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Telco Cloud Field Engineer
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Americas, EMEA
Experience
3 years
Job description
A Telecommunications Field Engineer at Canonical who leads service provider customers through the design and delivery of OpenStack, Kubernetes and software-defined networking solutions. The role focuses on telco cloud platforms enabling VNF/CNF, NFV and MEC workloads.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Americas, EMEA
What you'll do
- Translate Service Provider requirements into practical telco cloud platform architectures, enabling VNF/CNF, NFV, and MEC workloads at scale
- Provide technical pre-sales consulting to Service Provider teams
- Design and implement telco-grade open source multi-tenant private clouds and micro clouds
- Investigate, report and/or fix software defects uncovered during customer deployments
- Demonstrate advanced Infrastructure as code (IaC) techniques relevant to telco
- Architect and implement advanced, resilient Service Provider Cloud and Application solutions
- Design and deliver software defined infrastructure with OpenStack, Kubernetes, MAAS and Ceph
- Help customers adopt advanced Bare Metal, Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud solutions
- Support customer tenant onboarding, participate in architectural and business capability discussions, and enable successful adoption and production readiness of customer use cases
- Learn from customer engagements and drive meaningful product improvements
- Shape our roadmap to accelerate our growth in the telco market
What we're looking for
- A thorough technical understanding of the telco NFVi (VIM), NFVO, VNFM and MEC space and key telco cloud infrastructure technologies like CPU Pinning, NUMA, SR-IOV, DPDK, etc
- Familiarity with telco architecture and industry standards
- Working knowledge of at least one of the following domains: Mobile Packet Core (4G/5G), Private Network, Radio Access Network (RAN), Voice, IP Backbone, VAS or OSS/BSS
- Working knowledge of Linux, Networking, OpenStack and Kubernetes
- Python software development experience for automation
- Ability to lead complex projects from start to finish
- A collaborative, customer-centric mindset with a strong focus on customer success
- Able to travel up to 25% of the time based on business requirements for events, customer meetings, project delivery
Nice to have
- Second language such as Spanish, Portuguese or French
- Track record of open source contributions
- Understanding of AI and machine learning concepts, including sovereign AI, and their potential applications in telco environments, such as network optimization, predictive maintenance, unified communication, and customer experience improvement
- Exposure to frameworks such as 3GPP, TM Forum ODA, eTOM, ETSI NFV, ONAP, O-RAN, or similar is a plus
Your team
Canonical Field Engineering organization
A team of specialists who work in the telco industry to accelerate the move to software-defined services.
Benefits
- Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- 40 days annual leave per annum, including public holidays and our All Company holiday periods
- 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
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About Canonical
The company that publishes Ubuntu
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.
Mission
At the forefront of the global move to open source, changing the world on a daily basis.
Key facts
- 2004
- Open source software
- Remote-first company since 2004
- Publishes Ubuntu
- Recruits on a global basis
What they value
- Excellence
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background