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IoT Core Services Engineer

Aggregate function:  Technology
Business Area:  VBPS Product&Platform Engin.
Posting Country:  Portugal
Date Posted:  30 Apr 2024
Full Time / Part Time:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Permanent

At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this. 

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

What's in it for you

By connecting people, places and things, Vodafone IoT helps organisations succeed in a digital world. With our expertise in connectivity, our leading IoT platform and our global scale, we can deliver the results our customers need to progress and thrive. We are helping businesses of all sizes and sectors connect for a better future.

 

The Vodafone Internet of Things (IoT) suite of products and services are designed specifically to meet the needs of new and evolving business verticals, its connection base has grown 20 % per YoY to reach more than 180 million connections at the end of financial year 2023. Vodafone IoT is a leader in the IoT Connectivity Gartner Magic quadrant and has been for 10 consecutive years. To fulfil the Technology requirements of IoT, Vodafone has developed its own IoT Connectivity Management Platform to target the key strategic growth opportunity specifically to meet the needs of Global IoT customers.

Vodafone are also in the process of carving out and separating the IoT Connectivity business to secure additional external investment and maintain our leading position in the industry through the following.

  • Continue accelerating and enhancing our Platform as a Service for Vodafone customers on footprint

  • Launch service proposition in markets that are off Vodafone’s current footprint (US and France)

  • Address long tail lower volume segment through digital self-service platform globally.

 

The successful candidate will be part of an engineering team responsible for design, integration and optimisation of IoT Connectivity solutions, involving both the Network and IT platforms that support Vodafone IoT Services. The main functions will be related to improving and evolving the Connectivity service delivered to Vodafone IoT customers, assuring the proper dimensioning for the IoT platforms, guaranteeing capacity is used efficiently and new services and capabilities are delivered efficiently in time.

Accountabilities:

  • Design, Drive and Deliver the Convergent Charging Service (CCS) on Cloud Transformation program in the Market(s), leading CCS to a Cloud, 5G ready system.  
  • Design and Engineer the solution based on Cloud technologies, such as Containers, Open-Source components (Elasticsearch, Grafana, Kibana, Kafka), CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab, JMeter). 
  • Design and Engineer the software for complying with state-of-the-art Cyber Security guidelines and requirements 
  • Design and Develop backend applications using technologies like JAVA, Python, bash, Groovy, etc. 
  • Own solution HLD and LLD including IP design. Choose technologies and standards used for the underlying capabilities. Determines dimensioning and configuration data per node. Ensures security requirements are embedded in the design.
  • Drive as Technical Lead the delivery projects ensuring a proper coordination of all involved domains (e.g., Infrastructure, Core Network, Operating Support Systems, Provisioning) 
  • Analyse, together with the business demand areas, the needs, requirements and expectations for the definition and implementation of the different functionalities of the CCS projects and commercial products.

What you’ll do

  • Design, Drive and Deliver the Convergent Charging Service (CCS) 

  • Decide and influence the best software architecture for legacy / 5G charging applications.

  • Design and Implement Capacity Planning for CCS 

  • Lead assigned projects coordinating the involved Technology Providers (aka Vendors) 

  • Define and Structure business requirements in coordination with Business Unit following SAFe / Agile approach. 

Who you are

  • MSc/BSc in Computer Science or similar

  • Fluent in English

  • Analytical ability, creativity and problem-solving

  • Knowledge in charging applications

  • Experience in SOAP, Diameter, Restful API appreciated

  • Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) deployment, Kubernetes

  • Charging and Rating Services and Digital Services experience

  • DevOps process and tools (Harbor, Helm, Jenkins, GitLab, JMeter)

  • Programming skills and experience

  • Experience in IT projects delivery.

 

Desirable knowledge/experience:

  • IoT platforms

  • Technical expertise on IT stack (backend and frontend) and BSS desirable

  • Automotive connectivity solutions

  • Experience designing virtualised or cloud architectures, cloud-native containerised microservices and driven by open APIs.

Who we are

We pursue equality of opportunity and inclusion for all candidates through our employment policies and practices. We recognise and celebrate the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our workspace and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination especially related to but not limited to race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation, pregnancy, ethnicity, disability, religion, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, social origin, cultural background, social, or marital status.
 

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All 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 apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.

Together we can

Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.

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