Network Management Architect

Role: Network Management Architect

Location: Remote

Interview: Phone/Skype

Job Type: Contract

Job Description:

As a Network Management Architect, you have the following expertise:

Kubernetes ecosystem awareness and cloud background

Design cloud specific applications

Design scalable applications for cloud apps that deal with databases, analytics

Experience around cloud database data gathering and consumption

Experience in Elastic Search and Kubernetes

Hands-on experience in various database systems

Good to have telecom and networking experience

Under Kubernetes services, e.g. what can be employed, logging, resource sharing

Key Responsibilities

build an information model, aligned with element management standards and specifications, that represents the system functionality via which an operator shall be able to manage and control his network.

build a scalable system architecture of the Network Management System using cloud native components and micro services architecture.

collaborate with specialists and architects covering different technology domains.

contribute to an NMS application architecture for configuration management of the network elements and functions

contribute to an NMS application architecture for receiving events, notifications, statistics collection from the different network elements and functions.

collaborate with the development teams to ensure the defined system architecture is implementable, inclusive of effort estimation and test strategy.

collaborate with other system architects and development teams to work on proof of concepts and early evaluation.

Other key responsibilities and job functions include:

Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing

Ability to distill and present information to the larger organization.

Knowledge of model driven system architecture and engineering methodologies with a knowledge of SysML and UML is a big plus.

What are the Optional skills and skill proficiencies for this position?

You hold a master's degree in engineering or Computer Science with 5+ years of experience in most of the areas below. You have experience with the Web Application Architectures and distributed system design.

As a Network Management Architect, you have the following expertise:

Thorough understanding of building a consistent Information Model representing a complex system

o Knowledge of modeling languages like UML, SysML is an asset

Broad software background and expertise, covering distributed application architectures

o Experience with software development methodologies and associated programming languages is important

o Experience in designing for scale and high availability.

o Knowledge and thorough understanding of programming languages like Python, Java, Javascript, C++, SQL is an asset

o Thorough understanding of databases like Timescale DB (or any Time Series DB), PostgreSQL, NoSQL (like MongoDB), Cortex DB.

o Experience and understanding of Cloud Native application development best practices, knowledge of micro-services.

o Experience in Kubernetes, Cloud platforms, networking on cloud platforms and Kubernetes ecosystem.

o Experience in data collection pipeline- data extraction, transformation, and integration.

o Experience in log collection systems like Loki, Logstash and visualization systems like Kibana, Grafana.

o Experience is designing using REST, gRPC and GraphQL.

Knowledge about telecom management systems and network management systems (FCAPS & OAM is desired)

o Understanding of network management protocols or generic communication protocols like SNMP/MIB, NetConf/YANG, REST (OpenAPI) or GraphQL is an asset

o Knowledge of telecom management standards provided by TM-Forum, ITU-T, O-RAN, 3gPP or ONF is a plus

o Understanding of security concepts is key (Authentication, Authorization- Role Based Access Control)

o Experience with open source or commercial management systems is a plus