Network Epc Design Engineer

**Position Title: Network EPC Design Engineer****Entity**:Glow Networks**Classification**:Project Hourly / Exempt**Grade**:Individual Contributor**Reports To**:PROJECT MANAGER**Working Hours**:40 HOURS in normal condition**Work Location**: REMOTE**Date**:ASAP**Summary/Objective**:Provide Network Design Engineering Services**Required Education/Experience and Competencies**:- Bachelor’s Degree in electrical engineering with experience in Telecommunication industry, or, minimum of 5 - 7 years’ experience in Network Design Engineering covering dMRF, SBC, NetNumber, AUSF, HSS, CSCF, NTAS, SMSF- Strong Work experience in Nokia 5G, EPC, IMS, IP networks- Understanding of 3GPP on different technology (mínimal of LTE)- Understand & knowledgeable of backhaul in telecommunication network- Comfortable with E2E Flows in both signaling & user planes in telecommunication network- Strong capabilities on Programing and DB queries search SQL, Python etc.- Strong capabilities on Excel- Nokia HSS, HLR, CSCF, NDS, NTAS, MSS, MGW, SDL, UDM, UDR knowledge is a plus- Nokia 77XX, Cisco and/or Juniper certification is a plus- Multivendor Knowledge is a plus**Essential Functions**:- The Network Design Engineer will deliver professional network planning services to meet customer specified network rollout and quality targets. The Network Design consists of the following four phases:- Network Assessment phase covers data collection from the current network and customer strategy and vision transformation to actual network requirements.- Nominal Design phase offers the high-level design principles in documented format for the whole project.- Detailed Design phase delivers more detailed plans for different project phases and related low-level design documentation.- Data build Creation phase offers network (parameter) details turned into electronic format to ease the actual implementation work.- Service will cover also related IP site connectivity equipment changes when delivery project is impacting to IP site connectivity part on the Core end and requires modification to those elements.**The tasks will include**:- Consideration of connectivity design & parameters to be matched and/or harmonized with the remainder network elements in the network- Create & provide customized Customer Information Questionnaire (CIQ) that would be required for detailed planning to complete Core databuilds, which would be required for commissioning & integration- Detailed physical & logical layer connectivity design including port, VLAN, IP & routing requirements for the CoreIP and VLAN planning for the CoreIP, Routing & QoS parameter for the CoreData build creation for CoreProvide support to implementation team to insure accurate implementation- Engineering Planning Folder (EPF) - contains the Hardware information- Low Level Design (LLD) - contains the logical and IP information about the system- Configuration files - contains configuration and installation parameters.- Provide daily or weekly status reports to relevant Nokia teams**Other Functions**:**- Customer Information Questionnaire (CIQ) - To be created and sent to the customer requesting the following info but not limited to**:- IP/VLAN subnets requirement and IP allocation convention- Naming convention and numbering scheme used in network- Operator network specific information- Product specific and network design parameters inputs- Signaling parameters (GTs, FQDNs, SPCs)- Site connectivity requirements & parameters- Details of communication endpoints (e.g. NTP, DNS servers to be used)- Port communication tables for firewall purposes- Provide daily or weekly status reports to relevant Nokia teams**Engineering Planning Folder (EPF) - Creation of HW Planning Document with the following information**:- Rack layout- Cable Running Lists- Power Requirements- Provide daily or weekly status reports to relevant Nokia teams**Low Level Design (LLD) - Creation of Detailed Network Design documentation describing low level deployment equipment & networking aspects, and feature design plans.**- Network topology details- Signaling configuration- Detailed IP configuration- Port assignments- Routing tables- Communication matrix (Network elements/nodes Interworking)- Low level site connectivity aspects- Feature related parameters Plan- Service analysis logic Plan- Work on ACL and security documentation- Provide daily or weekly status reports to relevant Nokia teams**Configuration Files - Create files that contain configuration and installation parameters. These may be**:- Nokia TPDs (excel based files)- YAML Files- XML Files- Provide daily or weekly status reports to relevant Nokia teams**Switch Configuration Files - Create Switch Configuration CLI Files. These may include the following or similar switches/routers**:- Dell Switch configurations- Juniper Switch Configuration- Cisco Switch Configurations- Nokia WBX