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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 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:
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:
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 Software Developer role is responsible for designing and developing the software for Dense Air’s Network Management solution, which aggregates monitoring and control of heterogeneous network component and devices.
The Software Developer is responsible for designing and implementing integration to managed components, data collection and monitoring of events, and implementation of APIs to facilitate front-end use cases.
The Software Developer will work with peers in the Software Engineering group, collaborate with business stakeholders and other technical teams to provide effective network management capabilities, ensuring Dense Air’s tactical and strategic business objectives are met.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build and unit test software that is flexible, scalable to many managed components, maintainable and of high quality.
- Working with technical peers, design software that optimizes the use of Dense Air’s on-premises and cloud footprints.
- Apply best practices to the development process, resulting in the creation of a flexible and effective solution.
- Ensure that security is included in all solutions by design.
- Participate in the full development life cycle and QA process, including supporting integration testing.
- Use of Jira and Bitbucket development tools.
- Other duties appropriate to the post may be assigned from time to time by the Head of Software.
Education and Experience:
- Minimum five years working in commercial software development.
- Strong knowledge of Python programming language
- Experience of REST API development using Flask or similar
- Experience working with relational database technologies such as PostgreSQL.
- Experience with monitoring solutions such as Prometheus/Graphite beneficial
- Experience with front-end technologies such as Typescript and React beneficial
- Understanding of DevOps, CI-CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, test and design led development and other associated software engineering best practices.
- Technical degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant field preferable
Personal Qualities
- Outstanding problem solver and team player.
- Enthusiastic about development, sharing experience and best practice and able to write clear and maintainable software.
- Able to document designs with strong attention to detail.
- Able to react positively to issues occurring.
- Able to present information in a concise way to stakeholders.
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Software Developer role is responsible for designing and implementing software solutions associated with Dense Air’s innovative 5G small cell products.
The Software Developer will participate in software development projects with an emphasis on delivering software that is optimised for O-RAN deployments.
The Software Developer role will also include integration with systems outside the RAN domain.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build and unit test complex software systems and sub-systems according to software architecture and system engineering requirements.
- Collaborate with software architects and developers, as well as other engineering teams according to project requirements and needs on multi-disciplinary projects.
- Create and maintain relevant design documentation in accordance with project requirements.
- Follow software lifecycles and QA procedures including supporting integration testing
- Use of Jira and Bitbucket development tools.
- Participate in design and code reviews during the development process.
- Other duties appropriate to the post may be assigned from time to time by the Head of Software.
Education and Experience:
- Minimum five years working in commercial software development.
- Strong C/C++ software programming skills
- Experience writing low-latency, high throughput applications
- Working knowledge of 3GPP architecture & protocols highly desirable
- Knowledge of Python programming preferable
- Experience with embedded real-time and multi-threading desirable.
- Technical degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field preferable.
Personal Qualities
- Outstanding problem solver and team player.
- Enthusiastic about development, sharing experience and best practice and able to write clear and maintainable software.
- Able to document designs with strong attention to detail.
- Able to present information clearly and concisely to peers.
Main Purpose of the Job:
We are looking for a passionate Financial Accountant to join a small team of accountants supporting a growing company by facilitating parent company reporting under US GAAP; audited UK financial statements under FRS102; and monthly and quarterly management accounts preparation. Based in Marlow, this role offers hybrid working and excellent varied responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ownership of certain month-end processes, including some of: bank reconciliations, salary journals, prepayments, intercompany reconciliations, lease accounting, purchase order and invoice accruals, inventory movements and fixed asset capitalization and depreciation
- Preparing internal and external financial reporting including contribution towards management accounts, P&L review and balance sheet for monthly and quarterly reporting packs
- Support on reporting of financial statements, statutory and Group audits of subsidiaries
- Liaising with external auditors for subsidiaries and at Group level
- Ensuring controls are in place in the P2P process, including: regular reviews of open POs, receipting processes, overdue invoices and the cash flow forecast
- Process improvement for financial controls, financial reporting, cash flow forecasting and finance systems
Requirements and Skills
- Qualified accountant, ACCA preferred
- Demonstrable experience in resolving reporting and control shortcomings with automated or system-based solutions
- Strong technical accounting knowledge
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong Excel skills: familiarity with functions such as Tables, Xlookup, Index and experience with Pivottables
- Experienced user of ERPs/finance systems (Netsuite preferred)
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 tenacious
- Enjoys communicating with people
- Willing to step in to fill resource gaps in the short term
Main Purpose of the Job:
The DevOps Engineer is responsible for the creation, enhancement and management of the CI/CD pipeline to ensure the full automation, release and management of software for Dense Air’s Cloud and Embedded products.
The DevOps Engineer will work with the development and test to ensure a stable and secure delivery process.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create, refine and maintain the software development CI/CD pipeline and associated processes
- Management, maintenance and automation of tools to enhance the CI/CD pipeline
- Oversee the delivery of software applications in test and deployment environments, for both Cloud and embedded software components
- Version control of software deliverables and third-party software components
- Collaborate with software, test, network engineering and project management teams
- Maintain data quality, integrity and security of build configuration and software artifacts
- Recommend, implement and document best practice for on-premise and cloud-based application security
- Integration of change management, source control and test
- Create and maintain documentation of all DevOps procedures and practices
- Disaster recovery plans are put in place and well-rehearsed
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- Configuration and management of production grade container solutions, with a working knowledge of Kubernetes preferable
- Delivery and scaling out secure cloud based microservices solutions, preferably on GCP and AWS
- Experience of all aspects of the software lifecycle in Agile and Waterfall development environments
- Delivery of both Cloud and embedded products preferable
- Integration Atlassian products (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence), Git, GitLab, Jenkins, Bamboo tools
- Minimum 5 years DevOps experience
- Knowledge of health monitoring tools
- 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 both verbally and written documentation
- Comfortable to mentor and lead a small team
- 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 Project Manager will be allocated operational projects by the PMO from across the business and work closely with the relevant teams to ensure the timely delivery of project milestones and the swift resolution of any issues.
The role is responsible for planning project tasks, tracking progress, managing risks, delivering identified objectives, and providing timely, accurate and insightful status reports to management and stakeholders.
The Project Manager is required to manage projects on a day-to-day basis and is accountable to the PMO where the deliverables and resources for multiple project streams are consolidated and controlled.
Key Responsibilities:
- End-to-end delivery of specific projects in line with agreed metrics including customer acceptance.
- Project planning, structuring, leading of assigned work orders and customer interfacing.
- Liaise with a variety of stakeholders to define project scopes, requirements, assumptions, priorities, delivery timelines dependencies.
- Plan, lead and monitor actions to manage and implement cross business interrelated activities.
- Identify and manage project risks and ensure correct resource and owner is used to mitigate impacts.
- Create and maintain key project documents, detailed project plan, risk register, issue log, action tracker.
- Work closely with the finance team to manage project budget and financial forecasts.
- Ensure sufficient resources are allocated and managed effectively to deliver stated objectives and outputs.
- Ensure that project roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and understood.
- Manage and monitor the performance and subcontractors.
- Hold regular and ad hoc meetings with the project team, key stakeholders, and customers.
- Proactively deliver meaningful and timely progress reports within the project governance framework.
Education and Experience:
- 3-5 years in Telecom industry and customer facing projects.
- Extensive prior experience and track record in delivering network rollout and operational projects.
- PRINCE 2 Practitioner or PMP certification is essential.
- High proficiency in MS project and robust scheduling, financial and risk management, and presentations.
- Proven ability to complete projects according to cost, quality, and time.
- Computer science or engineering degree/qualification desirable.
What we are looking for:
- Effective written and spoken communication skills to engage competently at all levels.
- Demonstration of principles, methods, techniques, and tools for the effective management of project delivery from initiation to implementation.
- A highly motivated individual that can operate effectively as part of a team.
- Able to manage difficult stakeholders and navigate ambiguous /complex environments.
- Analytical, solution oriented and able to deal with a fast moving and multicultural environment.
- Location in the North of England is an advantage.
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:
In this role you will be primarily be providing executive administrative support for the President and CTO of Dense Air.
As a high tech company, we are looking for someone with a technical background, who can provide technical support to the CTO. This includes providing technical analysis to support CTO activities, and partnering closely with CTO’s direct reports, acting as a liaison between the various departments within the CTO organisation.
You will have access to sensitive forward-looking information on where the company is headed and will be trusted to nurture and protect it.
Key Responsibilities:
- This role is supporting the President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Dense Air.
- Support the President and CTO in day-to-day calendar strategy and management, research and background material compilation, travel coordination, communication flow internally and externally, greeting guests, maintaining and executing on a task list.
- Drive initiatives and programs to sustain the morale across the President’s organisation – with specific focus on the CTO organisation – and establish communication and trust between teams. Be approachable to all team members and be viewed as a trusted advisor
- Set the priority of time usage for the President & CTO and guide the calendar to reflect the highest areas of priority.
- Prepare and manage after-actions for the President & CTO’s meetings (including steering groups, board meetings, QBRs and executive meetings), including providing briefs, summaries, action items, minutes and slides.
- Set-up and manage President & CTO dashboards to track overall business / team performance and progress of key activities.
- Manage planning, communication, and coordination of special meetings such as Team All-Hands & offsites.
- Collaborate with other Executive Assistants and the office management team to help with company-wide initiatives (Leader Kickoff, Board Meetings, All Hands)
- Support (or drive if necessary) President & CTO special projects.
- Communicate with internal staff and other key stakeholders on the President & CTO’s behalf. Navigate personalities, build rapport, influence without authority, and intuitively know what needs to get done.
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by the President or CTO.
Education and Experience:
- 4 years of experience and demonstrated success at all levels of executive assistant tasks, ideally supporting C-level executives in Product Development or Engineering.
- Experience working in a fast-moving tech organization or supporting a global engineering team.
- Technical degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant field preferable.
Personal Qualities
- Self-starter, with an ability to work independently and collaborate with others.
- Extraordinary organizational skills and flexibility.
- Strong decision-making abilities and an ability to juggle multiple responsibilities with an attention to detail at all times.
- Ability to thrive under pressure and maintain a high level of professionalism and confidentiality.
- Expert-level written and verbal communication skills.
- Capable of protecting confidential information and acting with total discretion to earn solemn trust.
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.