IMS with Oracle PCRF Engineer

Flint is looking for an IMS with Oracle PCRF Engineer to work on a contracting opportunity with one of the main Telco providers in the UK.
This contract is INSIDE IR35 and main locations are Bristol & Newcastle. However, the ideal candidate can be based elsewhere in the country as long as they are happy to occasionally travel to meet with their colleagues in Newcastle for training/team building.
The individuals will be supporting the Oracle PCF platform and therefore require an understanding either of that platform (most desirable) or another PCF/PCRF product/environment.

+ Strong understanding of networking at a Linux Kernel level
+ IP rules, IP routes
+ Usage of tcpdum
Proficient with Shell Scripting

• Able to write scripts


• Able to read scripts written by others


Understanding of Linux package managers

• Yum, Apt


Confident with use of/concepts around: JSON, CURL, API calls

Confident in virtualization & Cloud concepts

Proficient use of OpenStack & Kubernetes

Understanding of Docker

Experience with either:

• Oracle PCF product (ideally confident, but not necessary as long as they have the other skills listed)


• Other PCF/PCRF experience


Understanding of what IMS is and how it works

Confident with MySQL and NDB cluster

Confident with Oracle Linux distro

Proficient use of Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, Prometheus

• PromQL


• Alert Manager


Confident use of ELK stack, specifically Elasticsearch

General understanding of an LTE mobile network and how it works

Understanding of what 5G SA is trying to achieve

Experience with diameter protocols