E2E Packet Core Architect

The client is looking for a E2E Packet Core Architect (Nokia Equipment) to work a 3 month rolling contract (remote working can be considered).

The proposed scope of work:

• Design Review against latest features available in the Product (CMG and CMM) for recovery
• Proposal of Enhancements and optimizations focusing on the following areas: Features to be enabled that are not in use in today’s network (ICR, UE context redundancy on AMF)
• Cluster Topology enhancements (smaller clusters?)

Second Round discussion:

• Resilience / redundancy principles related to timers and configurations, traffic steering, load balancing, IP Pool management etc.
• Recommendations on site design/topology, on how the capacity and services will be distributed for services like FWA, Mobile broadband, IoT etc.
• Propose vEPC evolution based on features, roadmap—to be able to increase scale and availability for different traffic profiles/services.
• Consider enterprise requirements, and evolution of solutions like local break out.
• Handling of APNs for enterprises.
• IoT capacity and evolution.

Further points to discuss:

• Follow up on proposed updates in the scope, resource availability and timing
• Formulate key questions to address in the study—covering design questions and network evolution
• Identify key stakeholders and involvement—specially product line (Nokia), and development/architecture strategy (CSP)
• Identify adjacent topics to incorporate in the analysis(User plane edge, Core as a service, FWA, Enterprise use cases etc.)

Please note:

• The customer is based in Sweden and you would be required to attend customer meeting if requested. Predicted 1 trip per month. All travel expense would be reimbursed.
• Due to the urgency we can only consider EU passport holders.