IoT Core Services Engineer

What you’ll do

By connecting people, places and things, Vodafone IoT helps organisations succeed in a digital world. With our expertise in connectivity, our leading IoT platform and our global scale, we can deliver the results our customers need to progress and thrive. We are helping businesses of all sizes and sectors connect for a better future.

The Vodafone Internet of Things (IoT) suite of products and services are designed specifically to meet the needs of new and evolving business verticals, its connection base has grown 20 % per YoY to reach more than 180 million connections at the end of financial year 2023. Vodafone IoT is a leader in the IoT Connectivity Gartner Magic quadrant and has been for 10 consecutive years. To fulfil the Technology requirements of IoT, Vodafone has developed its own IoT Connectivity Management Platform to target the key strategic growth opportunity specifically to meet the needs of Global IoT customers.

The successful candidate will be part of an engineering team responsible for design, integration and optimisation of IoT Charging solutions. The main functions will be related to improving and evolving the Online Charging Service delivered to Vodafone IoT IITC customers, assuring the proper dimensioning for the IoT platforms, guaranteeing capacity is used efficiently and new services and capabilities are delivered efficiently in time.

Some of the accountabilities include:

• Design, Drive and Deliver the Convergent Charging Service (CCS) on Cloud Transformation program in the Market(s), leading CCS to a Cloud, 5G ready system.
• Design and Engineer the solution based on Cloud technologies, such as Containers, Open-Source components (Elasticsearch, Grafana, Kibana, Kafka), CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab, JMeter).
• Design and Engineer the software for complying with state-of-the-art Cyber Security guidelines and requirements
• Design and Develop backend applications using technologies like JAVA, Python, bash, Groovy, etc.
• Own solution HLD and LLD including IP design. Choose technologies and standards used for the underlying capabilities. Determines dimensioning and configuration data per node. Ensures security requirements are embedded in the design.
• Drive as Technical Lead the delivery projects ensuring a proper coordination of all involved domains (e.g., Infrastructure, Core Network, Operating Support Systems, Provisioning)
• Analyse, together with the business demand areas, the needs, requirements and expectations for the definition and implementation of the different functionalities of the CCS projects and commercial products

Who you are

• Higher education in Computer Science or similar areas
• Knowledge in charging applications
• Experience in SOAP, Diameter, Restful API appreciated
• Knowledge in DevOps process and tools (Harbor, Helm, Jenkins, GitLab, JMeter)
• Experience designing virtualised or cloud architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP), cloud-native containerised microservices and driven by open APIs and Kubernetes
• Technical expertise on IT stack (backend and frontend) and BSS desirable
• Fluent in English
• Analytical ability, creativity and problem-solving

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.

What's in it for you

We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you. There are lots of ways we support this, including hybrid working and generous parental leave. You'll also get four Spirit Days a year to focus on your personal development and wellbeing, plus a host of other great benefits too.

Who we are

You may have already heard of Vodafone - We're a leading Telecommunications company in Europe and Africa. But what you might not know is that we are continuously investing in new technologies to improve the lives of millions of customers, businesses and people around the world, creating a better future for everyone.

As part of our global family, whether that's Vodafone, Vodacom or _VOIS, you'll feel a sense of pride and purpose as you contribute to our culture of innovation. We pursue equality of opportunity and inclusion for all candidates through our employment policies and practices. We recognise and celebrate the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our workspace and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination especially related to but not limited to race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation, pregnancy, ethnicity, disability, religion, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, social origin, cultural background, social, or marital status.

Together we can.