DevOps Engineer virtual ePC Expert (Ericsson NFVI)

Company Description

At T-Systems, you will find groundbreaking projects that contribute to social and ecological well-being. We want to welcome new talents like you, who bring fresh ideas, different perspectives, embrace challenges, and are committed to continuous learning in order to grow and make an impact on society... all in a fun way!

It doesn't matter when or where you work. It's about doing meaningful work that advances society. For this reason, we will do everything possible to ensure that you have all the development opportunities by providing a support network, excellent technology, a new work environment, and the freedom to work autonomously. We support you in growing both personally and professionally so that you can make a notable impact on society.

T-Systems is a team of around 28,000 employees worldwide, making us one of the leading global providers of end-to-end integrated solutions. We develop hybrid cloud solutions, artificial intelligence, and drive the digital transformation of companies, industries, the public sector, and ultimately, society as a whole.

Job Description

• Being responsible for the entire lifecycle management of Ericsson's NVFI solution hosting virtual ePC
• Optimise the solution for efficient operations, i.e. defining enhancements, develop, test, implement
• Operating the solution, i.e. monitor, troubleshoot, patch, and coordinate the implementation of defined tasks within affected technical teams and the vendor
• Incident Management, i.e. identify the issue, implement measures to mitigate customer impact, recover system stability, responsible to solve the issue. This also requires willingness for call-on-duty services.
• Problem Management, i.e. requesting vendor support in accordancy to defined SLA and support process, provide statistics for the defined KPIs, review SLA KPI reports
• Change Management, i.e. plan and prepare, test, request approval and implement changes to the system. This requires willingness to work in maintenance windows during nightshifts, depending on the severity of the change
• Define and plan deliveries for major release upgrades in terms of required content, deliverables, responsible owners (RACI) and required time and efforts
• Apply and improve testing, monitoring, and troubleshooting procedures to maintain high performance, reliability, and compliance of integrated network functions. Deliver and maintain documentation for best-practices, method of procedures (MoP), etc. for system operations
• Deliver, review and agree required acceptance test-cases for functional and non-functional use cases. Define, execute and coordinate execution of acceptance testing
• collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize end-to-end connectivity, address network challenges, and continuously improve integration processes for VNF deployments
• provide support for complex projects across development, quality assurance, and project planning, as well as assist with the implementation of new mobile core software releases
• Develop strategies to leverage from automated monitoring and change methods, incl. VNF deployments with VNF-M
• Define and establish disaster recovery plans to ensure system resilience and quick recovery from backups
• collaborate closely with the operations team to streamline processes, enhance software and system performance and apply innovative technologies and concepts
• Define solutions to apply Security implementation and monitor reports and implement required patches
• Responsible for Hardware repair&return process, coordinate HW exchange changes with local technical staff and plan, execute required VM migrations

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge in operating and monitoring compute hardware and Linux LCM (Ubuntu and Suse)
• Skilled in implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) to ensure network health and optimize the performance and reliability of packet core applications and infrastructure
• Knowledge in troubleshooting of IPv4/IPv6 networks and protocols such as TCP, UDP, BGP, BFD and tracing tools (e.g. wireshark)
• Experience with troubleshooting in L2 switching networks ideally with Arista and Juniper Junos knowledge 
• Familiar with ETSI-MANO architecture, VNF-M procedures, Openstack and Kubernetes 
• Basic understanding of packet core network components, interfaces, and protocols, with experience on-boarding of VNF 
• Experience in documenting multifaceted technical requirements for colleagues 
• Experience in classic and agile forms of cooperation

Additional Information

What do we offer you?

• International, positive, dynamic and motivated work environment.
• Hybrid work model (telecommuting/on-site).
• Flexible schedule.
• Continuous training: Certification preparation, access to Coursera, weekly English and German classes...
• Flexible compensation plan: medical insurance, restaurant tickets, day care, transportation allowances...
• Life and accident insurance.
• More than 26 working days of vacation per year.
• Social fund.
• Free service in specialists (doctors, physiotherapists, nutritionists, psychologists, lawyers...).
• 100% of salary in case of medical leave.

And many more advantages of being part of T-Systems!

If you are looking for a new challenge, do not hesitate to send us your CV! Please send CV in English. Join our team!

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