Technical Manager

Come create the technology that helps the world act together

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work.

The team you'll be part of

As Nokia's growth engine, we create value for communication service providers and enterprise customers by leading the transition to cloud-native software and as-a-service delivery models. Our inclusive team of dreamers, doers and disruptors push the limits from impossible to possible.

You will be part of the Cloud and Network Services business group inside Nokia. The Cloud and Network Services business group is a growth engine for Nokia. Our focus is to create value for both service providers and enterprise customers by leading the transition to cloud-native software and as-a-service delivery models as demand for critical networks accelerates.

What you will learn and contribute to

We are looking for Lead Engineer (Technical Manager) working in an international team.

As part of our team, you will:

• Perform Technical expert leadership of the team, working on deployment, integration and testing of Nokia and third-party solutions for 2G/3G/4G/5G Mobile Packet Core
• Help junior team members with troubleshooting and complex integration, help them develop their Packet Core skills and knowledge.
• Consult Project and Presales teams with technical question, help them to understand and escalate technical issues, build realistic solutions and Projects schedules.
• focus on following functional elements: SGSN, GGSN, MME, SGW, PGW, ePDG, TWAG, SSG as well as 5G network functions e.g. AMF, SMF, UPF, NRD and others
• integrate Nokia Packet Core in an end2end environment
• work in openstack and kubernetes based datacenter environments (Redhat,Google Anthos,Amazon AWS,Tanzu,…)
• be upskilled to the latest technological changes related to Mobile Packet Core

Your skills and experience

You have:

• Bachelor and/or Master' Degree in Telecommunication or Information Technology
• Good understanding of telecommunication technologies and protocols with focus on IP and mobile (both voice and data) areas
• Good understanding of virtualization and containerized principles and cloud concept:
  • Basic virtualization terms/requirements -  threads, cores, hypervisor  types, virtualization types, VMs, SR-IOV and other
  • VMware, Openstack components
  • Containerized solutions / container services
  • NFV MANO reference architecture
• Good knowledge on *nix based systems
• IP/MPLS practice knowledge at
  • IPv4, IPv6 addressing
  • DNS systems and protocols
  • IP routing (Static, BGP, OSPF, ISIS)
  • MPLS basics (LDP)
  • NAT/NAPT
  • IPSEC
  • DPI
• Team Player & Technical leader with proven ability of self-learning
• Good communication and negotiation skills in Italian and English
• Readiness to travel and work on customer site.

It would be nice if you also had:

• Strong telecommunication technology knowledge in one or more of areas:
  • IP, LTE ePC, GPRS, 5G, VoLTE/VoWiFi
• Experience to work with existed standards base:
  • ITU-T , 3GPP, IETF
• Practical (testing, troubleshooting) knowledge of the mentioned above technologies
• Valid certificate from list (strongly desirable):
  • ALU SRC (NRS2, MRP, 3RP, SRA)
  • CISCO professional (CCDA, CCNP, CCIE in any field)
  • Juniper SP-track (JNCIS-SP, JNCIP-SP, JNCIE-SP)
• Experience with Nokia products – 9471MME/SGSN, FLEXI NS MME/SGSN, 7750SGW/PGW/GGSN, FLEXI NG SGW/PGW/GGSN, 8650SDM, 5780 PCRF/DSC, NSP CMG, CMM, CBAM
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What we offer

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

• One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
• LGBT+ equality & best place to work by HRC Foundation

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people.

Nokia’s employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.