Consultant, Solution Architecture

**Since 1992, Ciena has been driven by a relentless pursuit of network innovation. We believe in a network that grows smarter, more agile, and more responsive every day. This means that when you digitally interact in your world - picking up the phone, streaming video, texting a friend or loved one - your interactions are being enabled by Ciena technologies. Ciena makes your social / entertainment / business existence REAL.**
**What you will do as a Blue Planet Inventory Software Developer?**
Your primary activities shall include:
- Design Blue Planet solutions with the Delivery Architect and Project team in creating network, service topology and visualizations for telecommunication/networking technologies
- Participate and support customer discussions to understand requirements, clarifications for implementation and conduct user acceptance.
- Write and maintain solution documentation
- Implement Project solutions in Java, Spring, Neo4J, JSON, REST, JUnit, Angular, Drools
- Write and optimize database (Neo4J, SQL) queries and procedures
- Write and support configuration management scripts for Blue Planet’s CI/CD processes
- Create device and service models for telecommunication/networking technologies such as DWDM/OTN, SONET, MPLS, GPON, FTTH, etc.
- Continually train in new technologies and Blue Planet products
- Should be able to manage infrastructure automation using terraform and integrate it into the deployment pipeline.
**Required Skills and Experience**:
- Domain: OSS, Inventory, COTS product (Amdocs Cramer/Granite/Netcracker) domain experience.
- Technologies: Java/J2EE, REST, JSON, Angular 2+, AWS/RHEL
- Database: Neo4j (graph DB), SQL DB
- Telecommunication technology background (SONET, HFC, Wireless, DWDM, Ethernet, 5G) and how these technologies are represented in OSS Inventory and Automation systems
- Background in implementing enterprise-level software solutions for mission-critical OSS systems.
- Experience in vendor Professional Service organizations working on fast-paced projects
- Software Development Lifecycle: Waterfall, and Agile, Oracle Unified Method (OUM)
**Additional Skills and Experience**:
- ** Backend development frameworks/libraries**:Maven, Spring Data/Security/MVC
- ** Backend testing frameworks/libraries**:Junit, SoapUI, Postman, Cucumber
- ** Frontend programming/markup languages**:Typescript/Javascript, html, css
- ** Frontend development frameworks/libraries**:Angular 2+, React, Node.js/npm, D3.js, gulp
- ** DB**:Neo4j (graph DB), Oracle DB, PostgreSQL,
- ** Other Skills**:AWS Cloud, CI/CD, ElasticSearch, drools, Kafka integration, ReST (on Spring MVC), SSO (LDAP, Reverse Proxy, OAuth2), Camunda / BPMN / OSM / Workflow
- ** Programming theory**:design patterns, data structures, relational and graph database
- ** Tools**:EKS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Git, IntelliJ, MS Visual Studio, Microsoft SSMS
**Helpful Certifications**:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional AWS Certified Security - Specialty AWS Certified Developer - Associate AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
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