Passive and Active Probing Sr. Engineer

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At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

What you’ll do

• Design and deliver passive probing solutions for mobile networks, enabling troubleshooting and monitoring functions. 
• Deliver high-quality network data feeds for analytics, reporting, customer experience and optimization use cases. 
• Ensure successful project delivery aligned with milestones, timelines, and quality expectations.  
• Perform planning and optimization in line with traffic growth, network evolution and business requirements, ensuring probing platform scalability, reliability, good performance, along with proper hardware and software lifecycle management. 
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. 
• Define technical requirements for probing and metadata generation projects, assess solution suitability, and govern implementation execution to ensure effective delivery.  
• Design solutions for new service monitoring requirements. 
• Evaluate business, technical, commercial impacts, perform feasibility studies and manage risks through proactive mitigation planning. 
• Identify opportunities for automation and simplification. Adopt automation, AI/GenAI practices and pave the way for Autonomous Network transformation in probing ecosystem. 
• Manage budget planning and execution. Drive cost optimization. 
• Collaborate efficiently with vendors and internal stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery. 

Who you are

• Bachelor’s /Master’s degree in Telecommunications, Computer Science, or a related field. 
• Minimum 5 years of experience in telecom systems, OSS, or network engineering environments. 
• Profound knowledge of mobile network technologies (2G, 4G, 5G NSA, 5G SA), network protocols, 3GPP interfaces, and telecom architecture. Strong understanding of mobile network transactions and ability to interpret network data sources and protocol-specific data feeds. 
• Skilled in OSS architecture, system design, integration, and technical documentation. Strong experience in E2E probing architectural chain: from network element and traffic acquisition methods up to probing application and mediation layer components and ecosystem integrations. Advanced knowledge in metadata generation solutions, data pipelines, data transfer and data enrichment concepts. 
• Strong ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. 
• Robust skill set on project management, project delivery as per plan, budget administration, vendor management, and stakeholder management skills. 
• Familiar with virtualization, containerization, and network cloud concepts. Familiar with IP networking.  
• Knowledge of AI/ML/GenAI and automation principles. Basic programming skills. 
• Customer oriented and result driven mentality, demonstrating a strong sense of ownership and accountability. Strong communication skills. Excellent command over English language including communication and presentation skills – both verbal and written. 

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

What's in it for you

• Award-winning work environment -certified #1 Top Employer in Greece
• Competitive pay, bonus & remuneration package
• Private Health & Medical Insurance
• Hybrid way of working: a blend of remote and office-based working, including the option to work from abroad
• Unlimited access to learning resources and trainings
• Vodafone Parental Leave: 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave to all employees regardless of gender, sexual 
  orientation or length of service
• Spirit of Vodafone Day: one day each quarter dedicated to your personal development
• Extra days off: Vodafone Day, Family Day, Volunteering Day
• Office amenities (subject to the office location): such as restaurant, beauty corner, gym and parking
• Special employee offers and discounts

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.