Telco Cloud Field EngineerVerified as a real position

Who 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

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

About the position

The telco industry is moving to software-defined services. This transformation is driven by open source software, cloud computing and the move to VNF / CNF approaches. Canonical Ubuntu is a key platform for telco innovation, and we are growing our team of specialists who work in the industry to accelerate the change. Canonical enables operators and communications service providers to embrace this new world, with a focus on platforms such as Ubuntu, OpenStack, and Kubernetes, and reusable, high quality automation for operations at scale.

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