Remote Framework and RAS Lab Manager
The Remote Framework is Nokia´s customer connectivity solution and connects Nokia employees to our worldwide customers. The Remote Framework focusses on secure connectivity, legal compliance, export control and data privacy compliance and is a part of a complex echo system to realize that.
The Remote Framework contains several software components/subsystems that interact with variety of applications as well as users (Nokia engineers) by producing a service such as Human access to telco equipment. Platform is globally distributed and serves users from 6 datacenters and 70 servers.
Technology used varies, depending on component/subsystem, today in scope are MS platforms, linux distributions (mainly redhat) and Openstack cloud.
The Remote Framework and RAS lab manager is responsible of maintaining development, testing and customer simulation environments. Lab manager is a member of scrum team to ensure fluent communications and good quality of environment required in development/testing.
Today the lab manager is maintaining some 400+ virtual servers in addition to physical hardware.
Hardware competence (mandatory)
- Dell hardware (VRTX series)
- HP hardware (DL series, BLseries blades, EVA storage)
- Rackmounting, PDUs, cat5, cat6 and optic fiber connectivity
Software competence (mandatory)
- Citrix XEN server
- Citrix Presentation server
- VMWare (able to build and manage virtual datacenter)
- Microsoft operating systems: Win7, Win10, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016
- Linux distributions: Ubuntu, Centos, Redhat, Turnkey
- Sophos AV / UTM
Other (mandatory)
- 5+ years of experience in the area of lab management
- > 3 years of experience with Remote Framework and RAS
- Network skills (routing, firewalling and switching)
- Excellent English language skills
