Principal Engineer Fixed Voice & IMS Core

Principal Engineer Fixed Voice & IMS Core | Telecoms | Gibraltar / Spain / UK | Remote

Principal Engineer Fixed Voice & IMS Core required for an exciting Telecoms company based in Gibraltar.

You will lead a team and technical function that ensures the delivery of an effective, efficient, and productive environment which can cope with the fluctuations and demands of the business, within the confines of policies and budgets.

As Principal Engineer Fixed Voice & IMS Core you will be responsible for the delivery of an excellent service, through the efficient architecture, engineering, and application of technology.

What's on offer to you?

• Managed Service provider


• Great career options


• Excellent team culture

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead a technical function as determined by the Company, concerning a specific remit of technology and/or infrastructure, across relevant markets and countries.


• Strive for 100% availability of the customer-facing service.


• Operationally maintain and continuously improve the technical function.


• Dimension of the technical function in line with business requirements, including growth and sparing.


• Apply best practices as defined by standardisation committees, industry bodies and vendors.


• Track vendors' technology evolutions and lifecycle.


• Lead the planning, development, design, engineering, architecture, integration, testing, acceptance, optimisation, and implementation activities of the technical function.


• Be responsible and accountable for the quality and performance of the technical function.


• Coordinate and assure security aspects of the technical function.


• Manage the resolution of customer-initiated complaints and defects within committed service levels attributed to the technical function.


• Lead and manage the delivery of projects within the specific remit of the technical function.


• Be responsible and accountable for drafting, collating, and maintaining a repository of documentation concerning the technical function.


• Define and execute multi-year roadmaps that align to the technical strategy and business objectives.


• Manage and maintain an information exchange relationship with operational counterparts.


• Support sales and marketing counterparts concerning the specific remit of technology and/or infrastructure:


• Assist with a pre-sales function, if required.

What You Will Need to Succeed In This Role

• At least eight years of demonstrable experience working in a communication service provider environment, either directly or indirectly.


• Expert-level understanding of telecommunication and IP protocols (SIP-T/I, RSTP, SS7, SIGTRAN, IPSEC).


• Solid understanding of PSTN and PLMN concepts, together with a working understanding of modern telecommunications infrastructure.


• Experience with Ericsson IMS infrastructure is considered mandatory.
  
  Experience with Broadworks AS would be advantageous.


• JCNIE or CCIE qualified.
  
  Equivalency will be considered.


• The following functions will be within remit, but it is expected that operational activities will, in full or in part, be undertaken by specialist teams.


• Software infrastructure supporting PNFs, VNFs and CNFs.


• Hardware infrastructure supporting PNFs, VNFs and CNFs
  
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