Alcatel Lucent continues to hire software developers and telecom engineers in Romania

The Timișoara centre of Alcatel Lucent French-American provider of telecom services and equipment will expand further this year amid outsourcing contracts signed with European telecom operators and also over its involvement in various research&development projects, with almost 80 people due to be recruited by yearend.
Of the 250 available positions announced for this year by Alcatel Lucent, 70 are still vacant and will most likely be filled by yearend, Cătălina Ocheșilă, a communications manager for South-eastern Europe with the company, told ZF.
The Timișoara centre started expanding as the company gained outsourcing contracts with European telecom operators.
The biggest contract managed by the Romanians employed by Alcatel Lucent in Timișoara is the one through which the management of fixed and mobile communications networks of Bulgaria’s Vivacom was taken over.
Alcatel Lucent last year derived 122.4m-euro turnover in Romania. The company last year had an average number of 1,800 employees, according to Finance Ministry data.