Vodafone
Senior Orchestration 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.
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What You’ll Do
- Accountable for design, development and deployment of complex solutions across the European markets and Group functions in line with business needs and the domain's and vertical's strategy
- Accountable to manage demand, requirement engineering and architecture of project solutions. Engages and drives the communication with local stakeholders during the full project duration and ensures that the systems designed by the LCMs are covering the entire functionality as requested
- Independent and responsible execution of complex and strategic programs & projects and lead of multinational and cross domain working groups
- Independent and autonomous development of technical concepts for special tasks and presentation to expert boards and management meetings
- Requirements definition: Work with network and service designers to establish what the orchestration application needs to achieve in the network
- Automation Development: Design and implement automation tools and frameworks to streamline processes and enhance system integration
- Workflow Management: Work with network and service designers to establish the what the orchestration application needs to achieve in the network
- Service Model Definition: Good working knowledge of TMF and IETF network and service models for L2 and IP VPN services
- Collaboration: Work with suppliers, architects, network and service designers to determine the best orchestration solution to fit with the Vodafone OSS strategic architecture
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues to ensure high availability and reliability of orchestrated services
- Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of orchestration processes, workflows, and system configurations
- Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continuously enhance orchestration solutions
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Who You Are
- Excellent leadership and project management
- Strong cost and performance orientation
- Ability to build trust and manage stakeholders across a highly diversified, matrixed structure.
- Excellent delivery mind, balancing conflicting priorities and needs
- Driving innovation and learning culture
- Proficiency in orchestration tools such (e.g. Cisco NSO, Nokia IBSF, Ciena BPO), APIs (e.g. REST, RESTCONF, Kafka SOAP/XML) and scripting languages (e.g. Python)
- Good know-how in network architecture
- Good know-how on Vodafone products and network provisioning protocols
- Good know-how in Software-Engineering processes (both agile and waterfall)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address complex technical challenges
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.
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What's In It For You
- Yearly bonus: 10%
- Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
- Charity days: 5 days/year
- Maternity leave: 52 weeks: the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay
- Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%
- Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
- Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan
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.
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