Background
The world around us is experiencing significant change, the greatest in generations.
At McLaren Applied, we’re accelerating the response to that change. Our vision is that our people and technologies will pioneer a better future.
Our mission is to achieve breakthroughs in performance. We’re at the cutting edge of innovation in industries including automotive transportation and motorsport. We create solutions that drive efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
To deliver reliable connectivity solutions for transportation and insightful analytics and monitoring of transport fleets. By applying our expertise, we deliver real benefits and pioneer a better future.
Our Team
Our teams work collaboratively to solve challenging connectivity problems. Our teams include: Data Scientists, Software Engineers, Test Engineers, System Reliability Engineers, Systems Engineers, Hardware Engineers and Mechanical Engineers.
The Role
As a hands-on Senior Communications System Engineer you will take accountability for the end-to-end Systems Engineering lifecycle including (live) operational support of complex bids, proposals and customer projects (for example, passenger WiFi).
This will involve technical leadership from requirements management, planning, design and deployment through to test, commissioning and support.
You will be a key contributor to the product roadmap including product architecture, tools, and suggest future market requirements. You will be the customers’ single point of contact for specific technical work packages.
You will take responsibility for the proactive and reactive support/maintenance of deployments within Europe, ensuring they are consistent and repeatable as the products continue to evolve.
You will engage in ITIL v4 Incident/Problem/Change Management to restore normal service, comply with applicable SLAs while triggering product improvements, fixes and new features.
Continuous improvement and knowledge management is at the core of this role. You will be expected to advocate for architectural change and repeatable documented working practices. You will mentor and train other Engineers where required.
As part of the Systems Engineering community, you will champion good practice, rigour and cross-functional engagement with both Engineering and non-Engineering stakeholders.
Minimum
We are looking for an applicant who has:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other highly quantitative field (or equivalent experience).
- Demonstrable experience of technical leadership with a proactive, high-energy, can-do attitude.
- Ability to retain integrity and professionalism in high pressure situations.
- Substantial end to end LAN/WAN/IP networking experience including considerations for monitoring, cyber security and support handover.
- Significant experience designing, deploying, verifying and maintaining multidisciplinary communication systems with hardware, embedded software, application software and mechanical interfaces.
- Experience of working with Linux servers (preferably Debian derived), including set-up and administration of common services, routing and IP
- Relevant experience with programming languages including Python and Bash, including working with version control tools such as Git
- A strong background in requirements capture and management processes.
- A rich competency in testing & validation of distributed electronic and software systems.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and excellent technical knowledge. Able to quickly build rapport with peers and stakeholders. Able to tactfully challenge without alienating.
- Strong analytical and numerical skills with the ability to analyse large datasets.
- Capability to manually handle equipment up to 10kg in weight.
Desirable & Development Areas
Some of the below would be beneficial to the applicant, but opportunities to develop in these areas will also be provided:
- Chartership with relevant professional body or aspirations thereto.
- Professional qualifications in communications systems (e.g. CCNA).
- Requirements management and PLM tool experience e.g. IBM DOORS, Siemens Polarion, Siemens Teamcenter etc.
- Database administration experience.
- Experience with wireless network deployment, wireless LAN controllers and an appreciation of networking in a dynamic environment.
- Experience of good programming practice including use of continuous integration/deployment pipelines.
- Experience of automation platforms such as Saltstack, Puppet, Ansible etc.
- Experience of programming in Python and Bash.
- Experience of working in virtualized and cloud-based environments.
- Knowledge of ticketing and ITSM systems e.g. Autotask, HaloCRM and associated processes including ITIL v4.
- Basic understanding of electrical engineering.
- Rail or other transport industry experience.
- Targeted qualifications in IT, communication systems or electronic engineering, or relevant experience.
The Work Environment
You will be based at our office in Munich, Germany. Occasional visits to customer and supplier sites will be required. Hybrid working is possible.
