ORAN - Project Coordinator

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Req ID:12360 

ORAN Project Coordinator

Description – Internal/External

About Fujitsu Network Communications

Fujitsu Network Communications Inc. (FNC) is an innovator in Connection-oriented Ethernet and optical transport technologies, and is a market-leading provider of SONET, WDM, and packet optical networking solutions. Fujitsu enables its customers to migrate to fully converged packet optical networks that improve performance and profitability. With the support of Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702), a $50B company with approximately 170,000 professionals in 70 countries, Fujitsu enables its customers to migrate to fully converged packet optical networks that improve performance and profitability. Over 450,000 Fujitsu network elements have been deployed by all major carriers across North America. Fujitsu maintains a longstanding and highly-regarded position as a market leader by providing best-in-class data networking solutions optimized for Ethernet aggregation, transport and service delivery.  For more information, please see: http://us.fujitsu.com/telecom.

Job Responsibilities:

• Supervise and engage in building the ORAN lab from a management, technical and hand-on perspective.  Handle all materials orders, services and other activities related to building the lab.
• Manage day-to-day Lab activities and customer/partner engagement.
• Hire Lab staff including lab network operations, Test Engineers and ORAN SMEs, software development engineering and Q/A engineers.
• Create training programs for Lab staff to maintain and grow ORAN network and OSS expertise.
• Manage all partners/carriers, CU/DU/OSS provider and systems integrator lab engagements including SOW, lab configurations supporting SOW and day to day activities with each customer and partners.
• Create security process for maintaining multiple customers/partners engineering activities in ORAN lab.
• Ensure total data security between customer/partners projects.
• Management of all test plans and test tool creation.
• Management of all test processes and procedures based on customer/partners SOW.
• Operate lab at optimum operating profit.
• Interface with internal Fujitsu hardware and software business units
• Research new network and OSS technologies and make recommendations for introduction to software lab.
• Prepare lab on an on-going basis to support the latest ORAN services being rolled out by service providers and partners.

Experience:

• Bachelor degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 10 - 20 years’ experience in one or more of these areas: Lab operations, OSS, software development, network integration, OSS integration and ORAN Interoperability testing.
• Demonstrated experience managing large & complex programs, with customer facing responsibilities
• Experience of Software Release Management experience for product and End-to-End deployments
• Excellent knowledge of app and/or cloud deployments and embedded product software release experience
• Knowledge of key RU/DU/CU/EMS and NMS systems used by carriers and partners.
• A solid understanding and practical experience of software development life-cycles with emphasis on release engineering functions
• Proven experience working in complex projects gathering software release requirements
• Demonstrated good understanding of software engineering fields
• Good understanding of continuous integration, continuous delivery concepts and experience in implementing DevOps
• Effective oral, written and presentation skills and ability to develop long-term business relationships
• Good understanding and experience in driving build and test automation strategy
• Multi-vendor products expertise, DELL, HPE, SuperMicro Fujitsu, Kontron, Quanta, RedHat, VMware, WindRiver, Cisco,
• Travel as needed to support customer projects.

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