Core Network Architect

About the Company

The “Internet of Things” (IoT) is expected to grow to $19 trillion over the next 10 years as 50 billion devices are brought online. Aeris is at the forefront of this industry, building networks and applications to enable Fortune 500 clients to fundamentally improve their businesses. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Chicago, London, and Delhi as well as other markets, we rank among the top ten cellular providers for the IoT globally. We power critical projects across energy, transportation, retail, healthcare and more.

Aeris provides a SaaS based connectivity management platform for mobile operators and enterprises. It enables organizations to realize new revenue streams from a vast variety of devices while simplifying the process and reducing the cost of connecting them to benefit from economies of scale. The platform provides access to key functionality including subscription management, eSIM/eUICC management via world class APIs and operator and enterprise self-service portals. This is built on core tenants of cloud computing and intelligence (AI/ML). And thanks to our deep expertise and our extensive trusted partner network, we are the go-to destination for those wishing to roll-out high quality global IoT deployment.

We are seeking a “world-class” Solution Architect with IP and Core expertise to join us in the advancement of this next-gen intelligent IoT SaaS Platform to meet future growth and scalability needs. You will be working in a fast-paced, global engineering team while collaborating with other developers, solution architects, Integration engineers, management, and customer support groups. You will have an opportunity to work on the latest technology stack and cloud infrastructure as you will be involved in all phases of the solution
lifecycle and make significant contribution to the team. You will work in the Network Operations team which is responsible for the architecting, development, building and maintaining the 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G messaging and packet switched services. Our IoT Core Solution consists of products such as Signaling nodes, virtualized Packet Core nodes, Subscription database nodes, Mobile Packet Backbone nodes and Messaging nodes.

About you:

• Passionate, innovative, likes to explore and continuously challenge yourself and your team, strong analytical and problem-solving skills and enough years of experience to feel and act like a mentor and a lead
• 3+ years of Solution architecture experience
• E2E Mobile Core knowledge, strong hands on experience in IP and Core Network Architecture Design and integration with relevant knowledge from one or several areas connected to our IoT solution:
  – Packet Core (SGSN-MME, EPG, vEPG, SACC solution, SAPC, SMSC)
  – HLR, HSS, CUDB, EDA
  – Signaling (SS7, Diameter)
  – Circuit Switched Core (2G, 3G and 4G, 5G)
  – IP protocols and flow design (MPLS, VPN, BGP)
  – IP Backbone (routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers)
  – IPWorks (DNS Radius)
  – Experience in Juniper products/applications including virtualized.
• Experience with Cloud orchestration
• Ability to learn new technologies, propose and evaluate options, conduct POCs and provide
  recommendations
• Ability to communicate proactively and effectively with product and engineering management and
  project stakeholders in a highly agile environment
• Ability to independently lead technical designs and implementation of product features
• Experience building and working with cost efficient large-scale production systems
• Up-to-date with the latest technologies with ability to introduce them as needed
• BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Telecommunications or equivalent field
• Excellent communication skills in English (written and verbal)

Nice to have:

• Cisco CCNA
• Juniper Networks Certified Enterprise Routing and Switching Expert
• Ericsson Certified Professional – IP Transport Design
• F5 Certified Technology Specialists
• Extreme Certified Specialist
• Telecom or IOT related product experience
• Previous experience with Cloud Platform services
• Experience with implementing and integrating 3rd-party software components
• Experience with Mobile Networks
• Previous experience working with geographically distributed teams
• Customer communication skills and experience

We offer:

• We’re welcome new ideas and allows you to make an immediate impact on the team
• Flex PTO for any reason, including sick days (no specified limits), flexible work schedule
• Personal laptop
• Budget for English lessons
• Private health insurance coverage
• Remote work + 2/3 times per week office work