Aspire Technology is Irish based company with a focus in engineering, software solutions and consulting, perfecting networks in more than 50 countries around the world. At Aspire Technology, we have a culture of professionalism, innovation, and partnership. We are supporting our partners in full network lifecycle management, from R&D and setting network deployment strategy, over network design, integration, and optimization, to securing end to end-user experience and customer care. Our clients are among the top tier service providers, global system integrators, solutions vendors and ecosystem enablers like standardization and regulatory agencies. Aspire is one of the pioneers in the Open Networks world, with an established Aspire Open Networks Lab and involvement in R&D and product development, open networks integration, verification, design, and performance benchmark for major Open RAN deployments globally. As an engineer, data scientist or developer, you will get the opportunity In Aspire to develop your skills through work on perfecting networks or creation of innovative solutions, together with our expert teams during exciting projects with the most relevant players in the industry.
Working with Aspire Technology
At Aspire Technology we believe that to build a great company, you must have great people and great people are at the heart of our company. We work with smart, motivated, and innovative people who have a great attitude. You will love working on telecommunications technology, be passionate about delivering to our customers and really enjoy working with your Aspire colleagues.
We value people who are proactive at driving solutions and place customers and colleagues first.
As part of the team, you can expect to:
- Work with globally respected Aspire engineers who are experts in their field to create and deliver innovative and pragmatic solutions for our customers
- Get the opportunity to work across leading and emerging telecoms technologies and domains
- Develop your technical leadership capabilities and provide technical expertise to your work colleagues and our customers
- Have ownership, responsibility, and accountability for your work
- Participate in international operator network deployments and maintenance/support projects
- Progress your career rapidly as you will receive first class training and mentoring
- Work in an environment where knowledge sharing is a fundamental part of the company culture and where engineers strive to help each other out at all time
- Gain an insight into all aspects of our organisation through our approachable management team
Role: RAN optimisation Engineer
As a RAN optimization Engineer you will provide Technical consultancy and Support to commercially deployed 3G/4G/5G/Open RAN networks.
You will troubleshoot technical issues in the Radio Access Network (RAN) and design workarounds and solutions to resolve these issues but with an E2E perspective/knowledge always present.
You will be heavily involved in roll-out and optimisation of standard as well as Open RAN 5G NSA/SA solution.
You will develop strategies and provide consultation to customers on improving network performance.
You will also be exposed to the SON department and help develop and implement our proprietary solutions.
In some of our deployment roles, you will travel internationally and work in different cultural environments.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Supporting our customers with mobile network monitoring, optimisation, and improvement projects (ranging from legacy to 5G/Open RAN networks)
- Improve Radio Access Network performance through Radio parameters tuning and features implementation
- Participation in mobile operator network deployment and launch projects
- Support of new feature introduction/testing in mobile operator networks
- Investigation and resolution of network performance degradation
- Troubleshoot and resolution of configuration faults
- Troubleshoot and localization of software faults in mobile operator networks
- Clarification of expected system behaviour towards mobile operators
- Improve both voice and data costumer experience (Quality of Experience – QoE)
- Investigation and testing of different scenarios in our Lab (Open RAN, Virtualization etc)
- Sharing knowledge with less experienced engineers
Required Education/Experience
To succeed, you will have an engaging and inquisitive personality and a natural technical proficiency for all things Telecom and IT related. You will know that you are the type of person we are looking for if you have:
- A Bachelor of Science Degree in an engineering discipline (Telecommunications, Electronic Engineering, Information Technology etc)
- At least 5 years of experience in RAN Optimisation/Planning, with a deep and proven experience in some of the following nodes: Deep understanding of main radio algorithms, features and parameters in 2G, 3G, 4G technology and network architecture in RAN
- 2 or more of the following equipment vendors: Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE, Nokia and Open RAN (e.g., Mavenir, Parallel wireless)
- Proven experience in RAN KPI (Key Performance Indicator) optimisation with use of operator network management tools
- Considerable experience in deploying and troubleshooting with RAN vendor equipment including O&M, KPI analysis, detailed call tracing and troubleshooting
- Experience working with operators, and an appreciation of what the issues are for network operators, combined with a demonstrated willingness to drive issues to resolution
- Proven demonstrable examples of where you have driven complex coordination and technical issues to conclusion, exhibiting a ‘get up and go’ attitude to problem resolution
- E2E experience related with VoLTE call flow analysis (IMS and/or TCP/IP protocol analysis) is a plus
- Early exposure to Massive MIMO, 5G deployments or Open RAN is a plus
- Familiar with SON environment and algorithm development is a plus
- Automation skills, interest in statistics and data science are a plus
- Scripting Expertise is a plus (for example Python)
- A solid team player with the ability to lead others and yet work independently
- Ability to work analytically and coordinate investigations. A problem solver.
- Flexible and Adaptable to developing business needs and work patterns
- Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with customers and colleagues in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams
Benefits
At Aspire Technology you can expect:
- A competitive salary with performance-related bonus
- Extensive technical and business training with the possibility to gain external industry standard certifications
- One-to-One mentoring and coaching sessions with our leading engineers
- Opportunity for career advancement through our structured career progression model
- Opportunity to travel internationally
- Opportunity to work in newly emerging technologies
- Flexible working hours
- Flexible remote/office work environment
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