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 RAN Product Manager will directly shape Dense Air’s 5G RAN solutions, focusing on RAN hardware and software 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 RAN products
- Establish and maintain feature requirements and roadmap for the RAN products and be the “Business Owner” for them, contributing to Dense Air’s overall product roadmap.
- Develop RAN products 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 solutions.
- Provide input and direction to the RAN product development process
- Drive technical specification in RFIs/RFPs
- Manage 3rd Party Hardware Products and Relationships
- Capability for regular international and domestic travel
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, O-RAN)
- Strong industry knowledge and aptitude
- Experience working with 4G and 5G RAN and their associated component elements.
- Knowledge of 4G/5G RAN design for small cells and neutral host
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 market and 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.
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
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.
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
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.
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
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.
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
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.
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
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
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
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.
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Data Engineer is responsible for providing the right data, to the right place, in the right format. They will work with business owners to transform data into valuable resources through the design and development of data processing pipelines that are fully automated, resilient, maintainable and comply with Dense Air’s data governance and information security policies.
The Data Engineer is responsible for designing and implementing data flows, business logic, metadata management and telemetry to ensure that data is reliably available to stakeholders on time and to the highest quality.
The Data Engineer will work with peers in the Data and Analytics group, collaborate with business stakeholders and other technical teams to provide end-to-end data capabilities, ensuring Dense Air’s tactical and strategic business objectives are met.
The Data Engineer will bring with them a skillset that demonstrates their abilities as a cloud data engineer, GCP-centric but open to working with other cloud service providers where appropriate. They will share their knowledge both intra and inter teams and be able to participate and contribute to the currently evolving micro-service architecture, advising where relevant how to leverage the appropriate resources available to achieve the company’s ambitions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analysis and profiling of source data to enable its effective integration and use
- Design and develop data processing pipelines that process huge volumes of 3rd party, internal and client data.
- Working with technical peers, design software that optimizes Dense Air’s on-premises and cloud footprints.
- Ensure data engineering best practices are introduced into the development process, resulting in the creation of a high value data asset.
- Ensure that data governance and information security is included in all solutions by design and that relevant metadata is collected and stored in appropriate repositories.
- Design and build software that is flexible, scalable, maintainable and of high quality.
- Continually monitor data ingest and 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:
- Three years working in a data engineering capacity, in a medium or large sized organisation.
- Strong knowledge of software programming languages such as SQL and Python
- Experience of micro-service architecture and containerisation and appreciate the full life cycle of their development process
- Experience of working with serverless cloud technologies such as GCP Cloud Run, Cloud Function, Apigee
- Experience of working within a big data environment, with knowledge of batch orchestration frameworks such as GCP DataFlow and various storage technologies, such as GCS, blob, RDBMS, NoSQL
- Experience of working with GIS and spatial databases or extensions such as PostgreSQL with PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, MS SQL Server Spatial, GeoMesa and GeoTrellis.
- Experience of leveraging Cloud compute such as GCP BigQuery for querying Big Data at scale and how to optimise data models to improve performance, scaling and cost
- Experience of common data management concepts and patterns such as ETL, Meta Data Management, Data Quality and Lineage.
- Appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of using SaaS, PaaS and IaaS solutions
- 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.
- Passionate about providing best-in-class data to our stakeholders.
- Able to document designs with strong attention to detail.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- Enthusiastic about development, sharing experience and best practice and able to write clear and maintainable software.
- Able to present information in a concise way to stakeholders.
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
Main Purpose of the Job:
The scrum master is responsible for ensuring agile principles and values are adopted by the Data and Analytics scrum teams, helping them improve their process, drive out decisions and ensure teams are coordinated in delivery.
The role will work within the Data and Analytics group and be responsible for decomposing product roadmaps into quarterly programme increments and with the assistance of team leads, map features to scum teams and ensure they are delivered.
The scrum master will monitor progress, remove blockers, and prepare status reports for stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan, manage and deliver products using agile methods and principles.
- Mentor scum teams on effective adoption of agile methods and principles.
- Ensure that collaborative tools such as Jira are used actively by team members and best practices are embraced.
- Manage risks, issues, and dependencies through communication with Dense Air teams and external vendors.
- Ensure roadmaps and delivery plans are integrated across engineering and customer facing teams.
- Monitor progress and prepare reports providing accurate status updates that highlight risks and issues, changes to plans and dependencies.
- Organize product demonstrations to stakeholders as appropriate.
Education and Experience:
- Preferably a certified SAFe scrum master.
- Five years working as a scrum master or similar, either in a start-up or enterprise.
- Demonstrably strong knowledge of using agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban to deliver solutions.
- Experience of delivering data and analytics products.
- Understanding of software development practices such as estimation, DevOps, CI-CD pipelines, automated testing and the associated software development life cycle.
- Technical degree in IT, Data or relevant field preferable.
Personal Qualities
- Outstanding problem solver and team player.
- Passionate about providing best-in-class data products to our stakeholders.
- Very strong communicator
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- Enthusiastic about development, sharing experience and best practice
- Able to present information in a concise way to stakeholders.
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Data Analyst plays a key role in the interpretation and analysis of data collected by Dense Air, to drive operational processes and strategy relating to small cell deployment. It is a pivotal role in turning our data assets and analytical products into tangible insights.
Identify and introduce new data sources as required to ensure sufficient and relevant data is collected.
Develop analytical products in support of Dense Air’s business.
Perform Data Quality assessments, ensuring that Dense Air’s data assets are of high value.
The Data Analyst will work under the direction of the Head of Data and Analytics and Lead Data Scientist to ensure overall data analytical goals and strategy are met.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analysis of large quantities of data to produce insights supporting a variety of business strategies, such as identifying small cells deployment strategies.
- Supporting the Lead Data Scientist in the development of algorithms to improve and automate data analysis.
- Market research of alternative data sources used to identify mobile network usage and performance.
- Apply a variety of data visualisation techniques to transform analysis into key insights, including analysis in GIS formats.
- Creation of internal and external reports based on data analysis.
- Manage the relationship with data vendors and identification of data vendors providing alternative sources of data.
- 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 “big data” analytical role
- Code-writing experience (SQL and Python essential)
- Data visualisation / story-telling experience
- Experience of working with GIS tools preferable
- Experience of working with data relating to a mobile network preferable.
- Technical degree or equivalent qualifications preferable.
Personal Qualities
- Excellent problem solver and team player.
- Able to analyse and assess large quantities of data.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- Able to present information concisely to stakeholders.
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
Main Purpose of the Job:
The web and front-end team are responsible for developing an intuitive and interactive user interface, presenting a range of Geo Spatial based data analytics.
The Web Developer is responsible for the design, build and implementation of the web-based user interface, including but not limited to ensuring integration with back-end services, testing and CI-CD frameworks.
The Web 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 GUI requirements.
- Design and develop web and front-end software to dynamically present GIS based data via an interactive web GUI
- Design and build solutions that are flexible, scalable, maintainable, aesthetic and of high quality.
- Participate in the full development life cycle, including agile ceremonies and code reviews.
- Ensure web design best practices are introduced into the development processes and GUI, ultimately resulting in a fantastic user experience.
- Continually monitor usage patterns and provide feedback into software optimization, improvements and new features.
Education and Experience:
- Five years working on web development in a medium or large sized organisation.
- Demonstrably strong knowledge of web technologies such as React and JavaScript.
- Deep experience in front end design, with an attention to detail and visual flair.
- Experience in developing CI-CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, test and design led development and other associated software engineering best practices.
- Experience of working with Geo Spatial data, mapping API’s and spatial databases.
- Technical degree in Computer Science, Computer 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.
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
Main Purpose of the Job:
Senior RAN Engineer is a critical role within our clients growth trajectory. The successful individual will be responsible for:
- Translating overall project requirements into RAN HLDs and LLDs
- Technical authority for integration of our clients solutions to key OpCo partners
- Working with OpCos to define and oversee Commercial Pilots and Initial network roll-outs using global 4G & 5G Neutral Host Small Cell Solutions
- Enabling OpCos to roll out and operate commercial RAN solutions
- Providing RAN optimisation support for OpCos
Key Responsibilities:
- Create RAN HLDs and LLDs
- 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
- Carrying out interfaces trace analysis to identify issues, drive test logs collection and analysis etc
- Interface with service partners and OpCo technical staff for solution performance and optimisation issues.
- 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 RAN optimization
- Any experience with 5G/ORAN topics valuable
- 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
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
Main Purpose of the Job:
Dense Air is expanding its use of Jira Cloud to more effectively capture product requirements / implementation / test, as well as using Jira a tool for the customer service desk.
The organisation is looking for an Atlassian Jira expert to configure the tool to map to business process needs. The role will involve gathering process requirements from each of the teams, to playback how Jira can help to address these requirements, and to deliver on the proposed implementation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Gather business process needs from the product management, development, test and operational teams within the organisation
- Translate business process needs to well-architected Jira solutions
- Collaborate with the stakeholders to configure Jira functionality and workflows to deliver on the business needs
- Implement external facing service desk to provide external customer and partner access to create and track field issues
- Recommend, advise and manage Jira plug-ins
- Define strategy for maintaining/monitoring security across the Jira projects
- Integration with third-party products where applicable
- Refine Jira presentation layer for effective reporting internally and external KPIs to support contractual obligations
- Jira subject matter expert coaching project administration and best practices
- Advise on advanced Jira features to benefit Dense Air’s business objectives
- Documenting “How-to” guides to allow ongoing Jira maintenance and enhancements
Education and Experience:
- Certified in Jira administration
- Minimum 3 years Jira administration experience. Within a medium size enterprise preferable
- Expert-level knowledge mapping business needs to Jira configuration
- Experience of Jira configuration for effective Requirements Management, Test and Defect Tracking, Service Management
- Python scripting with Jira Query Language (JQL) preferable
- Experience of Agile and Waterfall development environments preferable
- Experience in a product development and customer service organisation 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 both verbally and written documentation
- Able to explore and analyse complex inter-related systems, with a willingness to engage in topics outside the scope of the primary task.
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
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 high level and low level designs, test documentation and operational guidelines relating to the deployment and operation of Dense Air’s cloud network.
The Cloud Engineer will support the investigation 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 high and Low Level 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.
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
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
- 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.
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
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.
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Embedded 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 Embedded Software Engineer will build high-quality, innovative and fully performing software that complies with coding standards and technical design.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and develop the functional test and application software for the Dense Air controller board
- Work with DevOps to integrate into the official build pipeline
- Collaborate with the hardware team developing PC based functional test and debug capability to validate Dense Air’s outdoor small cell
- Execute full software development lifecycle delivering well-designed, testable code
- Document the software architecture, design, test harness equipment setup, and user guides
- Meet project timescales, following industry standards
- Maintain software, integrate latest features and refactor as necessary
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management
Education and Experience:
- Strong software programming skills (C/C++. Python preferable)
- 3+ years embedded real-time microcontroller and/or Linux development
- Full software lifecycle including design, design documentation, source control, unit test, integration test, user documentation
- Board functional test design and development, preferable
- GCP integration to provide IoT sensor and device management, preferable
- 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
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
Main Purpose of the Job:
The security engineer will be responsible for the hands on implementation of security designs for Dense Air across its product portfolio and OpCos. The role will involve working with other design teams on ensuring that key security requirements are implemented.
The security engineer is responsible for developing the low level security designs and maintaining these as the security landscape evolves.
The security engineer is expected to to assist in supporting the configuration of security on network elements such as firewalls and servers.
The security engineer will assist the senior security architect and other lead architects in helping develop workable and useable security processes to support the Dense Air business
The security engineer is expected to present solutions and concepts to senior management both inside Dense Air and to our customers and partners.
Key Responsibilities:
- Implementing security designs based on guidance and requirements from the senior security architect
- Working with technical peers to ensure that their domains are secure for service
- Ensure that the latest security recommendation and guidance are implemented in Dense Air deployments
- Ensure that security governance is being followed and contribute to security policy and process design
- Work with Dense Air’s 3rd party security monitoring partner in rolling out monitoring
- Respond to security incidents and provide support to the Dense Air business in times of compromise
- Help instill a culture of design for security amongst peer engineers and architects
Education and Experience:
- Five years working on implementing security solutions within on premise and cloud domains.
- Understanding of security frameworks and their implications on security engineering
- Knowledge of telecommunications security standards , particularly that related to the Small Cell Forum or 3GPP.
- Knowledge and experience of implementing PKI
- Experience of using and configuring IPsec based environments
- Experience of configuring network elements such as firewalls and severs to enable security monitoring
- Knowledge of implementing security tooling such as SIEM , IDM and SSO
- Technical degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security Engineering or relevant field preferable.
Personal Qualities
- Outstanding problem solver and team player, who can drive delivery and implementation
- Passionate about ensuring we have best in class security processes and practices.
- Able to document designs with strong attention to detail.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- Enthusiastic about cyber security and the role it has to play in securing businesses
- Able to present information in a concise way to stakeholders.
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).
Main Purpose of the Job:
The Core Network Architect is responsible for defining reference network designs to enable the deployment of Dense Air’s multi-tenancy RAN-as-a-Service solution towards MNOs and private enterprise.
Working within a team of architects, the Core Network Architect has specific focus on 4G/5G mobile core (for private networking applications) and the neutral host platform, which provides IP security, traffic aggregation, breakout and interconnect towards MNOs and other tenants.
The role also includes working closely with the Network Integration & OpCo Enablement team to assess customer requirements against Dense Air’s current and planned capabilities, documenting high level service designs for specific business opportunities.
Research and identify current and future technology trends and industry standards and technology architecture viewpoints to address stakeholder concerns.
May require some domestic and international travel.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work as a 4G / 5G network architect, understanding 3GPP functions (4G & 5G), neutral host models, virtualised infrastructure (virtual machines, containers), IP architectures and Linux OS.
- Definition of redundant, scalable and high availability solutions pertinent to the core network, and coordinating with the underlying infrastructure.
- Creation of Reference Designs for the 4G/5G core network and neutral host platform, including 3GPP compliant nodes and protocols.
- Work with other Dense Air architects on definition of end-to-end Solution Architecture and ensure reference designs work as a coherent set, comply with the architecture framework and ensure interworking between network domains.
- Work closely with System Engineering to understand the evolving muti-tenancy capabilities within Dense Air’s solutions and incorporate these into network reference designs.
- Collaborate with other architects and product managers to connect technology with measurable business value and help customers solve problems.
- Support technical customer engagements by presenting architectures & solutions and mutually agree integration designs.
- Managing the technical relationship between Dense Air and key Core Network vendors.
- Keep abreast of the latest technological developments (e.g. O-RAN, network slicing, microservices, Kubernetes), evaluate new trends and introduce relevant findings into Dense Air’s solution architecture as appropriate.
- Identify testing strategies and test plan development required for the core network evolution of the different Dense Air OpCos
- Work closely with the Network Engineering team to validate designs before releasing to Dense Air Operating Companies.
- Other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by Senior Management.
Education and Experience:
- Degree (or equivalent) in electrical engineering, computer science or equivalent technical discipline.
- 5+ years working in a similar role in a wireless operator, vendor or other service provider environment.
- Experience working with 4G/5G core networks and associated core network infrastructure essential.
- Experience working in a network virtualization environment.
- Knowledge of IP Networking required.
- Knowledge of security relating to the core network preferable.
- Experience of working with neutral host/multi-tenancy architectures preferable.
- Strong industry knowledge and aptitude.
Personal Qualities
- Proactive self-starter who works well both independently and collaboratively as part of an agile team
- Able to analyse and assess complex system designs, problem solve and determine end-to-end feature behaviour.
- An excellent planner able to schedule and prioritise work and react positively to issues occurring.
- 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.
Dense Air is an equal opportunities employer. We have a diverse and inclusive culture, respecting everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership (or non-membership).