MCX Senior Core Engineer

Position: MCX Senior Core Engineer

Location: Reading and customer offices as required

Salary: On Application

Duration: Ongoing

Hours: Monday–Friday, 9am–5:30pm

Overview of an MCX Senior Core Engineer

As an MCX Senior Core Engineer, you will provide technical expertise across IMS, 4G/5G Core, MCX, VoLTE, LTE and TETRA, supporting complex deployments from design through to operations. You’ll work closely with R&D, customers and partners to deliver secure, reliable mission-critical solutions while ensuring testing, performance and operational requirements are met.

Responsibilities of an MCX Senior Core Engineer

• Provide SME support for defect triage, complex fault investigations and troubleshooting across MCX Core.

• Lead functional, performance and end-to-end testing, including software upgrades and regression testing on VNF/VMware Core solutions.

• Manage test progress, technical reports, trouble tickets and risks, ensuring issues are resolved within agreed SLAs.

• Support MCX Core integrations, providing technical analysis, logs and feedback to customers, partners and third parties.

• Contribute to MCX Core Test Strategies, Test Plans, documentation and the training and development of other engineers.

Key Competencies of an MCX Senior Core Engineer

• Extensive experience across 4G/5G Core, IMS, VoLTE and Mission Critical Voice, Video and Data technologies.

• Strong knowledge of LTE, TETRA, 3GPP, IP networking, routing protocols and end-to-end network troubleshooting.

• Experience with Wireshark, SIP, RTP, RTCP, Diameter, IXIA, Jira and ServiceNow, alongside VMware-based Core deployments.

• Excellent analytical, technical, communication and leadership skills, with an Engineering or equivalent technical degree/experience.

• Awareness of NIST, OWASP, GCF and UK TSA requirements, with willingness to support on-call and travel to customer locations when required.

Benefits:

• Generous holiday entitlement, plus additional birthday leave and bank holidays.

• Staff sales discount, Reward Plus shopping discount, and volunteering days.

• Government pension auto-enrolment and pension contribution from 12 weeks.

• Subsidized staff restaurant, onsite parking, and free shuttle bus service (from Weybridge & Woking Station)

Due to the large volume of applications we receive for each position we will only be able to respond to applications received with the relevant skills. Should you not hear from us within a week, unfortunately on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

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Consultant – Charlie Shepherd