Specialist System Engineering (MSP Labs Lead)

Job Responsibilities   Automation Architecture & Framework Development     • Own and enhance the GMOP automation framework, ANT-based test automation, and related tooling.    • Develop reusable, modular, environment-aware automation solutions for MSP/proxy and mobile packet core lab environments.    • Maintain a single adaptable codebase across environments, products, and releases using Git-based workflows.    • Create end-to-end test cases, post-validation templates, CLI health checks, and RegEx -based validation logic.    • Promote scalable automation standards across MSP operations, lab certification, and production-readiness workflows.    Procedure Analysis & Automation Strategy     • Analyze vendor procedures and certification requirements to identify repeatable, automatable activities.    • Convert procedure-specific tasks into reusable automation patterns for pre-checks, validations, post-checks, and recurring operations.    • Participate in sprint planning and design discussions to ensure automation objectives , requirements, and deliverables are clearly tracked.    • Use Jira and related project management tools to track requirements, designs, defects, and delivery progress.    • Apply engineering judgment to keep complex or context-specific activities manual where automation is not appropriate.     Systems Integration & Operational Consistency     • Bridge vendor deployment procedures with internal automation platforms, ANT, Azure DevOps, and lab certification workflows.    • Generalize release-specific requirements into reusable automation solutions across MSP, proxy, SMF/UPF, SGW/PGW, and related packet core domains.    • Enable consistent execution across deployment environments, network domains, and lab-to-production readiness activities.    • Collaborate with platform, testing, infrastructure, and operations teams to troubleshoot automation, tooling, and mobility infrastructure issues.    • Align automation with operational objectives , enterprise standards, Agile delivery practices, and quality expectations.    Technical Leadership & Team Development     • Provide technical direction and mentorship to engineers across automation, lab certification, and mobile packet core domains.    • Develop technical depth in 3GPP 5G SA SMF/UPF and LTE/NSA SGW/PGW workflows.    • Drive adoption of automation technologies, operational efficiencies, and quality-focused engineering practices.    • Foster continuous learning, innovation, technical excellence, and a win-as-one team culture.      Job Qualifications / Required Qualifications   • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science , Engineering, IT, Telecommunications, or equivalent experience.     • Expert-level working experience with 3GPP Mobile Packet Core architecture, interfaces, and call flows, with focus on LTE/NSA SGW/PGW and 5G SA SMF/UPF/NRF/MIND/UDR/UDM.     • Strong hands-on experience troubleshooting mobility infrastructure, services, lab environments, and distributed networked systems.     • Strong Linux/Unix administration knowledge and understanding of TCP/IP, UDP/QUIC, SSL/TLS, firewall , NAT/PAT, routing, Ethernet, VLAN, and BGP concepts.     • Experience designing reusable, modular, scalable automation frameworks using Python, Ansible or comparable automation platforms, and object-oriented programming practices.     • Experience with Azure, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, ADO pipelines, ADO agents, ADO Repos, Git branching/tagging strategies, and az CLI usage within pipelines.     • 3+ years of experience with Regular Expressions and experience creating CLI health checks, validation templates, and automation scripts.     • Experience with Kubernetes, YAML, JSON, Robot Framework, Selenium, JavaScript, or comparable testing and automation tools.