Beijing/shanghai/others

 

Company is a world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and services to mobile and fixed network operators. Over 1,000 networks in more than 180 countries use Company equipment, and more than 40 percent of the world's mobile traffic passes through Company networks. Using innovation to empower people, business and society, we are working towards the Networked Society, in which everything that can benefit from a connection will have one. At Company, we apply our innovation to market-based solutions that empower people and society to help shape a more sustainable world.

We are truly a global company, working across borders in 175 countries, offering a diverse, performance-driven culture and an innovative and engaging environment where employees enhance their potential everyday. Our employees live our vision, core values and guiding principles. They share a passion to win and a high responsiveness to customer needs that in turn makes us a desirable partner to our clients. To ensure professional growth, Company offers a stimulating work experience, continuous learning and growth opportunities that allow you to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to reach your career goals.

Job Summary or Purpose: 

 

Major operators in Northeast Asia are looking to save cost and generate revenues by moving their own infrastructure onto virtualized cloud platforms and by providing subscribers with cloud services. The Solution Architect – Cloud Management will be part of our dedicated cloud solution team towards these customers. The role is to bring in-depth knowledge and experience and to be able to confidently discuss with and lead the customer’s management and technical staff on all topics relating to cloud management & operation, in particular relating to operators challenges in manage & maintain their cloud platform & virtualization resources. The role also includes being able to analyze customer requirements, to build solutions using both Company and 3PP products, and to drive the project in a consultative selling way of working.

 

• Responsible for short and long-term profitable business for Company by being part of or work closely with the sales team (Core 3) to translate the customer needs, and technology opportunities into detailed technical offering, solutions and proposals.

• Responsible for analyzing, designing and developing commercially viable end-to-end technical cloud management solutions (e.g.: Virtual Infrastructure Management, Virtual Data Center Management, Virtual Application Management) for the customers.

• Responsible for helping the customer build their technical strategy toward cloud management evolution, regarding relevant business impact, including business process impact, service flow & functionality impact, as well as security impact.

• Responsible for developing Cloud management business plans, and output deliverables.(eg: Suggestion on business flow & organization impact)

 

Job Tasks:

• Conduct in-depth discussions with customers regarding strategy and key challenges of cloud system deployment, management & operation

• Develop & perform technical presentations and workshops in cloud management/virtualization platform operation related topics

• Support RFx in cloud management, virtualization resource allocation, cloud operation/SLA related tendering

• Analyze customer technology, business plan, business environment & requirements with regards to cloud and virtualization management, focus on customer improvement areas and challenges related to virtualization and business (eg: NFV, SDN, Cloud service orchestration & automation, service SLA definition etc)

• Contribute to business case modeling activities for cloud, including concepts such as resource utilization, scaling out and OPEX benefits of automation.

• Build solutions based on Company Cloud management products in combination with commercially available 3PP

• Monitor or be part of R&D activities in cloud management, and provide product feedback to Product Line

• Lead prototype and demo development teams, provide input and requirements and perform cloud management demos in front of customer

• Provide insight on how new trends will affect customer/Company business, current and future technology & operations, especially in telecom domain

 

COMPANY WIDE - FUNCTIONAL AND OTHER COMPETENCES

• Knowledge of Company cloud related portfolio and offering (ECS/ECM/EVA/etc) will be a plus

• Knowledge of 3GPP core standards and interfaces will be a plus

• Knowledge of Company, ex-Telcordia & ex-ConceptWave OSS  products will be a plus

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

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• MA or BA degree in CS, EE, or a related field

• At least 10 years of experience in interaction with senior IT managers and C-level executives and facilitating clients in IT management settings; At least 8 years of experience in consulting in an ICT environment for OSS/BSS, Virtualization & Cloud services, Telecom industry related would be a plus.

• Vendor experience with Dell, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, HP & IBM regarding cloud management & hypervisor, also has a fundamental understanding of the virtualization management business drivers.

• Expertise of VMware NSX, vCloud Suite & Redhat CloudForms would be a strong advantage.

• Expertise of mainstream Cloud Management solution suite (power cloud, would be a plus

• Expertise in Cloud management for multiple platform & apps, including Software Defined Networks (SDN), Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC), Network Function Virtualization (NFV).

• Good understanding of Data Center transformation and IT automation, Security & process. Knowledge of integration of Virtualization management & legacy OSS/BSS system could be a great advantage.

• Experience and in depth understanding on the management and execution of projects for application development and migration for legacy IT system evolve to Cloud management platform

•  Hands-on skill of cloud management system design, development & administration, also with deep understanding of software life cycle management (S-LCM), Cloud applications and their key characteristics.

• Deep understanding of various Cloud models (Public cloud, Private Cloud, Telecom Cloud) in at least one aspect of the Cloud or a general but “clear” understanding of the Cloud principles.

• Demonstrated proven track record with the will and ability to adopt and learn new technologies and business models.

• Proven track record of cross organization collaboration in creation of IT and Enterprise solutions, cloud management specific objects would be preferred.

• Detailed understanding of the cloud industry and market, familiar with IaaS, PaaS & SaaS, terms like scale-out, scale-up, scale-in, automation, cloud management.

• Expertise in web application design and experience on open source products is a plus

• Readiness to travel up to 75% annually

• English: Fluent

 

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• Ability to work with uncertainties and to quickly adapt to changing requirements

• Ability to quickly learn new technology areas or do research on detailed technical topics

• Ability to show technical competence and handle difficult questions in front of customer technical staff

• Entrepreneurial & Commercial Thinking

• Persuading & Influencing

• Business case experience and analytical mindset

• Relating & Networking

• Delivering Results & Meeting Customer Expectations

• Adapting & Responding to Change

• Can operate either as a team member or team leader on initiatives, acting as a coach for peers, new hires and initiative participants from other areas in the organization.

Communicates effectively with leadership and team members to define project scope of work and outputs and phased approaches to achieving client's business objectives.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS, PHYSICAL DEMANDS, REGION / LOCAL SPECIFICATIONS (BLANK FOR GLOBAL TEMPLATES)

• Multi Language speaker (English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean) will be a plus.