UTMS/LTE support good for the CV?

Kai123

Hello,

There is a NOC Engineer role near me that mainly supports UTMS/LTE. Looking for UTMS jobs, I can find plenty of field jobs but no support roles. It looks like its deep into wireless telecomms. Is this just a fairly small field of telecomms, or is it an up-and-coming thing?

If it would cover RF tech to the point where any additional knowledge of RF would be beneficial (regardless of the role) then I'd jump at it.

In my current job we support Metro Wireless (DOCSIS 2.0) and 100mb dedicated licensed radio (Ceragons, Stratix).

I can figure this out myself but if anyone has experience working supporting UTMS/LTE/ let me know how it is!

networker050184

It's more of a niche field at this time, but I can see it growing as more and more things go wireless. It's not really that big of a transferable skill into the more traditional R&S networking roles though.

SoCalGuy858

Aside from the major wireless carriers themselves, this is huge if you can find an M2M / IoT / telematics-related company. Outside of that arena, I don't see these skills listed much. The cellular-related fields listed above are definitely growing by leaps and bounds, though. If you can get into something of the sort, there's definitely room to move around.

chmod

Kai123 wrote: »

Hello,

There is a NOC Engineer role near me that mainly supports UTMS/LTE. Looking for UTMS jobs, I can find plenty of field jobs but no support roles. It looks like its deep into wireless telecomms. Is this just a fairly small field of telecomms, or is it an up-and-coming thing?

If it would cover RF tech to the point where any additional knowledge of RF would be beneficial (regardless of the role) then I'd jump at it.

In my current job we support Metro Wireless (DOCSIS 2.0) and 100mb dedicated licensed radio (Ceragons, Stratix).

I can figure this out myself but if anyone has experience working supporting UTMS/LTE/ let me know how it is!

I've been on the umts/lte/datacom for many years. I have worked on the deployment of many mobile networks, core network/datacom and also for NGN services. Not much on the access side(wireless BSC/RNC Node B/eNodeB/BTSs and that stuff, RF) but on the other side behind wireless.

Not sure of a noc role as i work on solutions and engineering but you can learn a lot, it is a very specialized field. Is hard to find people with deep knowledge on this type of technologies even for the core side(networking) is hard to find good network engineers.
If you are on the field and become very good and look to work for the vendors or the biggest service providers on very specializaed jobs you can make a lot of money and travel a lot.
Is a very fast growing field, technology changes even faster than on enterprise side and you have to wokr very hard to make things happen but it is a nice field, the only thing is that this is like an island you don't find as much jobs as in help desk or netowrk support for enterprise.

Here you either work for vendors(cisco, alcatel-lucent, huawei, ericsson,) or with the service providers or at least the majority of the jobs are there. There are some consulting companies and also for the goverment, in every country there is goverment entity that regulates telecom services, you can also get a job in those 2 type of companies.

jrcarr2

Kai123 wrote: »

Hello,

There is a NOC Engineer role near me that mainly supports UTMS/LTE. Looking for UTMS jobs, I can find plenty of field jobs but no support roles. It looks like its deep into wireless telecomms. Is this just a fairly small field of telecomms, or is it an up-and-coming thing?

If it would cover RF tech to the point where any additional knowledge of RF would be beneficial (regardless of the role) then I'd jump at it.

In my current job we support Metro Wireless (DOCSIS 2.0) and 100mb dedicated licensed radio (Ceragons, Stratix).

I can figure this out myself but if anyone has experience working supporting UTMS/LTE/ let me know how it is!

I work at a NOC for a wireless carrier. The skills that you are talking about are mainly for support of the wireless network for that carrier but as another person said there are big vendors out there. Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel/Ericsson come to mind.

Future growth will be along voice over LTE services and other services provided through mobile broadband and connected devices. It is certainly growing but I would imagine that the UMTS/LTE knowledge would be more along the lines of Wireless carriers or vendors.

But it will grow, there is a lot of jobs out there supporting the EnodeB to the core network. The flow of LTE and how it works with core network devices, routers etc. In addition any carrier is going to to have people that analyze and work on performance.

In general though you'll have techs at the MTSO or equivalent, techs for the field to service cells, NOC techs, performance techs and engineers, generally people in some sort of implementation role for deployment and developers/techs and engineers for the core network.

The network will still have plenty of routers and traditional networking. There will be stuff like cisco/lucent choke routers, cisco/juniper core routers and any number of other boxes to facilitate the network.