Sr Specialist System Engineering Mobile Packet Core Certification Automation Engineer

Job Responsibilities

• Develop technical expertise with 3GPP 5G SA Core and actively drive our 24x7 lab certification objective.

• Participate in Sprint Planning and design discussions with the development team to ensure that automation objectives are met.

• Effectively utilize project management tools such as Jira to track requirements design and deliveries of the project.

• Develop expertise in the Automated Network Testing (ANT) platform and become an advocate for its use in both a lab and production environment.

• Improve productivity for the overall team by proposing tools or processes that optimize our quality and rate of delivery.

• Understand the business objectives of our team organization business unit and company.

• Create End-to-End (E2) test cases and post-validation templates using ANT.

• Create Command-Line-Interface (CLI) test case template health checks using ANT and regular expressions.

• Collaborate with platform teams testers and infrastructure teams to troubleshoot automation tooling and mobility infrastructure networks.

• Participate in script lifecycle management including development delivery deployment updates defect management.

Job Qualifications / Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Telecommunications or a related technical field.

• Expert-level experience with 3GPP Mobile Packet Core architecture interfaces and call flows with specific focus on 5G SA NFs and call flow

• Hands-on experience with TCP/IP HTTP2 UDP/QUIC SSL/TLS encryption and related transport/networking fundamentals.

• Strong understanding of Linux firewall concepts (including NAT/PAT) and networking/routing technologies such as Ethernet VLAN and BGP.

• Expert-level experience troubleshooting mobility infrastructure and services in telecom environments.

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure and Azure DevOps (ADO) including:

• building ADO pipelines from the ground up especially YAML-based pipelines

• using Azure CLI (az cli) commands within ADO pipelines to interact with Azure resources

• understanding the role and limitations of ADO agents

• working with ADO Repos including branching and tagging strategies across environments

• Understanding of Azure Key Vault Azure Resource Manager (ARM) including endpoints and service principals.

• Experience with Bicep and ARM templates for Azure resource deployment with emphasis on parameterized infrastructure definitions.

• Experience with Azure Operator Service Manager (AOSM).

• Proficiency in Python development.

• 3 years of experience with Regular Expressions (RegEx).

• 3 years of experience with Kubernetes Azure Azure DevOps and CI/CD.

• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining automation scripts using object-oriented programming principles.

• Strong analytical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication collaboration and reporting skills.

• Ability to clearly articulate concepts solutions and standards to team members with varying levels of technical expertise.

• Experience working in Agile environments including testing methodologies and best practices.

• Strong team-oriented mindset with the ability to collaborate effectively and deliver quality results on time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Robot Framework Selenium JavaScript JSON and YAML.

• Working knowledge of telecom automation and cloud-native operational tooling.

• Experience maintaining code or project artifacts in GitHub or similar source control platforms; public portfolio is a plus.

• Exposure to test automation frameworks and CI/CD-integrated validation practices.

• Strong interest in learning and adopting new tools and technologies.

• Demonstrated intercultural communication skills and ability to work effectively across global teams.

• Experience working in fast-paced cross-functional engineering environments supporting large-scale telecom systems.

• Agentic AI software development and triage.

• Telemetry for Fault/Performance Monitoring and tracing.

Additional Job Information

This is an offshore role that requires daily collaboration with U.S. stakeholders including overlapping work hours to ensure effective partnership and meet business needs.