OSS​/BSS; Blue Planet - Senior

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The telecommunications industry is changing rapidly with shorter technology cycles, increased capital expenditure requirements, digitization and increasing customer expectations from operators. All of this causes pressure on margins & cash flow requiring operators to transform the way they operate, automating and digitizing their processes, upgrading their technology to leverage the power of cloud, AI and other cutting‑edge developments.

As the telecommunications industry evolves, we will work with them to help them transform. You will be working on projects across the Americas, EMEIA and APAC and serving the entire telecommunications spectrum including operators, network equipment providers, system integrators, cloud vendors and specialized tool providers.

In this role, as a senior consultant in GDS Consulting, you will lead the implementation of Ciena/ Blue Planet products and integration with the telecommunications operators’ Operations Support Systems (OSS). You will be responsible for ensuring that a quality, integrated software solution is delivered in a timely manner, at budget, and to our client's satisfaction.

• Delivery and Product implementation, configuration, extensions, and integrations for OSS systems involving Ciena Blue Planet’s suite of products.
• Actively drive & participate in Business Analysis and requirements gathering, Design, Development, Testing, Deployment, Data Migration and Support
• You will leverage your expertise in Ciena Blue Planet’s Assurance suite of products such as Unified Assurance and Analytics (UAA) to build service lifecycle automation related capabilities for telcos by developing and configuring resource adapters, correlation rules, KPIs and analytics dashboards.
• Assist in the development and implementation of AI models and systems, leveraging techniques such as Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI.
• You will develop system and process requirements.
• You will map OSS software capabilities to those needs and build consensus around the solution, proposes technical solutions to system requirements.
• You will develop applicable process and system change documentation;
  Develop and distribute project related documentation.
• You will provide oversight on assigned component tasks.
• You will coordinate with regional/global teams on project objectives.
• You build and maintain long-term relationships with senior clients.
• Delivering qualified solutions to meet business objectives, providing focus to ensure scope and objectives are maintained throughout the project and program life cycles ensuring benefits realization.
• Result oriented leadership style, setting achievable goals and leading by example – linking commercial and technical arenas.

• Strong leadership skills, teaming and communications
• Strong drive to excel professionally, and to guide and motivate others.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Dedicated, resourceful and able to work under pressure.

• Consultant with minimum of 5+ Years proven experience and significant knowledge and professionalism gained from years of OSS and Telecommunications products and implementation experience.
• Working knowledge of OSS products and services, specific experience in implementing solutions and in systems integrations.
• Must have experience with Blue Planet Unified Assurance and Analytics (UAA) and other observability tools.
• Conceptual / Practical
  
  Experience:
  
  Fault management, Performance management, NMS, EMS, SIEM, APM, Log Agg tools, Python, Bash, Powershell, REST API, SNMP, Netconf/YANG, SQL, Git, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud VPC, AI/ML
• In-depth knowledge of machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI techniques.
• Preferred…