Senior Charging System Support Engineer

To empower our customers, MATRIXX is creating new ways to unlock value by delivering the industry's best monetization solution. Powered by our cloud native Digital Commerce Platform, service providers can take advantage of new commercial, customer and operational opportunities, transforming their businesses along the way. Empowered by our team’s unyielding commitment and relentless drive, we are building a global army of raving fans helping us transform the industry. With a culture that values people as the essential foundation of our success, we are committed to working together to charge up 5G.

Based in Dubai, and reporting to the Regional Support Manager, the Senior Telco BSS Support Engineer will support all aspects of MATRIXX Software Applications at a Tier 1Telecoms Provider. Your responsibilities will require extensive and proactive collaboration with internal and external stakeholders as part of a dedicated team.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively with MATRIXX’s Engineering and Professional Services teams with the goal of becoming a MATRIXX software certified product expert.  Your responsibilities will require you to take ownership of complex customer reported issues, and to assist with all aspects the enhanced support service delivery.

This position is ideal for a candidate looking for a fast paced, dynamic work environment with the personal connection and flexibility of working for a start-up company with its headquarters located in Silicon Valley.  What You Will Do:     

  • Provide local support, under stringent SLA, of the MATRIXX platform.
  • Assist in deployment and operational support activities.
  • Establish and maintain a highly professional and ‘trusted advisor’ position, while displaying sensitivity to all aspects of the customer relationship.
  • Identify, communicate and drive improvement initiatives for the processes and tools relating to your role.
  • Monitor mobile technology and industry developments to ensure your knowledge remains current.
  • Create and perform production operational tasks, MOP (Method of Procedure) execution and provide guidance on best practice to wider team regarding platform operation.
  • Perform Business-As-Usual (BAU) type pricing configuration change on the OCS, test and verify changes and support the deployment of the updates into the production environment.
  • Follow customer and vendor MOP precisely, taking accountability for documentation and audit compliance.
  • Undertake BAU type application configuration changes (both functional and non-functional) and support the process of verification of such in a test, development and pre-production environment.
  • Limited out of hours support work on scheduled activities and high severity production issues/incidents.

What You Will Bring: 

  • 5+ years’ experience working in a Support or Services role in the Telco environment.
  • Technical expertise in:
    • Applications and Systems (Intelligent Networks, Online/Converged Charging, Billing, PCRF).
    • Networking protocols (SS7, MAP, INAP, CAP, DIAMETER, 5G, Sy/Gx).
    • Operating Systems (Redhat Enterprise Linux).
  • Excellent written, verbal and inter-personal communication skills.
  • Enjoy the stimulation of meeting technical challenges with the ability to make timely, sound decisions.
  • Be self-motivated and able to work under pressure.
  • A BS degree or equivalent technical / science-based qualification

The Extras:

  • Skills in one or more of the following:
    • Cloud/Virtualisation (VMware, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes/Docker, Openshift, KVM)
    • Programming Concepts (Java, C++)
    • Scripting languages (Python, Go,Perl, BASH)
    • MongoDB
    • Apache Kafka and Apache ActiveMQ
    • Monitoring Applications, Visualization and Protocols (Prometheus/Grafana/PRTG/SNMP/JMX)
    • Web Service Protocols (SOAP, REST)
    • OCS/Billing System pricing configuration
    • COTS application configuration life-cycle management
    • SQL language (mainly query/reporting) good working knowledge

What you will experience:

  • Helping us deliver on our north star
  • Making an impact, innovating, and disrupting an industry
  • Working on complex and challenging problems.
  • Collaborating and learning from exceptional peers and leaders around the world
  • Contributing to making our customers into raving fans
  • Being part of a culture that thrives on open communication, transparency, and succeeding together