Core Network Engineer RAN Herndon, VA JOB SUMMARY FOR NETWORK ENGINEER Perform complex system design, installation, commissioning, and verification. Customer support on our client s virtualization platforms as well as Next Generation Core products and projects. Continuously improving advanced technical knowledge in the following fields of technology Broadband IP network architecture and signaling protocols. 3GPP NGC standards and implementations ETSI NFV standards and implementations Cloud Technologies RESPONSIBILITIES FOR NETWORK ENGINEER System integration, verification and technical support of various NFV components, support SDN driven applications and Cloud Management. Primary focus on Openstack based Orchestration. Knowledge of many of the topics described below is preferred NFV Concepts and Implementation Require deep understanding of NFV in the following areas Understanding of ETSI NFV architecture Hypervisor Architecture, Advantages, Limitations and support for virtualization technologies (Bare-Metal, Para-Virtualization, Hardware-Assisted Virtualization) CPU and SMP Scheduling Features to optimize and implement NFV Functions Memory Address Translations Mechanisms to optimize NFV functions Disk Management Features and familiarity with Intel directed IO (VT-d). Storage of VMs and understand requirements to move VM image files between different Hypervisors. Networking Features including use of Open vSwitch, Cisco Nexus switch, SR-IOV, and Intel s Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK), virtual NICs. Provide solutions for network resiliency and improved performance. Hypervisor Performance Management optimize NFVs using Core Pinning, Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA), and Guest Isolation in Multi-Tenant scenarios, familiar with Intel s Virtualization Technology (Intel VT, VT-X) to optimize NFV functions. Understand the requirements to perform Live Migration of NFV. Understand the requirements to support Power Management for NFV. Management at the Hypervisor and Hardware level acting as Platform As A Service (PaaS). Understand the security implications of each Hypervior and suggest security solutions for NFV. REQUIRED EXPERIENCE FOR NETWORK ENGINEER A Bachelor s Degree in engineering (EE, CS) or related electronics technical training from four-year college or university and a Masters Degree (EE, CS) in an area of specialized engineering expertise preferred. Over 10 years of industry experience is required with MS degree and over 13 years of industry experience is required with BS degree. Have in-depth technical engineering experience including wireless telecommunications engineering activities. Hands-on experience of 3GPP PS core and LTE SAE technology preferred. Must be able to write, read, analyze, and interpret technical journals and procedures utilizing mathematics language, non-linear communications, vectors, complex numbers and logarithms as reference. Must have experience with MS Office products. Must have PC and UNIX Workstation experience in a LANWAN systems environment