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We are currently looking for a highly motivated Technical Services Engineer to join our Customer Services team in Basingstoke. If you want to be a part of our growing company that is driven by innovation and is focused on building a future together with our employees, consider applying.
The Technical Services Engineer will be responsible for supporting field engagement activities including technical presentations, pre- and post-sales visits, assisting with lab and field trials, solution integration, deployments & upgrades, training and providing general customer support as needed.
The successful candidate will develop a full understanding of Adtran’s World Leading Fibre Access product range including OLT, ONT, SDGs, in home WiFi solutions and software driven management, monitoring and orchestration systems.
Knowledge of Core Networks and WDM systems will also be required.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Customer homologations, POC, advanced demo, Trials
- Scope and run Customer trials and homologation tests with consulting product experts.
- Deliverables: Test cases documentation and validation report.
- Network design documentation
- Create the detailed low level system design based on actual site and network conditions provided in the Customer Information Questionnaire.
- Final Network Design - confirmed network design along with the required equipment settings for network installation.
- On site or remote Assistance for Installation and Commissioning on all product lines
- Supervise Technical Services staff and external contractors during on-site activities with customers, such as Installation and Commissioning, equipment upgrades and fault investigations.
- Be the technical lead on certain projects.
- Deliverables: Acceptance reports as defined in the service request.
- Network upgrade, network audit
- Build upgrade plan and run complete network audit : OLT-ONT-SDG & MCP.
- Deliverables: upgrade path with steps and timeline, report and analysis of a network audit – per site and overall status.
- Customers workshops and trainings
- Be able to deliver technical training on Adtran products and technologies with the help of product experts to Customers and other technical support staff. Including enabling on new features.
- Create documentation and other tools to proactively educate channels and end users about potentially difficult issues prior to their becoming problems.
- Provide technical and sales support including demonstrations, evaluations, and training for accounts in assigned territory and perform technical presentations for customers, partners, and prospects.
- Prepare and execute acceptance testing as well as lab & field trials
- Represents voice of Customers and Adtran Service Team, actively providing feedback about products usability and quality to Adtran R&D, Test and Quality departments
- On site, level 3 support outside of normal business hours following escalation from Customers
Requirements:
- Proven work experience as a Technical Service Engineer in the Fibre Access environment.
- Knowledge of SaaS solution.
- Comprehensive Ethernet and IP knowledge and hands-on experience. Knowledge of routing protocols beneficial. (e.g. Juniper/Cisco experience)
- Provisioning and orchestration software (incl. protocols such as NetConf, REST and experience in JSON).
- Linux, Virtualisation technologies, Scripting/Programming (Python) knowledge and practical experience.
- Ability to develop solutions hand in hand with customers and partners, convince customers of our solution benefits.
- Attitude of proactively getting things done, working on their own initiative.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Excellent customer interfacing skills
Scope of employment
- Fulltime / Permanent
- Readiness to regularly travel to customers within the UK
- Prepared to do flexible working hours including some out of hours working
- DBS check will be required (Adtran to arrange)
Primary location of job
- Office based (Adtran Basingstoke)
Compensation
- Base salary
- Car Allowance
- Compensation for out of hours activities
Benefits
- 25 days holiday + public holidays
- Company pension scheme (salary sacrifice)
- Income protection insurance to cover serious illness
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance
- Employee assistance helpline
- Free onsite parking
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What We Do
ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) is defining the future network with innovative next-generation solutions that enable telecommunication service providers to deliver voice, data and video services to homes and businesses. Our vision is to enable a fully connected world where the power to communicate is available to everyone, everywhere.
ADTRAN was founded in 1985 in Huntsville, AL. The corporate headquarters remains in Huntsville with additional R&D centers in Germany and India and sales offices located throughout the world. Innovation has been at the heart of the company since its inception and is recognized through our large portfolio of patents that is more than 700 strong.
Our employees, more than 2,000 strong, come to work each day searching for ways to bring the world together through improved communication. We seek the best and brightest minds that bring integrity, a spirit of entrepreneurism, creative problem solving, and a passion for their work.
