Dense Air Networks serves the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific, including a comprehensive mid-band and high-band spectrum portfolio of licensed and shared access assets.
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Main Purpose of the Job:
The Cloud Engineer is primarily responsible for the implementation, integration & testing of Dense Air’s global cloud infrastructure (hybrid of on-prem & public cloud) in conjunction with software & hardware suppliers, IaaS, PaaS &, SaaS providers and internal stakeholders.
The Cloud Engineer is responsible for creating Reference Designs, test documentation and operational guidelines relating to the deployment and operation of Dense Air’s cloud network.
The Cloud Engineer will support the investigaton of faults across the cloud infrastructure, working with suppliers and internal development teams to resolve in a timely manner.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work as a virtualization and cloud specialist, with a strong understanding of public, private and hybrid cloud technologies to support the deployment of VNFs & CNFs.
- Work with Solution Architects and other stakeholders to design, implement integrate & test new cloud infrastructure & technologies, creating a corresponding set of Reference Designs, test plans and deployment procedures.
- Install & configure a globally distributed hybrid (e.g. mix of on-prem & public) cloud network to support a wide range of applications, including Packet Core, 5G O-RAN, Management, Control, Data Analytics, Security, Networking etc.
- Establish a set of operational guidelines to enable efficient handover of the cloud network to the operations team for day-to-day operations & monitoring.
- Manage the integration of new applications into the cloud infrastructure, working with application providers and internal stakeholders as necessary.
- Define and test software upgrade procedures, including roll-back procedures.
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- Five years designing, developing and implementing cloud solutions on private and public infrastructure.
- Prior experience in Cloud Engineering or related position.
- Experience managing & maintaining cloud infrastructure.
- Experience working with OpenStack, KVM, Linux/UNIX, Docker & Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of security relating to public and private cloud preferable.
- Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and distributed networks.
- Technical degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant field preferable.
Personal Qualities
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- An analytical mind, with an ability to learn new technologies quickly.
- Able to document network designs with attention to detail.
- Able to present information in a clear and concise way to peers and managers.
- Good time management skills.
Main Purpose of the Job:
Core Integration Engineer is a role within our Network integration and OpCo enablement Team, based in UK. The Core Integration Engineer is primarily responsible for the implementation, testing & support of global 4G & 5G core network infrastructure in conjunction with core solution architects.
The Core Integration Engineer is responsible for customising low level designs, integration testing and troubleshooting, and operational guidelines relating to the deployment and operation of the core network.
Key Responsibilities:
- Install, configure, integrate and support global 4G & 5G core network infrastructure to support private networks and RAN-as-a-Service towards MNOs.
- 4G & 5G core network specialist, with a wide understanding of the 3GPP core network eco-system.
- Work with Solution Architects and other stakeholders to design, implement & test new network solutions, creating a corresponding set of Low Level Designs, test plans and deployment procedures.
- Establish a set of operational guidelines to enable efficient handover of the core network to the operations team for day-to-day operations & monitoring.
- Manage equipment & network upgrades, including the definition of roll-back procedures.
- Provide engineering support to investigate faults in the network, working with equipment vendors as necessary.
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- Atleast 5 years’ experience in network and Telecommunication technology
- Excellent understanding of LTE end to end architecture and procedures
- Experience with Packet Core solutions (4G/5G), including troubleshooting, configuration, Low Level Designs
- Experience with IP Networking including IP addressing
- Any experience with platforms like, containers, Kubernetes is desirable
- Any experience working with High Available Clusters is desirable
- Good understanding of Linux concepts, Linux CLI and Shell Scripting
- Good understanding of virtualization technologies like KVM.
- Good understanding of IPsec
- Transport layer security understanding is desirable
- Suitable Engineering qualification
Personal Qualities
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Flexible and positive attitude
- Team player
- Quick thinker and practical problem solver
- Capable of international travel
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Software Architect is responsible for architecting and designing software solutions associated with Dense Air’s innovative 5G small cell products.
The Software Architect will lead the software development projects with an emphasis on delivering software that is optimised for O-RAN deployments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyse, architect & design complex software systems and sub-systems according to system engineering requirements.
- Lead software development, unit testing and debug activities.
- Act as a technical expert, ensuring that software development activities are carried out to an agreed schedule and set of requirements.
- Collaborate with development and engineering teams according to project requirements and needs on multi-disciplinary projects.
- Create and maintain documentation in accordance with project requirements.
- Follow software lifecycles and QA procedures.
- Participate in or lead design reviews for all stages of the development process.
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- Strong software programming skills (ideally in C/C++ or any other OO language)
- Software architecture skills and optimisation techniques.
- Python scripting and modelling.
- Experience within embedded real-time and multi-threading.
- Working knowledge of 3GPP architecture & protocols desriable.
- Technical degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field preferable.
Personal Qualities
- Strong analytical skills and ability to deliver.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- Able to present information in a clear and concise way to peers and managers.
- Able to explore and analyse complex inter-related systems, with a willingness to engage in topics outside the scope of the primary task.
Main Purpose of the Job:
RAN Planning Engineer is a role within our Network integration and OpCo enablement Team, based in UK. The successful individual will be responsible for Developing and supporting RAN planning process for all DA OpCo’s. This will also include developing and validating Neutral Host O-RAN based RAN planning processes for deployments in shared and licensed spectrum.
There will also be a requirement to engage and support in RAN planning design activities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Developing and optimising processes for design, development, infrastructure evaluation and selection, and rollout resulting in optimum system design solutions for all DA OpCo’s
- Develop and Validate Neutral Host O-RAN based network planning processes for deployments in shared and licensed spectrum
- Perform link budget analysis, design criteria, coverage & traffic/capacity analysis
- RF network design and planning activities using industry standard planning tool
- Ensure data integrity of various morphology/topography databases and drive test data for model calibration
- Working with internal stakeholders
- Working with technology and operational partners
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by the Senior Management
Education and Experience:
- At least 5 years’ experience in 4G RAN planning
- Any experience with 5G/ORAN especially ORAN planning valuable
- Detailed knowledge and experience of RAN rollout lifecycle
- Experience with network planning tools such as ATOLL, Planet etc
- Any experience of transport network planning valuable
- Suitable Engineering qualification
Personal Qualities
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Flexible and positive attitude
- Team player
- Quick thinker and practical problem solver
- Capable of international travel
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Core Product Manager will directly shape Dense Air’s 5G Core solutions by working closely with key internal stakeholders to define and develop the company’s Neutral Host technology solutions and achieve alignment with company vision and strategies.
The Core Product Manager will define the product requirements, build and maintain the business cases and own the full end-to-end product life cycle.
The Core Product Manager will work closely with Dense Air systems and engineering leads (hardware and software), Dense Air Operational Companies and Core Vendors/eco-system during the product development process translating business requirements to product solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define solution and both internal and external development requirements for 4G/5G Core network solution to support Neutral Host small cell deployments aligning with Dense Air’s product strategy direction
- Generate formal documentation capturing product requirements, release plans and roadmaps.
- Provide requirements for testing, integration, and interoperability of hardware products
- Establish and maintain feature requirements and roadmap for the 4G/5G Core product family and be the “Business Owner” for it, contributing to Dense Air’s overall product roadmap.
- Develop product collateral including but not limited to product data sheets, technical presentations, white papers, and feature description documents
- Engage both internal stakeholders and external industry and customer contacts to continuously gather, define and prioritize product and roadmap requirements and provide aggregate product requirements
- Develop sales enablement material to assist in positioning Dense Air’s products and solutions in the market.
- Support sales process by being the go-to person on 4G /5G Core Network solutions.
- Provide input and direction to the product development process
- Drive technical specification in RFIs/RFPs
- Manage 3rd Party Hardware Products and Relationships
Education and Experience:
Essential
- Degree (or equivalent) in electrical engineering, computer science or equivalent technical discipline.
- 5+ years of related product management experience in a mobile 4G/5G Core Network environment with proven track-record of successfully launching new product solutions
- Knowledge of cloud native paradigms and modern platform architectures
- Working knowledge of the challenges that come from multi-tenancy architectures
- Understanding of telecommunication standards (3GPP, RFC, ETSI, 4G, 5G) and market trends
- Strong industry knowledge and aptitude
- Experience working with 4G and 5G Core network and their associated component elements.
- Knowledge of 4G/5G Core network design
Personal Qualities
- Proactive self-starter who works well independently
- Able to analyse and assess complex system designs, and determine end-to-end feature behaviour.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- Able to collect/analyse/document customer needs and use cases and convert those into product requirements
- Able to communicate and present information in a clear and concise way to peers, managers and customers/partners.
- Good stakeholder management and influencing skills with the ability to build internal and external relationships.
Main Purpose of the Job:
NQT is a mobile application deployed on the Android OS used to assess the quality of a mobile network.
The NQT developer is responsible for the design, build and implementation of an embedded Android library (SDK) consumable by other Android applications written in languages such as Java, Kotlin and Xamarin.
The NQT SDK will harvest relevant information from the OS and integrate securely with Dense Air’s data and analytics platform.
The NQT developer will develop software that integrates with host applications, Dense Air security policies and testing and CI-CD frameworks.
The NQT Developer will collaborate with stakeholders across the business to ensure Dense Air’s business objectives are met.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with stakeholders, including users, senior management and the data and analytics team to elicit and define NQT SDK requirements.
- Design and develop NQT SDK software to listen for and collect relevant information from the Android OS and push back to the Dense Air data platform.
- Design and build API’s that enable host applications to interact with the NQT SDK.
- Design and build solutions that are flexible, scalable, maintainable and of high quality.
- Ensure software development design best practices are introduced into processes, resulting in a robust and high-quality product.
- Continually monitor usage patterns and provide feedback into software optimization, improvements and new features.
- Participate in the full development life cycle, including agile ceremonies and code reviews.
Education and Experience:
- Five years working on Android development in a medium or large sized organisation.
- Experience of the low-level Android telephony and location API’s, and knowledge of securing API’s with OAuth 2.0
- Experience of reverse engineering prevention through code obfuscation or other relevant techniques.
- Experience in developing CI-CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, test and design led development and other associated software engineering best practices.
- Technical degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or relevant field preferable.
Personal Qualities
- Outstanding problem solver and team player.
- Passionate about providing a best-in-class user experience.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- Able to present information in a concise way to stakeholders.
Main Purpose of the Job:
We have an exciting opportunity open for someone looking to join the Marketing team that can have a real impact working for a fast-paced, growing, ambitious infrastructure Mobile business. The Marketing Specialist will be responsible for supporting the HQ team across a portfolio of marketing disciplines to attract, acquire, retain, and grow customers and prospects by helping us deliver outstanding collateral and inspiring collateral used to drive interest, educated and persuade future and existing customers.
As a Marketing Specialist within Dense Air you will work closely with the Product Management, Finance and R&D teams team to encapsulate our innovations into collateral that drives our growing brand, drives customer awareness and helps our sales team engagement with both Mobile Operator and Cities and Municipalities. You will provide continuous support to a wide range of internal groups and enjoy creative freedom and autonomy to turn you’re the companies’ ideas and product sets into suites of sales and marketing materials that helps drive our business growth.
Dense Air solutions provide both cities and telecoms providers and you will be tasked with applying your presentation design skills to help visualise our solutions and impact customer engagements and outcomes across various sector verticals. We operate globally and the UK based role will interact with teams in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Belgium and Portugal. You will help position our brand and message into these markets – understanding and target customers groups and stakeholders in each.
Key Responsibilities:
- Help the sales and customer facing engagement position our unique business model and solution set within the Mobile Operator industry segment and our CoFi partners in both Local councils and National government.
- Support the development of sales and marketing programs to generate customer interest.
- Execute, monitor, and track marketing programs, campaigns and event coordination.
- Develop and help execute innovative programs that generate demand for our services and solutions – such as webinars, e-mail, advertising, social media, events, etc.
- Interfaces and works closely with both internal stakeholders and external partners and resources ensuring specific marketing plans are developed and executed to drive incremental growth.
- Proven track record of creating and developing case studies, solutions and services collateral to educate our userbase.
- Co-create pitch decks, training materials and thought leadership – and any other marketing material needed to arm our sales team with the tools they need to close business.
- Proven track record of managing and coordinating event and tradeshow participation.
- Evaluates ROI of marketing tactics, campaigns, and channels.
Education and Experience:
- High skilled “or brilliant” at using software tools like Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Creative Studio or equivalent.
- Experienced working on both Mac’s and PC’s (Mac is essential)
- Solid oral and written communication skills, including analytical writing skills and the ability to create marketing copy.
- Creative, proactive, energetic, but detail-oriented, and some analytic skills.
- Some knowledge and understanding of the telecommunications industry landscape, market trends and Industry structure.
- An avid user of Mobile Technologies and familiarity of modern tech…
- Strong interpersonal skills – Be able to work in a distributed business environment, bridging between our team in the UK, US, EU and Australia / New Zealand
- Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and staff to create a results-driven, team-oriented environment
- Attended Higher education with at least 3 years’ experience in a Business, Marketing or similar role within the Software/Mobile/Technology Industry segment.
Personal Qualities
- Good communication skills
- A champion of team culture
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Highly organised with keen attention to detail, able to work under pressure to multiple deadlines, with multiple stakeholders (Essential)
- An interest in learning about working in a global organisation and excitement about joining a start-up and going on this journey with us
Main Purpose of the Job:
The RAN Product Manager will directly shape Dense Air’s 5G RAN solutions, with an initial focus on outdoor small cells products, by working closely with key internal stakeholders to define and develop the company’s Neutral Host RAN technology solutions and achieve alignment with company vision and strategies.
The RAN Product Manager will define the product requirements, build and maintain the business cases and own the full end-to-end product life cycle.
The RAN Product Manager will work closely with Dense Air systems and engineering leads (hardware and software), Dense Air Operational Companies and RAN Vendors/eco-system during the product development process translating business requirements to product solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define solution and both internal and external development requirements for Open RAN based Neutral Host small cell solutions and competitive environment as well as Dense Air’s product strategy direction
- Generate formal documentation capturing product requirements, release plans and roadmaps.
- Provide requirements for testing, integration, and interoperability of hardware products
- Establish and maintain feature requirements and roadmap for the outdoor small cells product family and be the “Business Owner” for it, contributing to Dense Air’s overall product roadmap.
- Develop product collateral including but not limited to product data sheets, technical presentations, white papers, and feature description documents
- Engage both internal stakeholders and external industry and customer contacts to continuously gather, define and prioritize product and roadmap requirements and provide aggregate product requirements
- Develop sales enablement material to assist in positioning Dense Air’s products and solutions in the market.
- Support sales process by being the go-to person on 4G LTE / 5G-NR RAN small cell solutions.
- Provide input and direction to the product development process
- Drive technical specification in RFIs/RFPs
- Manage 3rd Party Hardware Products and Relationships
Education and Experience:
Essential
- Degree (or equivalent) in electrical engineering, computer science or equivalent technical discipline.
- 5+ years of related product management experience at a wireless networking/RF infrastructure supplier with proven track-record of successfully launching new product solutions
- RF Hardware Experience, understanding of SOC’s, baseband, power amplifiers, L1/L2 MAC/PHY, duplexers.
- Working Knowledge of Mobile standards and evolution (3GPP, CPRI, eCPRI, 4G/LTE-A, 5G)
- Strong industry knowledge and aptitude
- Experience working with 4G and 5G RAN and their associated component elements.
- Knowledge of 4G/5G small cells RAN design
Personal Qualities
- Proactive self-starter who works well independently
- Able to analyse and assess complex system designs, and determine end-to-end feature behaviour.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- Able to collect/analyse/document customer needs and use cases and convert those into product requirements
- Able to communicate and present information in a clear and concise way to peers, managers and customers/partners.
- Good stakeholder management and influencing skills with the ability to build internal and external relationships.
Main Purpose of the Job:
Based in our Auckland office, the Customer Service Manager will be working closely with our service provider partners to ensure Dense Air’s deployed network consistently meets our agreed service levels. The CSM is DANZ’s first point of contact for any network issues, triaging all inquiries, managing any required responses, and marshalling DANZ’s and our partner’s resources to achieve our committed service levels.
The CSM could be talking to the Network Operations Centre (NOC) and dispatching field service teams to maintain the network in the morning, writing telco node performance reports in the afternoon, and then updating our customers, vendors, and internal stakeholders on the status of our services to close out the day. When not ‘putting out fires’ in the network, the CSM will be working closely with key service providers to Dense Air on regular work schedules, and deployment and maintenance programs. Working with skilled service provider teams you’ll focus on providing the first level input or response to any work undertaken on behalf of Dense Air.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain a high standard of performance for all services delivered to our customers
- Act as the first point of contact for Dense Air’s Service Providers
- Improve the quality of Dense Air services by monitoring delivery and evaluating Customer feedback
- Manage Service Providers through event responses, ensuring processes, policies and procedures are followed
- Assist the wider DANZ team to maintain an understanding of our Service Providers’ solutions, technologies and business in order to ensure Dense Air’s ability to achieve service level commitments to our Customers
- Contribute thoughts and ideas to maintain a high-quality service experience for Dense Air Customers
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management
Education and Experience:
- Ability to develop strong, lasting relationships with service providers and/or technical teams
- Experience in enforcing process – with an eye on process improvement
- Can show an aptitude toward all things technical and ability to learn on the job
- Solid knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite
- Service Delivery experience preferred but not critical
- Experience supporting mission-critical systems preferred but not critical
Personal Qualities
- Confidence when dealing with fast-breaking events, keeping calm under pressure
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
- Open friendly personality, who can build trusted relationships quickly
- Passion for technology
- A motivated and confident self-starter that has a willingness to learn
- Flexible time management with ability to thrive in a busy role
- Delivery focussed with creative problem-solving skills, and passion to ensure success in a start-up company
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Project Manager is responsible for planning and overseeing development projects across the technical organisation. Includes projects associated with the design, build & testing of 4G & 5G Core Network, RAN solutions & Big Data Analytics to enable Dense Air to deliver RAN-as-a-Service across the world.
The Project Manager will ensure that projects are completed to specification, within an established timeframe and to an agreed budget.
The Project Manager will work closely with the Project Team and the Programme Management Office (PMO) to ensure all project deliverables and milestones meet the overall business objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with management, PMO and Dense Air Operating Companies to identify project scope, requirements, delivery timelines and costs.
- Identify and assign technical resources to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner. Ensure deliverables, roles & responsibilities are clearly defined.
- Prepare budget based on scope of work and resource requirements.
- Track project costs in order to meet budget.
- Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan to guide key stakeholders and technical staff.
- Provide regular project updates, including any adjustments, strategy & progress to management, PMO and other stakeholders.
- Monitor project progress to ensure timely delivery.
- Establish & maintain a Risk Register to identify and manage risks associated with the development activities.
- Establish & maintain an Issues Log to manage issues that arise during the development activities.
- Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement.
- Utilise industry best practices, techniques and standards throughout project execution.
Education and Experience:
- Over 5 years of project management and related experience.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
- Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices.
- Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget and timeline.
- Degree in Computer Science, business or related field preferable.
- Experience working in Telecoms and/or a Development organisation preferable.
- Agile experience preferred
Personal Qualities
- Outstanding problem solver.
- Excellent analytical skills.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful.
- Able to present information in a clear and concise way to peers and managers.
Main Purpose of the Job:
Field Verification Engineer (Core) is a role within the Product Applications Group, based in UK. Field Verification Engineer (Core) is primarily responsible for the implementation, testing, verification & support of 4G & 5G core network infrastructure.
The Field Verification Engineer (Core) will create Test Object Lists and test procedures, then document and verify and operation and performance of the core network relating to 4G & 5G RAN systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Help to write and then execute ToL for core network infrustructure
- Install and configure 4G & 5G core network infrastructure in lab comms room and other field test locations
- Manage server upgrades and SW package installations, including the definition of roll-back procedures.
- Provide engineering support to investigate faults in the network core, working with equipment vendors as necessary
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management
Education and Experience:
- At least 5 years’ experience in network and Telecommunication technology
- Excellent understanding of LTE end to end architecture and procedures
- Experience with Packet Core solutions (4G/5G), including troubleshooting, configuration, Low Level Designs
- Experience with IP Networking including IP addressing
- Any experience with platforms like, containers, Kubernetes is desirable
- Any experience working with High Available Clusters is desirable
- Good understanding of Linux concepts, Linux CLI and Shell Scripting
- Good understanding of virtualization technologies like KVM
- Good understanding of IPsec
- Transport layer security understanding is desirable
- Suitable Engineering qualification
Personal Qualities
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Flexible and positive attitude
- Team player
- Quick thinker and practical problem solver
- Capable of international travel
Main Purpose of the Job:
Core Training Engineer is a role within our Network integration and OpCo enablement Team, based in UK. The Core Training Engineer is primarily responsible for the development, delivery, and maintenance of training courses related to core network.
Key Responsibilities:
- Complete lifecycle management of training courses: development, delivery, and maintenance.
- Developing and delivering training courses on wide ranging topics in core network domain including Dense Air Neutral host network architecture, core network products, operational practices, and technology
- Development of a wide-ranging knowledge of core networks, with the drive to keep current and adapt to a quickly moving industry.
- Creation of video-based training materials
- Participate in core network verification activities, develop and deliver hands on training courses for troubleshooting and configuration of core network
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- At least 3 years’ experience in technical training role
- Excellent understanding of LTE end to end architecture and procedures
- Specialist knowledge of Packet Core solutions (4G/5G), including specifications, troubleshooting and configuration
- Understanding of IP Networking including IP addressing
- Understanding of platforms like containers, Kubernetes
- Understanding of virtualisation technologies like KVM
- Suitable Engineering qualification
Personal Qualities
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Flexible and positive attitude
- Personable and engaging.
- Capable of international travel
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Systems Engineer is responsible for working on system level analysis and design specifications for Dense Air’s innovative small cell products.
The Systems Engineer will proactively engage in advanced research and technology evaluation, working closely with the Product Management team to establish a technology roadmap.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform system level analysis of new products and features, establishing a corresponding set of system design & feature requirement specifications for the product development team.
- Analyse 3GPP specifications and output from relevant industry forums based on product & market requirements.
- Produce feasibility studies and system simulations, using outputs to influence the system design.
- Define system verification & test strategy, working with the Engineering & Test team to ensure products and features are released to the required quality.
- Definition of system level traceability between requirements, risks and tests
- Management of systems integration activities in collaboration with Engineering & Test team.
- Collaborate with 3rd party vendors and partners, ensuring any requirements or co-operative designs are fully understood and documented.
- Actively contribute to internal and external technical reviews and discussions when requested.
Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- Over 10 years relevant systems engineering experience.
- Working knowledge of 3GPP architecture & protocols.
- Experience in building simulations & models (e.g Matlab).
Technical degree in Physics, Maths, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant field.
Personal Qualities
- Strong analytical skills and ability to deliver.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- Able to present information in a clear and concise way to peers and managers.
Able to explore and analyse complex inter-related systems, with a willingness to engage in topics outside the scope of the primary task.
Main Purpose of the Job:
Product Applications Team has a critical role within Dense Air Group. The team is responsible for defining installation/integration practices and physical designs that can be adopted Globally by all of Dense Air OpCo’s. Customised solutions and trial equipment for particular business opportunities also need to be created within this team.
The Senior Demo/POC Engineer will be responsible for integration of new RAN solutions within Dense Air customer networks for demonstration and validation purposes. This role involves working closely with FOA & Trials Team together with Dense Air Development teams and 3rd party equipment vendors to deliver demonstrations for potential future customers as well as existing Operations Companies within Dense Air.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for developing small scale RAN and Core (transportable) demonstration systems
- Participation as required in OpCo demonstrations and special deployments in various countries
- Integration support and familiarization of new 5G and 4G RAN systems
- RAN equipment customization and use of 3rd Party equipment to deliver working demonstration systems
- Creation of RAN deployment practises for demonstration and special deployment purposes
Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by the Head of Product Applications
Education and Experience:
- At least 7 years working experience in 4G/5G environment, preferably RAN deployments
- Experience in testing and deployment of wireless networks
- Experience in Telecommunications installation practises, including server installations
- Hands on experience with RF installations, computer systems and a wide range of associated telecoms equipment
- Familiar with command line equipment interfaces and IP protocols
Suitable Engineering qualification (HNC, HND, Degree)
Personal Qualities
- Practical electronics capabilities
- Flexible and positive attitude
- Quick thinker and practical problem solver
Capable of international travel
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Antenna Engineer is responsible for the design of Dense Air’s smart antenna solutions optimised for small cell products. This involves a mix of in-house design and collaboration with specialist partners to secure best-in-breed performance.
As part of the role, the Antenna Engineer is expected to build and test prototype antennas, and work with internal stakeholders on the optimisation of performance against simulations and models.
Key Responsibilities:
- Technical ownership of the antenna design used within Dense Air’s small cell products in accordance with the requirements defined by the product management and system engineering teams.
- Design of advanced switched beam antennas to allow dynamic and selectable beam patterns to be formed. Work closely with system engineering teams to provide modelling and simulations.
- Coordinate with EMC engineers, mechanical engineers and industrial designers in order to test and integrate the antenna solution developed with other products.
- Analyse the antennas and design using CAD techniques.
- Develop prototypes and test them in the field as well as in the lab.
- Manage the far-field testing of antennas done in the latest facilities.
- Manage relationships with partners, external contractors and suppliers associated with the design & development of antennas.
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- Over 5 years relevant antenna design experience.
- Experience of CAD packages essential.
- Experience working in Telecoms preferable.
- Technical degree in Electronic Engineering or relevant field.
Personal Qualities
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- An analytical mind, with an ability to learn new technologies quickly.
- Able to document network designs with attention to detail.
- Able to present information in a clear and concise way to peers and managers.
- Good time management skills.
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for designing and developing software solutions for Dense Air’s small cell products. Includes gathering requirements, design, implementation and test.
The Senior Software Engineer will build high-quality, innovative and fully performing software that complies with coding standards and technical design.
Key Responsibilities:
- Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility.
- Work with Technical Project Manager to estimate ROMs and project skillsets.
- Execute full software development lifecycle delivering well-designed, testable code in suitable programming languages.
- Generate flowcharts, layouts, APIs and other documentation.
- Integrate software components into a fully functional software system.
- Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures.
- Meet project timescales, following industry standards.
- Maintain software, integrate latest features and refactor as necessary.
- Continue to refine software design, development, build and test working practices.
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- Strong software programming skills (ideally in C/C++ or any other OO language)
- Software writing skills and optimisation techniques.
- Experience within embedded real-time and multi-threading.
- Working knowledge of 3GPP architecture & protocols
- Technical degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field.
Personal Qualities
- Strong analytical skills and ability to deliver.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- Able to present information in a clear and concise way to peers and managers.
- Able to explore and analyse complex inter-related systems, with a willingness to engage in topics outside the scope of the primary task.
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Mechanical Engineer is responsible for the design and development of Dense Air’s Small Cell solutions, including chassis / enclosures, mounting and thermal management. This includes management of suppliers or partners involved in the development & manufacturing processes.
As part of the role, the Mechanical Engineer is expected to create CAD drawings and design documentation that can be used for design reviews and the development of prototype as well as production hardware.
Key Responsibilities:
- Technical ownership of the mechanical and thermal design of Dense Air’s small cell products in accordance with the requirements defined by the product management and system engineering teams.
- Selection of suitable materials for the construction of enclosures, taking into account RF propagation
- Compliance against regulatory requirements, including FCC, CE & safety.
- Designing for manufacturing, taking into account manufacturing processes & costs.
- Work with the technical project manager to establish a development plan relating to the mechanical and thermal designs.
- Creation of prototypes to facilitate the review of concept designs, evaluate designs against deployment practices and ensure suitability with Dense Air Operating Companies.
- Responsible for analytical verification of designs, testing of initial protypes and working with the manufacturing team on final product testing.
- Key contributor to customer technical documentation including installation and operational manuals
- Manage relationships with partners, external contractors and suppliers associated with the design & development of products.
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- Over 5 years relevant mechanical & thermal design experience.
- Prior experience in product design & manufacturing.
- Experience of CAD packages essential.
- Experience working in Telecoms preferable.
- Technical degree in Mechanical Engineering or relevant field.
Personal Qualities
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- An analytical mind, with an ability to learn new technologies quickly.
- Able to document network designs with attention to detail.
- Able to present information in a clear and concise way to peers and managers.
- Good time management skills.
Main Purpose of the Job:
Key Partner Technical Lead is a role within our Network integration and OpCo enablement Team, based in UK. The successful individual will be responsible for leading integration activities with partner MNOs and suitable designs creations to address project requirements. This will include mapping and customising reference network designs to address project requirements and ensuring the provided solution can be fully integrated with MNOs network. Job will involve working on implementing O-RAN 5G SA solution.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensuring successful translation of overall project requirements into HLDs and LLDs
- Lead a small team of RAN, Core and Services Integration Engineers
- Leading integration plans creation, implementation, and reporting
- Supervise and advise on all issues related to integrations for new hardware, software or features
- Primary technical interface for customer MNOs
- Interface with service partners to ensure smooth solution integration
- Working with internal stakeholders
- Working with technology and operational partners
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by the RAN Integration Manager
Education and Experience:
- Have extensive experience in mobile telecommunications industry in lead role
- Experience in creating HLDs and LLDs
- An in-depth knowledge of mobile networks particularly 4G & 5G RAN/CN with particularly deep understanding of signalling, design, and operation.
- Any experience with 5G/ORAN especially ORAN validation valuable
- Excellent troubleshooting & Optimisation skills.
- Familiarity with test software & post processing tools
- In depth experience of analysing drive test logs, Wireshark traces and protocol analysers traces for 4G/5G networks.
- A good knowledge of RAN parameters & timers
- Suitable Engineering qualification
Personal Qualities
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excellent team player that can collaborate with other functions or teams on initiatives/recurring issues to find solutions or establish best practices
- Capable of owning and driving significant and fast-paced workload: drive ad-hoc, complex, projects or processes that routinely require judgment or prioritization
- Flexible and positive attitude
- Capable of international travel
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Head of Software leads and manages a team of developers with responsibility for the design & development of Dense Air’s innovative small cell products, including any collaboration with development partners.
The Head of Software is responsible for mentoring and growing the team, and establishing and maintaining a professional culture within the team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Recruit, task-manage and performance-manage a high performing team of Software developers.
- Technical ownership of all software related projects, including the design and development of small cell products in accordance with technical strategy and requirements defined by the PLM team.
- Contribute and review requirements specifications, business and product use-cases ensuring alignment across business and engineering teams.
- Work with the Technical Project Manager to provide ROMs, fully resourced development plans, and feeding into status reports and risk registers.
- Responsible for a high quality technical approach taken by team and ongoing rigor, to ensure commercial grade products are delivered on time and within budget.
- Identification of best-in-class development tools, assessing their fit within the Dense Air development methodology.
- Develop and refine the development process, mapping to development toolsets and the Continuous Integration pipeline.
- Work closely with the system test team to validate products against original design requirements.
- Manage relationships with partners, external contractors and suppliers associated with bought-in software and libraries.
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- Over 10 years relevant software development experience.
- Proven track record managing and building small to medium teams.
- Prior exposure to project management.
- Experience working in Telecoms preferable.
- Technical degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Communications or relevant field preferable.
Personal Qualities
- Able to work in a fluid, agile environment.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- Able to present information in a clear and concise way to peers and managers.
- Demonstrates team management and influencing skills.
Main Purpose of the Job:
Core Engineer is a role within our RAN Engineering Team, based in USA. The Core Engineer is primarily responsible for the implementation, testing & support of 4G & 5G core network infrastructure in conjunction with core solution architects.
The Core Engineer is responsible for customising low level designs, integration testing and troubleshooting, and operational guidelines relating to the deployment and operation of the core network.
Key Responsibilities:
- Install, configure, integrate and support global 4G & 5G core network infrastructure to support private networks and RAN-as-a-Service towards US customers.
- 4G & 5G core network specialist, with a wide understanding of the 3GPP core network eco-system.
- Work with Solution Architects and other stakeholders to design, implement & test new network solutions, creating a corresponding set of Low Level Designs, test plans and deployment procedures.
- Manage equipment & network upgrades, including the definition of roll-back procedures.
- Provide engineering support to investigate faults in the network, working with equipment vendors as necessary.
- Able to collect analyse logs for troubleshooting
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- Atleast 5 years’ experience in network and Telecommunication technology
- Excellent understanding of LTE/5G end to end architecture and procedures
- Experience with Packet Core solutions (4G/5G), including troubleshooting, configuration, Low Level Designs
- Experience with IP Networking including IP addressing
- Understanding of fiber connectivity and dimensioning desirable
- Any experience with platforms like, containers, Kubernetes is desirable
- Any experience working with High Available Clusters is desirable
- Good understanding of Linux concepts, Linux CLI and Shell Scripting
- Good understanding of virtualization technologies like KVM.
- Good understanding of IPsec
- Transport layer security understanding is desirable
- Suitable Engineering qualification
Personal Qualities
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Flexible and positive attitude
- Team player
- Quick thinker and practical problem solver
- Capable of international travel
Main Purpose of the Job:
RAN Engineer is a technical role within our RAN Engineering team, based in USA. The successful individual will be responsible for delivering, and supporting 5G RF Network planning, optimization/troubleshooting and rollout process for DA US Networks.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform link budget analysis, design criteria, coverage & traffic/capacity analysis
- RF network design and planning development activities using and enhancing Dense Air small cell planning methodologies and toolsets
- Provide support for POCs with various customers
- Analyze KPIs and performance data for various DA networks in US
- Troubleshoot field network issue by engaging other operations team
- Ensure data integrity of various morphology/topography databases and drive test data for model calibration
- Working with internal stakeholders
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by the Organization
Education and Experience:
- At least 7 years’ experience in 4G/5G RAN planning and optimization with US carrier.
- Any experience with 5G SA /ORAN especially ORAN planning valuable
- Knowledge of CBRS/shared spectrum valuable
- Detailed knowledge and experience of RAN rollout lifecycle
- Experience in strategies, planning and execution process development for radio networks
- Experience working with jurisdictions for planning, zoning and permitting.
- Experience with network planning tools such as ATOLL, Planet etc
- Experience with data collection tools such as TEMS, XCAL, QXDM etc.
- Any experience of transport network planning valuable
- Suitable Engineering degree
Personal Qualities
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Adaptable to fast pace working environment
- Flexible and positive attitude
- Capable of international travel
Main Purpose of the Job:
Field Verification Engineer (RAN) is a role within the Product Applications Group, based in UK. The Field Verification Engineer (RAN) is primarily responsible for the testing, verification & support of 4G & 5G network infrastructure in the Dense Air lab environment and at selected field test locations.
The Field Verification Engineer (RAN) will create Test Object Lists and test procedures, then document and verify the functionality and performance of a wide array of 5G and 4G RAN systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Help to write and then execute ToL for RAN systems
- Install, configure and integrate 5G and 4G Nodes in lab comms room and other field test locations
- Support some field deployment of equipment for the purpose of OTA testing
- Manage equipment & network upgrades, including the definition of roll-back procedures.
- Provide engineering support to investigate faults in the network, working with Dense Air development and other equipment vendors as necessary.
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- At least 5 years’ experience in network and Telecommunication technology
- Excellent understanding of LTE end to end architecture and procedures
- Experience with IP Networking including IP addressing
- Good understanding of Windows Machines to install and configure peripheral cards and Apps
- Good understanding of Linux concepts, Linux CLI and Shell Scripting
- Good understanding of virtualization technologies like KVM.
- Good understanding of IPsec
- Suitable Engineering qualification
Personal Qualities
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Flexible and positive attitude
- Team player
- Quick thinker and practical problem solver
- Capable of international travel
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Senior Commercial Finance Manager will work closely with the Commercial Finance Director to support the c-suite (and their teams) providing insightful, timely and accurate analysis to aid effective decision making, consistent with company strategic and financial objectives. Particular focus will be on analysis/modelling to support potential commercial deals and strategic partnerships. The role will also work with the FP&A and cross functionally to ensure accurate reporting of performance against expectations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the Commercial Finance Director in building commercial/financials models to forecast returns on prospective commercial roll outs of Dense Air Products
- Working with management team to ensure they understand the modelling, and are providing the relevant inputs
- Preparing presentational materials on prospective commercial deals to the c-suite and for the shareholders, and assisting/leading on the presentation of those materials
- Assisting the Commercial Finance Director and CFO on analysis for wider strategic objectives including potential disposals, partnerships, JVs, acquisitions to achieve company strategic objectives and shareholder requirements
- Working closely with FP&A team to ensure accurate and timely budgets, re-forecasts and Long Term Plan updates, that accurately reflect management’s view of opportunities, timing and costs
- Working collaboratively with Central Finance Team and FP&A to ensure we build systems and process in our monthly reporting that produce accurate and timely information that reflects demands of the business and allows effective decision making/tracking of performance against forecasts/modelled opportunities
- Drive responsibility of performance against targets through the management team
- Ad-hoc assistance to c-suite/CFO/Commercial Finance Director as the business grows and matures
- Assist Commercial Finance Director in building a successful team to support the business as it grows
- Lead/Support on Government funded projects
Education and Experience
- Qualified accountant
- Minimum of 2 years post qualitied experience
- Financial and commercial modelling experience
- Commercial Finance experience, working with and supporting Senior Management
Personal Qualities
- Structured and methodological approach to dealing with complexity, breaking problems down into tasks and solving them one step at a time
- Focused and driven
- Great attention to detail, but can focus on big picture and what’s important/most impactful
- Enjoys working with people and driving effective decision making
- Flexible approach and willingness to “roll up their sleeves” to work on aspects most pressing and support the wider Finance Function and business
- Self-motivated and driven to achieve
Main Purpose of the Job:
Services Integration Engineer is a critical role within our clients growth trajectory. The successful individual will be responsible for:
- Translating overall project requirements into HLDs and LLDs
- Technical authority for integration of our solutions to key OpCo partners
- Enabling OpCos to roll out and operate DA 4G/5G solutions
- Providing E2E testing support for OpCos rollout plans
- Creating and executing test plans to ensure E2E functionality for all network services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create Network HLDs and LLDs
- Carrying out DA solution integration activities including interfaces trace analysis to identify issues, drive test logs collection and analysis etc
- Carrying out Initial tuning of new deployment. This involves site parameter audits, collection and post processing of drive test logs, site RF KPIs and alarms monitoring, RF optimisation and parameter tuning, updating LLD following the tuning activities etc
- Create E2E integration & test plans
- Mobile Private Network Commissioning, Databuild scripting & Integration activities
- Interface with service partners and OpCo technical staff to ensure smooth integration.
- Create customised operational guidelines.
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by the RAN Integration Manager
Education and Experience:
- Experience in 4G E2E testing and troubleshooting
- Any experience with 5G/ORAN topics valuable
- Detailed knowledge and experience of network integration, test and deployment methodologies
- Experience in field trials of 4G/5G features
- Experience with network planning & optimization tools such as TEMS, Actix, ATOLL, Wireshark etc.
- Suitable Engineering qualification
Personal Qualities
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Flexible and positive attitude
- Team player
- Quick thinker and practical problem solver
- Capable of international travel
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Senior Test Development Engineer plays a key role in the development of the test automation framework for Dense Air’s internally developed RAN solution and integrated third-party products. This includes playing a key role in the quality assurance phase of the product CI/CD pipeline, as well as a test tool for development and network engineering teams.
The test automation framework is a vital tool in the validation of Dense Air’s end-to-end Neutral Host 5G network, including Core, RAN and OSS functions. Enabling the rapid deployment of 5G networks across Dense Air’s operating businesses.
The Senior Test development Engineer will define implement and test the automated test framework that ensure product & network builds meet functional and non-functional specifications and provide confidence that our software is of the highest quality and meets customer expectations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Introduction and execution of an automated test strategy across the team in line with Dense Air engineering practices, ensuring requirements and defect traceability throughout.
- Consideration for initial rollout, maintenance and ongoing feature development.
- Architect, design, implement and test of the automated test framework to be used by System Test, Development and Network Engineering teams.
- Consider build versus buy risks/benefits/considerations for test framework and associated tools.
- Follow Dense Air development practices during the design and development of the test framework, including change management, source control, documentation and test.
- Integration with CI/CD pipeline.
- Automated Test lab documentation and build-out.
- Consideration for test scheduling, repeatability, test reports, event reporting, logging, defect root cause analysis.
- Rollout and adoption of the test framework across the Engineering team.
- Contribute and review requirements specifications, business and product use-cases to ensure the automated test framework continues to play a key role in Dense Air’s product development.
- Support QA system test, integration, and development teams to continually increase automated test coverage.
- Mentoring and coaching across the Test Development team.
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- Five years working in a test automation development role.
- Previous coaching/mentoring/leading preferable.
- In-depth knowledge of verification strategies and automatic verification tools.
- Knowledge of 4G/5G mobile networks preferable.
- Experience working in an Agile environment beneficial.
- Experience of CI / CD implementations.
- Technical degree preferable.
Personal Qualities
- Able to structure and execute testing strategies around customer needs and expectations.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- Able to present information in a clear and concise way to peers and managers.
- Good stakeholder and team management relationship and influencing skills.
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Network Engineering Manager leads a team of network engineers with responsibility for lab evaluation, engineering & testing of Dense Air’s 4G & 5G network infrastructure solutions.
The Network Engineering Manager is responsible for developing Low Level Designs, operational guidelines and technical training to support Dense Air’s global network operations teams.
The Network Engineering Manager provides an engineering service to build, configure, maintain and support Dense Air’s global 4G & 5G network infrastructure, including the integration with customer and partner networks.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the network engineering function across all design, test & support activities.
- Work with the Technical Project Manager to identify and assign engineering resources to support the testing of each design, including the creation of reference LLDs and test plans across all technology disciplines.
- Work closely with the Chief Architect to ensure the network is built, integrated and tested according to high level design requirements before releasing to Dense Air Operating Companies (OpCos).
- Responsible for the deployment of new network infrastructure and processes across Dense Air OpCos, including the administration and proactive management of patches and design updates.
- Perform hands-on technical work on escalated network engineering matters; refer major hardware and/or software issues or defective product issues to vendors, solutions architects or Chief Architect
- Hold the network engineering team accountable for their deliverables and ensure that projects are delivered by agreed timelines.
- Develop systems & tools to ensure in-depth, repeatable and automated testing of network infrastructure and solutions.
- Implement, manage and evaluate network engineering operational processes and procedures in accordance with the standards and procedures set out by the organisation
- Establish technical training documentation and deliver training courses across the technical community as required.
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- Over 10 years working with network and telecommunications technology.
- Experience with 4G core networks.
- Knowledge of IP Networking required.
- Experience managing other engineers.
- Possess well-developed customer focused skills, committed to helping and supporting end users.
- Strong background in disaster recovery and business continuity.
- Technical degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant field preferable.
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Data Product Manager will directly shape Dense Air’s data and analytics solutions, with an initial focus on using data to identify commercial opportunities, predictive network deployment and automated network optimisation, by working closely with key internal stakeholders to define and develop the company’s data product roadmap and achieve alignment with company vision and strategies.
The Data Product Manager will define the product requirements, build and maintain the business cases and own the full end-to-end product life cycle.
The Data Product Manager will work closely with Dense Air Data and Analytic leads (Data Science, Data, Platform and Mobile Apps), Dense Air Operational Companies and data vendors eco-system during the product development process translating business requirements to product solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define solution development requirements for Data and Analytics solutions as well as Dense Air’s product strategy direction
- Generate formal documentation capturing product requirements, release plans and roadmaps.
- Provide requirements for testing, integration, and interoperability of data products
- Establish and maintain feature requirements and roadmap for the Data and Analytics product family and be the “Business Owner” for it, contributing to Dense Air’s overall product roadmap.
- Develop product collateral including but not limited to product data sheets, technical presentations, white papers, and feature description documents
- Engage both internal stakeholders and external industry and customer contacts to continuously gather, define and prioritize product and roadmap requirements and provide aggregate product requirements
- Develop internal and external enablement material to assist in positioning Dense Air’s data and analytics products and solutions in the market.
- Provide input and direction to the product development process
- Drive technical specification in terms of functional and non-functional requirements
Education and Experience:
Essential
- Degree (or equivalent) in computer, data science or equivalent technical discipline.
- 5+ years of related product management experience with a specific focus on data and analytics, with a proven track-record of successfully launching new product solutions both internally and externally.
- Good working understanding of Big Data concepts, mobile applications and awareness of approaches to solving problems with Data Science techniques.
- Experience of working within an Agile software development life-cycle – authoring Epics and Features for sprint planning.
- Good working knowledge of mobile telecommunications business. Radio Access Network experience useful.
Personal Qualities
- Proactive self-starter who works well independently
- Able to analyse and assess complex system designs, and determine end-to-end feature behaviour.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- Able to collect/analyse/document customer needs and use cases and convert those into product requirements
- Able to communicate and present information in a clear and concise way to peers, managers and customers/partners.
- Good stakeholder management and influencing skills with the ability to build internal and external relationships.
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Senior System Test Engineer plays a key role in verifying the functionality of Dense Air’s internally developed RAN products. This includes playing a key role in the quality assurance phase of product development, ensuring any defects are recorded and prioritised.
The role includes the integration and verification of Dense Air’s end-to-end Neutral Host 5G network, including Core, RAN and OSS functions. This is a vital part of Dense Air’s business, enabling the rapid deployment of 5G networks across Dense Air’s operating businesses.
The Senior System Test Engineer will cover both a strategic and hands-on role, to define and implement manual and automated testing regimes that ensure product & network builds meet functional and non-functional specifications and provide confidence that our software is of the highest quality and meets customer expectations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Introduction and execution of a test strategy across the team in line with Dense Air engineering practices, ensuring requirements and defect traceability throughout.
- Aid in the development, provisioning and maintenance of the Continuous Integration pipeline.
- Design of a stable lab environment for the testing of products and end-to-end networks.
- Build and maintain test environments
- Contribute and review requirements specifications, business and product use-cases to plan/scope new feature introduction. Ensure appropriate tests are captured, defined and implemented.
- Write and execute test scripts ensuring functional and non-functional requirements are met by products and end-to-end networks.
- Scheduling test alongside supporting development with root cause analysis.
- Work closely with the test development teams to continue to improve test coverage.
- Incorporate automated testing into System Test processes.
- Develop and maintain regression test to verify product builds, increase early defect discovery, increase productivity, and provide faster release cycles.
- Creation of internal and external product quality reports based on objective analysis of test outputs.
- Identification of best-in-class test frameworks and tooling, assessing their fit within the Dense Air product development methodology.
- Mentoring and coaching across the System Test team.
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- Five years working in a system verification role, testing 4G / 5G products, RAN experience preferable.
- Previous coaching/mentoring/leading preferable.
- In-depth knowledge of verification strategies and automatic verification tools.
- In-depth knowledge of mobile networks, especially 4G and 5G 3GPP standards.
- 5G ORAN experience preferable.
- Experience working in an Agile environment beneficial.
- Experience of CI / CD implementations.
- Technical degree preferable.
Personal Qualities
- Able to structure and execute testing strategies around customer needs and expectations.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- Able to present information in a clear and concise way to peers and managers.
- Good stakeholder and team management relationship and influencing skills.
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Senior Integration Engineer plays a key role in verifying the functionality of Dense Air’s internally developed RAN products. This includes playing a key role in the quality assurance phase of product development.
The role includes the integration and verification of Dense Air’s end-to-end Neutral Host 5G network, including Core, RAN and OSS functions. This is a vital part of Dense Air’s business, enabling the rapid deployment of 5G networks across Dense Air’s operating businesses.
The Senior Integration Engineer will work closely with the Development to allow early test exposure of the features in development. Using their technical expertise, the engineer will ensure the feature is designed for test. The role will provide a bridge between Development and System Test teams to ensure product & network builds meet functional and non-functional specifications and provide confidence that our software is of the highest quality and meets customer expectations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute and review requirements specifications, business and product use-cases to plan/scope new feature introduction. Ensuring requirements are testable.
- Providing test support to the development team during project scoping and learning phases.
- Work with the development team to ensure the design and implementation caters for test, including adequate test harnesses and logging/metrics.
- Build and maintain test environments
- Monitoring the implementation phase against feature requirements and test coverage.
- Early exposure to features allowing initial integration testing, root cause analysis and feedback.
- Author manual and automated test procedures in parallel with feature development.
- Provide training to the system test team on new feature introduction and impact on test.
- Test tools evaluation.
- Mentoring and coaching across the Test Integration team.
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- Five years working in an integration test role, or combination of product development and test.
- 4G / 5G product experience, with 5G ORAN experience preferable.
- Previous coaching/mentoring/leading preferable.
- In-depth knowledge of verification strategies and automatic verification tools.
- Experience working in an Agile environment beneficial.
- Experience of CI / CD implementations.
- Technical degree preferable.
Personal Qualities
- Able to structure and execute testing strategies around customer needs and expectations.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring. Proactive approach to test execution and fault finding.
- Able to present information in a clear and concise way to peers and managers.
- Good stakeholder and team management relationship and influencing skills.
Main Purpose of the Job:
The System Test Engineer plays a key role in verifying the functionality of Dense Air’s internally developed RAN products. This includes playing a key role in the quality assurance phase of product development, ensuring any defects are recorded and prioritised.
The role includes the integration and verification of Dense Air’s end-to-end Neutral Host 5G network, including Core, RAN and OSS functions. This is a vital part of Dense Air’s business, enabling the rapid deployment of 5G networks across Dense Air’s operating businesses.
The System Test Engineer will define and implement automated testing regimes that ensure product & network builds meet functional and non-functional specifications and provide confidence that our software is of the highest quality and meets customer expectations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute and review requirements specifications, business and product use-cases ensuring that appropriate tests can be defined and implemented.
- Design of a stable lab environment for the testing of products and end-to-end networks.
- Write and execute test scripts ensuring functional and non-functional requirements are met by products and end-to-end networks.
- Define and implement an automated testing regime verifying that products & end-to-end networks meets requirements and providing timely feedback to developers.
- Develop and maintain regression test to verify product builds, increase early defect discovery, increase productivity, and provide faster release cycles.
- Creation of internal and external product quality reports based on objective analysis of test outputs.
- Identification of best-in-class test frameworks and tooling, assessing their fit within the Dense Air product development methodology.
- Aid in the development, provisioning and maintenance of the Continuous Integration pipeline.
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- Five years working in a system verification role, testing 4G / 5G RAN products.
- In-depth knowledge of verification strategies and automatic verification tools.
- In-depth knowledge of mobile networks, especially 4G and 5G 3GPP standards.
- 5G ORAN experience preferable.
- Experience working in an Agile environment beneficial.
- Experience of CI / CD implementations.
- Technical degree preferable.
Personal Qualities
- Able to structure and execute testing strategies around customer needs and expectations.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- Able to present information in a clear and concise way to peers and managers.
- Good stakeholder and team management relationship and influencing skills.