Apertio

Position located in: Apertio/Nokia Siemens Networks, Emersons Green, Bristol.
Position reporting to: NDS Sustaining Manager

Overall Objective:

Apertio One-NDS is the product that underpins the whole Apertio-One product suite. It is a highly robust open standards directory that sits at the heart of the network to create a single, centralised subscriber repository.

We are looking for software engineers to join the NDS engineering team in Bristol. A number of roles are available at different levels of experience. It is likely that successful candidates will have experience of working on large software development or sustaining projects, preferably in a telecoms, database development or enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provision of a variety of support and development services for a complex, mission critical software product. External customers include a range of mobile, fixed and convergent network operators, and also a variety of telecommunications equipment manufacturers and systems integrators. Internal customers include the operational support team, support consultants, test teams, product managers, and software development teams within engineering.
• Act as a primary source of knowledge about the product architecture, implementation and usage.
• Troubleshooting of customer problems
• Development of both routine and emergency support patches.
• Development and execution of system tests.
• Development of product enhancements aimed at improved features, improved reliability, supportability and ease of use.

Person Specification:

No mandatory technical requirements but particularly suitable skills are:

• C Programming experience,
• Software development on Unix/Linux OS,
• Database Experience, especially X.500, Directories, DAP and LDAP,
• Software Architectures, especially experience of database applications.
• knowledge of 'real-time' computing
• inter-process communication, TCP/IP communication
• Unix shell scripting
• Focused, independent thinkers, self-starting team-players would be the ideal applicants.

Key Skills:

• Software product support
• Strong problem solving skills
• C and Unix
• Real-time or complex software product development
• X.500 and LDAP
• For more senior roles, experience of planning work and managing staff.
• We would expect the successful candidate to demonstrate ability in several of these areas.
• Personal qualities sought include:
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Ability to communicate with people clearly.
• Experience of working with an internationally based company
• Ability to see and comprehend the big picture
• Proactive, Methodical, Organized, Enthusiast, Eager to learn, Proud of own work.
• For more senior roles, ability to lead and mentor others

Benefits Package

• Pay scale is competitive and consistent with roles and responsibility depending on skills and experience
• NSN offers a competitive benefits package

Opportunities resulting from working with a growing company:

• More responsibility
• Learn new technologies
• Being able to make difference to company and its customers
• Travel

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