Company Description
Are you passionate and enthusiastic about solving complex software problems on a large scale? Do you value agile methodologies? Do you want to build systems and services using the latest technologies?
In Pod Group, our WEIRD attributes (Wisdom, Emotional intelligence, Initiative, Responsibility and Development) put responsibility in the hands of the employee. We believe that a transparent environment where employees can make their own decisions, is the key to feel happy at work. Motivation and results are the natural outcome.
What do we do? We have applications and platforms to service more than 500 clients through a web interface and API. Currently, our database weighs 500GB, supports a concurrency of 1000 requests per minute (200ms of response) and consists of a cluster. We use .Net and NodeJS + MongoDB technologies in the backend and Angular in the frontend. Our entire infrastructure is hosted by cloud providers (VPS and bare-metal), AWS and Azure with Linux servers (Ubuntu Server / Debian).
Job Description
Opportunity to join Pod Group’s Network Operations team as a IP network / mobile packet core engineer to deploy and support mobile network services. You will be responsible for the day to day running of Pod’s network, and to support the company with new customer projects, network deployments and network troubleshooting.
Experience:
-Formal telecoms/electronic or IP Network qualifications or equivalent experience gained through previous roles.
-Solid understanding with practical hands on experience of IP networks, VLANs and routing fundamentals.
-A high level of English is mandatory.
Desirable:
-Understanding of mobile roaming architecture including the role of serving networks, signalling interconnect and GRX / IPX providers
-Knowledge of 2G / 3G networking, and 4G LTE technologies
-Experience of working with a range of telecoms technologies
-Understanding / experience of GRX and IPX networks
-Technical knowledge of maintaining on-premises equipment and cloud services in areas such as virtual machines, storage, network and security.
-Experience in deploying and maintaining production infrastructure to achieve high levels of uptime and reliability.
Protocols:
Diameter LTE Signalling
RADIUS
Diameter Gy/Gx
GTP v1/v2
Technology area:
IP Routing and switching (Layer 2 & 3)
BGP routing protocol
IPSEC VPN
Wireshark traces
Platforms:
Linux O/S: Centos especially.
MySQL and Postgres databases
Virtualisation & Containerisation technologies, including Cloud (AWS, Azure), VMware, Docker
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent