Telco Cloud Engineer (5G, OpenRan, OpenStack, Python) - Americas or APAC

Job Description

Canonical is seeking a Telco Cloud Engineer to join their Field Engineering organization. This role will involve leading customers through the design and delivery of OpenStack, Kubernetes, and software-defined networking solutions. The Telco Field Engineer will work with open-source technologies to help customers operate advanced infrastructure for 5G and beyond. The role is remote-based and can be located in the Americas or APAC regions.

As a Telco Field Engineer, they will be responsible for technical pre-sales consulting and multi-tenant private clouds and micro clouds.

Role involves:

• Matching customer requirements to advanced capabilities in the VNF/CNF/NFVi/NFVO/VNFM/VIM/MEC space
• Providing technical pre-sales consulting to Service Provider teams
• Designing and implementing telco-grade open source multi-tenant private clouds and micro clouds
• Deploying cloud solutions for customers (OpenStack, Kubernetes, MAAS and Ceph)
• Investigating, reporting and/or fixing software defects uncovered during customer deployments
• Demonstrating advanced Infrastructure as code (IaC) techniques relevant to telco (automation scripting, terraform, etc.)
• Helping customers adopt advanced Bare Metal, Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud solutions
• Shaping Canonical roadmap to accelerate growth in the telco market

Requirements:

• Python software development experience (mandatory - intermediate level)
• Terraform automation experience
• A thorough understanding of the telco NFVi (VIM), NFVO, VNFM and MEC space
• Technical understanding of key telco technologies like CPU Pinning, NUMA, SRIOV, DPDK, etc
• A thorough working understanding of the architectures and infrastructure of MNOs and CSPs
• Working knowledge of Mobile Packet Core, Radio, VAS, OSS/BSS
• Understanding of best practices for open source technology in telco virtualisation
• Working knowledge of Linux, Openstack and Kubernetes networking
• Ability to lead complex projects from start to finish
• A collaborative attitude with a keen eye on customer success
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities
• Able to travel up to 50% of the time for events, customer meetings, project delivery

Canonical offers:

• Fully remote working environment
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events