Telco Cloud Field Engineer

Responsibilities

• Translate Service Provider requirements into practical telco cloud platform architectures for 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 fix software defects uncovered during customer deployments
• Demonstrate advanced Infrastructure as Code techniques relevant to telco
• Architect and implement resilient Service Provider Cloud and Application solutions
• Design and deliver software defined infrastructure with OpenStack, Kubernetes, MAAS and Ceph
• Support customer tenant onboarding and enable successful adoption and production readiness
• Drive meaningful product improvements and shape roadmap for telco market growth

Requirements

• Thorough technical understanding of telco NFVi (VIM), NFVO, VNFM and MEC space
• Knowledge of key telco cloud infrastructure technologies: CPU Pinning, NUMA, SR-IOV, DPDK
• Familiarity with telco architecture and industry standards
• Working knowledge of at least one domain: Mobile Packet Core (4G/5G), Private 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
• Collaborative, customer-centric mindset with strong focus on customer success
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time

Preferred Qualifications

• Second language such as Spanish, Portuguese or French
• Track record of open source contributions
• Understanding of AI and machine learning concepts for telco applications
• Exposure to frameworks such as 3GPP, TM Forum ODA, eTOM, ETSI NFV, ONAP, O-RAN

Benefits

• Fully remote working environment
• Personal learning and development budget of $2,000 per annum
• Annual compensation review and recognition rewards
• 40 days annual leave per annum including public holidays
• Parental Leave and Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at sprints
• Priority Pass for travel and upgrades for long haul company events

About the Company

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the publisher of Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, Canonical changes the world on a daily basis. The company has been remote-first since its inception in 2004.