• Application Deadline:
• Position: Telco Cloud Field Engineer


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Engineering / Technical 
  

Job Description

• As part of the Canonical Field Engineering organization, you will lead customers through the design and delivery of OpenStack, Kubernetes, and software-defined networking solutions.


• Your passion for open-source technologies will enable customers to understand and operate advanced infrastructure substrates to meet the demands of 5G and beyond.

What You'll Do

• Match customer requirements to advanced capabilities in the VNF/CNF/NFVi/NFVO/VNFM/VIM/MEC space


• 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


• Learn model-driven operations with Juju charms for Kafka, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, NGINX, and more


• Help customers adopt advanced Bare Metal, Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud solutions


• Learn from customer engagements and drive meaningful product improvements


• Shape our roadmap to accelerate our growth in the telco market.

Requirements / Relevant Skills

• BS Computer Science or STEM


• A thorough working understanding of the architectures and infrastructure of MNOs and CSPs


• Working knowledge of Mobile Packet Core, Radio, VAS, OSS/BSS


• Understanding the infrastructure requirements for modern virtualized NF deployments


• Thought leadership and the ability to lead architecture discussions about ETSI and/or 3GPP standards


• Understanding of best practices for open source technology in telco virtualisation roadmaps


• Architect level understanding and practical experience of telco workload demand


• Working knowledge of Linux, Openstack and Kubernetes networking


• A passion to automate and improve all aspects of open source products and tooling


• 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.

Mandatory skills:

• Python software development 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

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Widely spoken second language such as Japanese, French, German, Spanish or Portuguese


• Track record of open source contributions.