Principal 5G RAN Service Performance Engineer

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

We promise our customers the most reliable coverage across the country, and you’ll make sure we deliver on that promise. You’ll be a technical leader and authority in network performance for a large geographic area, proactively identifying new ways to improve speed and quality, and helping to resolve our most complex problems. We’ve got a growing customer base using more devices every day, and their expectations are high—you’ll play a key role in making sure they’re never disappointed.

The engineer is ideally located within the footprint of existing Verizon Ericsson coverage. The Post-GA Centralized Service Performance team is a team with an often changing and wide range of responsibilities and opportunities. Our primary mission is to assist sub-markets in network optimization by leveraging the work of multiple sub-markets, communicating and assisting in investigations, and investigating/escalating multi-sub-market issues. The responsibilities for this role include both national and Ericsson-specific items. They include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provide CBRS and LAA performance guidance (National).
• Direct and design eNodeB, gNodeB parameter trials, analyze nationwide adoption by all sub-markets.
• Help sub-markets monitor their adoption of key recommendations and initiatives.
• Document key knowledge in the shared environment of gSuites, NCT, and Slack.
• Develop and support VSON algorithms.
• Prepare sub-markets for upcoming eNodeB SW releases or any other upcoming activity that may result in KPI impact.
• Train sub-market engineers on new functionalities and technologies (e.g. Nationwide 5G, Midband and SA 5G, Dedicated NR, etc).
• Analyze 3rd party drive results, identify trends, and make recommendations as needed.

***This role can be located out of any US based Verizon hub locations.***

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

What we’re looking for...

You’re a technical expert and a self-starter who encourages team members and business partners to exceed expectations. You constantly see through the eyes of a customer, and you bring that perspective to everything you do. Your natural curiosity drives you to track down problems and collaborate with others to develop solutions.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Willingness to travel.

Even better if you have:

• An engineering degree.
• Strong and proven presentation and verbal communication skills.
• Capability to communicate to large (100+) audiences via periodic conference calls.
• Expertise in 5G NW, UWB, and C-band.
• Expertise in LTE, VoLTE, and 5Gfunctionality and messaging (RRC setup, handover, carrier aggregation).
• Expertise on LTE advanced functions and what it takes to get to 1Gbps DL speeds.
• Proficiency in all of RTT, ALPT, ELPT, NCWS, DMAT, TrueCall.
• Strong relationships with at least one submarket Ericsson SP team.
• Expertise in Ericsson RAN equipment and database parameters.
• Expertise in Ericsson RAN O&M interface.
• Existing strong relationship with any of the Centralized Service Performance team.
• Strong relationships with Centralized Service Performance teams, Maintenance Engineering team, planning team, and/or VSON team.
• Ability and willingness to teach a large or small audience.
• Capability to listen to different viewpoints and look at data to come to unbiased conclusions on recommendations.
• Out-of-the-box thinker, challenging the status quo (parameters, design).
• Supporter of automation. Ideally some automation background like a scripting language, Excel macros, or Tableau.
• Ability to lead RAN issue investigations and bring in and direct resources (local team, HQ, vendors) as needed.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

Verizon requires new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Verizon provides reasonable accommodations consistent with legal requirements (e.g., for medical or religious reasons).