Platform Transport Engineer

About Altiostar (A Rakuten Symphony Company):

Altiostar (now part of Rakuten Symphony) is the mobile broadband industry's first provider of Virtual RAN (vRAN) with Ethernet front haul, for software-intensive LTE eNodeB and NR gNodeB. Our unique LTE eNodeB and 5G gNB are designed to improve quality of experience, enhance spectral efficiency, and significantly reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Our product is designed with leading edge hardware & software technologies. We have a team of passionate professionals who understand mobile network operator's requirements & vision. Our objective is to provide mobile network operators with the equipment required to deploy and expand their LTE and 5G networks quickly and efficiently in the most feature rich and cost-effective way.

Location: Bangalore, India

Experience - 2 to 20 Years

Summary: Altiostar is searching for a passionate, technology personality to drive our innovative LTE OpenvRAN, 5G vRAN product portfolio and software roadmaps.

Job responsibilities:

• Member of the Altiostar Platform Transport team which is responsible for design, development and testing of features relating to transport layers of our vRAN Portfolio
• Review and improve the quality and test coverage of existing Software
• Involve in Understanding Customer requirement and converting the same into feature design for our vRAN portfolio
• Contribute to reviews of transport architecture, platform/service designs, and review of source code.
• Working closely with the QA and Field engineer to root cause issues seen in QA testing and Field deployments

Job requirement:

• Worked on C/C++ for minimum 3-8 years.
• Worked on multi-threading and multi-processing architecture in Linux Platform
• Worked on IKE daemon (E.g strongswan) configuration to support different network topologies and authentication methods
• Worked on user plane IP Stack (DPDK/VPP/OVS) implementation
• Worked on one or more networking protocols: IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP, SCTP, TWAMP
• Required knowledge of Security Protocols IPsec/ESP/AH/TLS/SSH/SCP Protocols
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.
• Exposure to cloud native security best practices in private and public clouds
• Advantageous if below knowledge is there
• Understands 3G/4G/5G RAN architecture
• Understands PKI and any one PKI Protocol call flow (EST, CMP, SCEP)
• Virtualized Network Function and/or Containerized Network Function
• Automation and Scripting Knowledge (E.g. Python)
• Hands on development experience in Linux environment
• High degree of proficiency in programming methodologies, design patterns, algorithms and data structures

Education and Experience:

Master's or Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science or Software Technology or equivalent education

Altiostar is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability, veteran status and any other protected characteristics.