Technical Project Manager-Packet Core at Nokia

We are looking for a Packet Core Technical Project manager with hands on engineering and design experience to deliver services in Middle East and Africa Region,

The Technical Project Manager is responsible to coordinate all Technical topics end-to-end in the Project as defined in Customer contract in terms of quality, risk, and time from delivery approach preparation through deployment, Customer acceptance and Care phase. Acts as primary Technical interface and first Technical escalation point within the Customer project. Perform Engineering (deployment, Integration, and testing) and design (HLD/LLD development) activities on need basis.

Are you passionate about solving problems?

As part of our team, you will:

• Manages all the Technical management activities defined in Customer contract with small /medium business volume and average complexity and risk probability, in terms of quality, risk and time from delivery approach preparation through deployment, customer acceptance and care phase.
• Acts as primary Technical interface and first Technical escalation point within the Customer project. Performs a Technical Risk Analysis. Proposes and implements risk mitigation actions.
• Validates the workload involved and expertise needed related to technical tasks. Ensures resource management related to technical tasks regarding allocation, induction, release and expertise needed.
• Leads technical activities during execution and care phase, for instance Core Network Implementation, System Acceptance, Multi-Vendor Interface Verification, Fault and Technical Escalation Management, Preventive Care and HW/SW update and upgrade.
• Deliver Cloud Packet Core HLDs and LLDs, Deployment, testing and integration of Cloud Packet Core nodes (CMM/CMG/NRD)

Your Skills And Experience

You have:

• Strong understanding of 3gpp call flows, protocol stacks and good hands-on experience in Evolved Packet Core solutions from one or more vendors (MME, SGSN, SPGW, TWAG, ePDG). It will be an added advantage to have experience & competency to handle Nokia Cloud Core Nokia Evolve Packet Core (EPC) and Cloud Packet Core (CPC) solutions like FNS, FNG, CMM, CMG etc
• Hands on experience on Packet core projects including engineering and design responsibilities. Knowledge and experience on the 3G/4G/5G, VoLTE and VoWiFi Technologies. Strong knowledge of 4G/5G architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, and Cloud Native architecture
• Good working experience on EPC solution design, platform, and application deployment (on VMware, openstack, kubernates), system configuration, integration with 3gpp peer nodes, LTE call flow testing, troubleshooting, supporting system go-live and software upgrades

It would be nice if you also had:

• IP certifications in one or more suppliers (Nokia SRC, Cisco, Juniper) are highly recommended, priority given to Nokia SRC certification.
• Knowledge of all or part of the set of protocols for IP/MPLS: IGP, BGP, RSVP, LDP, etc…Knowledge in domains like SS7, Diameter, Linux, Shell scripting, Yaml files.
• PMP certification