Orange France Telecom San Francisco/South San Francisco, CADescription
Job Responsibilities
The candidate is responsible for the analysis and evaluation of advanced networking products, services and architecture. The Product Manager will be required to develop high level analysis and detailed description of network architectures and system components. The candidate is expected to contribute to the definition of requirements for the network architecture infrastructure and its evolution, propose new services, influence the design and demonstrate the technical and economic relevance of specific architectural principles. The candidate will also be responsible for the interaction with local external parties to build technical and business initiatives and partnerships, as well to interact with internal Orange group teams based abroad. The candidate should have experience in network equipment development and deployment in Telco and ISPs network architecture.
Main tasks:
â?¢ research and evaluate innovative products, services and architectures meeting stringent flexibility, resiliency, scalability, quality, energy-efficiency and other requirements of large, critical network infrastructures;
â?¢ drive the design and development of demonstrators and Proofs of Concept (PoC) in an international multi-lab setting, to conceive, design and set up innovation test beds;
â?¢ follow-through innovation cycle (feasibility study, design, develop, experiment, validate).
â?¢ conceive, design and set up innovation test beds;
â?¢ being strongly entrenched in the local ecosystem innovation fabric, vendor and network equipment manufacturers community, universities, academic labs to build technical and business-based multiple innovation initiatives from co-development to strategic-based partnerships.
â?¢ promote innovative service, products and network architectures to management and executive-level audiences;
â?¢ show fluency and ability to prepare detailed reports, appealing presentations, white papers;
â?¢ establish effective working relationships with Orange R&D labs and business units to evangelize and get technical and business validation of the proposed innovation, which may imply trips to France for short periods of time.
Job Requirements:
â?¢ Bachelor degree in EE or CS required. Master degree in EE or CS preferred. MBA is a plus.
â?¢ Experience in network product development five phases' cycle, specification, design, development, testing and maintenance.
â?¢ Experience in designing, engineering, and/or deploying network infrastructure with carriers and/or Internet Service Providers.
â?¢ Experience in network equipment hardware and software architecture.
â?¢ Experience in design and development of network/telecom software.
â?¢ Experience in business analysis and models applied to Telco network infrastructure and services.
â?¢ Confortable in Linux/Unix/Solaris environnent.
â?¢ Strong knowledge of any one of core routing protocols (OSPF, ISIS, BGP, PIM-SM, MPLS, QoS, etc.); and any one of access protocols like PPP, PPPoE, L2TP, DHCP, etc.
â?¢ Knowledge of Internet architecture governance and economic organization (transport, peering agreements, CDNs, p2p, etc.).
â?¢ Innovation mind-set and outstanding communication skills.
â?¢ Knowledge and/or fluency in French are a strong plus.
â?¢ Self-starter, results-oriented with strong team work attitude.
No relocation package.
Benefits:
M/D/V/STD/LTD/Life/Bonus/401(k)
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Source: Venture Beat