
Understanding of Hardware and Software architecture is a must.
Must have hands-on experience with High Availability and redundancy systems.
Experience on system engineering projects to include technical requirements identification, technical solutions to address customer requirements with details to design /deploy / manage their infrastructure is preferred.
Must have troubleshooting experience using command-line tools and scripts
Must have experience with SNMP and TNM protocols and NMS/OSS interfaces.
Must have experience with Unix/Linux, scripting tools like PERL, TCL, shell.
Experience with Web based development including JVM, J2EE, (EJB), JAVA, JavaScript, Web Services, HTML, XML, SOAP is preferred.
People management experience is highly preferred.