What are the responsibilities and job description for the IMS Engineer position at Inabia Software & Consulting Inc.?
DEPARTMENT: Network Services
SUPERVISOR: Manager, IP Voice Engineering
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORKING CONDITIONS:
Must be willing to work shifts which include evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays. Must be able to sit for long periods and use computer keyboard and/or mouse while viewing computer screen.
Inabia is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, please let our hiring team know.
SUPERVISOR: Manager, IP Voice Engineering
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Actively engaged as an employee advocate and fully committed to supporting our strategic vision to be and become known as the BEST in our industry(s) through:
- Integrity
- Putting our customer at the center of everything we do
- A relentless passion to be the best
- Being competitive, bold, innovative and adding value
- An ownership mentality, behavior and accountability
- An unyielding commitment to quality
- Respect for our internal and external customers
- Continuous improvement
- Being resourceful, productive and efficient
- Maximum dedication and effort with high energy, enthusiasm and urgency
- Responsibilities
- Providing operations support; maintenance of application, capacity monitoring on existing servers, and performance tuning.
- Experience with virtualization, containerization (e.g., VMware, Virtual Box) and Cloud. (virtualization software platforms)
- This position is responsible identifying and documenting technical requirements for the systems deployed in C Spire networks based on product and/or system architecture requirements.
- This position is responsible for completing system detailed design and documentation including call flows, cost estimates for business case analysis, impact studies, traffic engineering/capacity analysis and operation support documentation.
- This position is responsible for conducting design reviews of assigned projects with engineering peer group to ensure requirements are complete and design goals are met
- This position is responsible for providing technical expertise in Tier 2 support for operations personnel in assigned areas of responsibility
- Preferred to have held leadership position with oversight over multiple engineers while managing both technical content and project deliverables. Works without supervision and can clearly prioritize tasks while working multiple projects.
- Senior Engineer MUST possess system level knowledge in one or more of the following areas:
- LTE (EPC) packet data core
- Policy/charging and QoS enforcement in packet data networks.
- IMS networks and services including VoLTE, VoIP and VoNR
- Qualifications:
- Strong Knowledge on testing process, test strategy and test plans.
- Participate in creating application architecture document to provide deliverables in line with architectural requirements.
- TCP/IP networking (basic routing, analyzing network captures, etc.)
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
- Ability to ramp up on new products/vendor’s products as and when they arrive in C Spire network. Should be able to perform testing on new SBC solutions like cloud SBC, and new vendor products such as Metaswitch, Genband, Mavenir etc. (Session Border Controller (SBC) solutions, including cloud SBC, are critical components in Voice over IP (VoIP) networks.)
- Experience working with Call flow in IMS, SIP and SS7 protocols
- Must have knowledge of 3GPP IMS core standards (nokia)
- Preferred to have experience in Network Function Virtualization (NFV), VMWare, and JavaScript or python scripting
- Must be expert in SIP Messaging, Signaling and components of IMS (nodes)
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent knowledge.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORKING CONDITIONS:
Must be willing to work shifts which include evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays. Must be able to sit for long periods and use computer keyboard and/or mouse while viewing computer screen.
Inabia is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, please let our hiring team know.
