Passive & Active Probing Network Expert

**Join Us**:
At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers - we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

**What you’ll do**:
Design, test and deliver active and passive probing monitoring solutions. Provide end-to-end monitoring of various network domains capturing data for both control and user plane, allowing for troubleshooting functions as well as for the generation of network data feeds towards northbound analytics platforms. Design and implementation principles must radically ensure the effectiveness of OSS platforms while maintaining the cost at an optimum level, addressing at the same time technology evolution and digital transformation. Primary focus on Vodafone Germany. Active contribution to initiatives related to European Vodafone Local Markets and Centralized Deployments.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Responsible to execute DNOSS probing and active testing strategy in Vodafone Germany.
- Responsible to handle the outsourcer onboarded for Vodafone Germany: act as the intermediate between Vodafone Germany and the external entity engaged for Vodafone Germany’s active and passive probing projects, dispatching demands for design analysis/implementation/delivery, closely monitoring service delivery to ensure it is inline with the expectations.
- Manage project approval and budget mobilization boards in Vodafone Germany for passive and active probing initiatives.
- Project management and successful delivery based on milestones and timelines.
- Solution design and implementation of passive probing and active testing initiatives.
- Ensure delivery of BAU and digital transformation initiatives (eg tools consolidation, reusability, process automation, simplification etc.)
- Manage activities related to planning, dimensioning, capacity management and deployment of network probes according to traffic and customer forecasts.
- Ensure availability of project documentation: indicatively HLD, LLD, project and budget reporting, Acceptance TOL etc.
- Active contribution in building the probing and active testing strategy as part of the CPM Passive and Active testing team, being able to understand short term and long term requirements, study the historical trends and suggest the best way forward and applicable on a departmental, regional level. Definition of platform roadmap addressing functional and non-functional requirements.
- Alignment of passive and active probing with network evolution (indicatively but not limited to: 5G, virtualization).
- Very good understanding of the ecosystem surrounding the probing network to anticipate potential needs (short/medium/long term).
- Actively participate in discussions with both technical and non-technical departments, understand the business requirements, translate to technical and seek for the most suitable and efficient solution.
- Project lifecycle, coordinating suppliers during the design and implementation phase, assuring strong synchronization of the development plans with corporate roll-out and service-launch scheduling.
- Proactive identification of business impact and project risk, provision of a mitigation plan, decision-making ability and manage conflict.
- Maintain a proper communication channel with Leadership team.
- Maintain a proper communication channel with internal and external stakeholders.
- Embrace Openness, Transparency and supportive work culture to promote team morale and productivity.
- Cross-Domain Team Collaboration, understanding of key stakeholder needs, demonstrating effective initiative and stakeholder management and reporting.

**Who you are**:

- Engineering degree (Bachelor / Master) in telecommunications or computer science or equivalent
- Excellent command over English language including communication and presentation skills - both verbal and written
- Excellent command over German language including communication and presentation skills - both verbal and written
- Professional level of certification in the OSS domain is preferred
- Proven work experience in OSS Probing and active testing domain
- Previous experience in Vodafone, if available, will be considered
- Deep knowledge of telecoms in terms of IT and Network technologies and topologies. Strong knowledge of technology and protocols - e.g. 2G, 3G, 4G, IP, 5G, fixed, mobile, M2M, IoT etc
- Knowledge on 5G (NSA and SA) topology, network nodes, interfaces and passive and active monitoring solutions
- Basic knowledge on big data system architecture. Basic Knowledge on Google Cloud will be considered a plus.
- Very good understanding and interpretation of network signaling transactions and network data sources and feeds.