Core Network Lead, Run Team

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🌐 Spain, United Kingdom, +1 more countries – Remote

🇪🇸 Spain – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote

💵 €76.8k - €115.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

✨ Team Lead

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Airalo

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51 - 200 employees

📡 Telecommunications

✈️ Travel

Telecommunications • Technology • Travel

Airalo is the world's first eSIM store that provides digital SIM cards (eSIMs) to travelers in over 200 countries and regions globally. The company offers an innovative solution to avoid high roaming charges by allowing users to purchase and activate eSIMs via its app, ensuring instant connectivity without the need for physical SIM cards. Airalo caters to various travelers by providing local, regional, and global eSIMs with transparent, prepaid pricing plans, supported by 24/7 customer service. The platform also supports partnership through APIs and offers incentives such as referral credits. Airalo represents a modern approach to global mobile connectivity, making it an essential tool for frequent travelers.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor and manage a team of seven engineers, QA specialists and Site Reliability Engineers across the Mobile Core Network lifecycle • Manage sprint and capacity planning, prioritisation, stakeholder communication, 1-to-1 meetings, performance reviews and career growth • Establish engineering best practices, automated testing strategy and technical handover standards • Operate and manage the mobile core across CNFs and VNFs, including HSS/HLR, packet core, Diameter, SS7, DNS, GTP, voice and messaging platforms • Ensure end-to-end service readiness for data, voice and SMS with NEPs, IPX/GRX partners, IaaS partners, Managed Service and SaaS providers • Own Mobile Core Network performance against 99.98% annual service uptime • Define and report health KPIs including availability, attach and session success rates, call and SMS success rates, latency, packet loss and utilisation • Support observability, monitoring, proactive alerting, geo-redundant design, capacity forecasting, failover testing, post-incident reviews and problem management • Own configuration management, version control, change control, automated deployment and rollback, and configuration drift detection • Work with the Build Team to bring CNF, VNF, Managed Service and partner SaaS systems into live operation • Define operational readiness and handover criteria and accept systems into the Run Team • Ensure the Run Team is trained, documented and equipped to operate new systems safely

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years hands-on in mobile core networks • 2+ years leading a team of engineers and/or QA specialists in an agile or delivery-focused environment • Strong working knowledge of packet core and voice core, including HSS/HLR, policy and charging, VoLTE and legacy circuit-switched voice • Expertise across Diameter, SS7 and SIP signalling • Experience with messaging architecture and SMS routing, including interworking with other operators • Strong delivery mindset across multiple concurrent rollout streams • Clear communication and ability to produce handover-quality documentation • English communication proficiency in meetings and asynchronously • Nice to have: CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes or automated signalling test frameworks • Nice to have: experience with Nokia, Ericsson, Mavenir, Oracle Communications, Cisco, Summa Networks, NetNumber or XIUS • Nice to have: cloud-native or virtualised network functions on AWS, Azure, GCP or private cloud • Degree in telecommunications engineering, computer science, electrical engineering or similar is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work • Full-time, permanent contract • Localized compensation bands based on location • Compensation growth room within the salary band • Potential to discuss compensation above the band in exceptional cases • Background checks only with prior consent and as permitted by applicable law • Reasonable accommodations throughout the interview process • Equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity & inclusion

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