Senior Telco Cloud Solution Engineer

Responsibilities:

As a Principal Telco Cloud Solution Engineer, you will be validating and defining the best cloud solution architecture for Client. The position will be central in bringing a solution design through the development phase into a mature product ready for commercial deployment. The Telco Cloud Solution Expert will interact closely with Client key partners as well as Technology, Engineering, Operations and RF Teams.

Responsibilities :

• Track industry best practices and evolution of open source-based cloud native containerization and open-stack based virtualization platforms.
• Identify and define best practices for virtualized and cloud native RAN/CORE applications for mobile networks.
• Identify and define best practices for stateless, micro-services-based application architecture, protocols and security requirements.
• Help define product requirements and drive the product roadmap features.
• Follow the development life cycle to ensure market requirements are properly captured and implemented in the products and solutions.
• Guide Technical Publication with documentation requirement and provide content input to ensure readiness in all aspects of new product introduction.
• Define Entry/Exit criteria for new software loads/releases migrating from Sandbox > Integration > Pre-production > Production environments.
• Define test cases and evaluate performance behavior of new software releases in integration/pre-production/production environments
• Support FOA/FFI testing and evaluation.
• Work closely with Client Technology Team, RF, Engineering, Ops and Deployment Team to define automation call flows for zero-touch provisioning, commissioning, and management of the CORE & RAN solution. This includes call flows for auto-healing, scaling in/ scaling out, migration, hitless SW upgrade, etc. Once the call flows are defined, identify the product specific requirements.

Education & Experience:

• Master of Science degree is required - Electrical Engineering or Communication Engineering or Computer Science degree is desired.
• Deep technical knowledge of Cloud Execution Environment & building of Cloud native applications.
• Proven success and expertise in architecting innovative solutions.
• Knowledge in Open-stack & various flavors, Infrastructure Virtualization, System management, Cloud Environments, NFV/SDN functions and PaaS.
• Cloud / Virtualization Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenStack, OpenShift, VMware vSphere / Tanzu.
• You have in-depth knowledge of cloud storage solutions on top of AWS, GCP, Azure and/or on-perm private cloud, such as Ceph, CephFS, GlusterFS.
• DevOps Jenkins, Git, Gerrit, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform.
• Backend Knowledge Bash, Python, Go.
• PaaS Level solutions such as Keycload for IAM, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, DBaaS (such as MySQL, Cassandra).
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenNESS and experience of deploying cloud native applications.
• Good understanding and knowledge of BMC, IPMI, PXE boot, RedFish, etc. for management of remote server.
• Good understanding of mobile operator network & deployment architecture and security requirements.
• Good understanding of 5G architecture and RAN concepts.
• 10+ years of experience in system engineering role with the majority of this time working on Virtualization/ Containerization technology and network automation.
• Has experience and is comfortable in interacting and presenting to senior executives.

Other Desired Qualifications : (Education, Technical Skills/Knowledge):

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
• You have low-level knowledge of virtualization environment KVM, Containers, Linux Kernel Optimization & Tuning.
• Tools Knowledge such as Robot, Selenium, Harbor, Artifactory, REST.
• You have good Knowledge of switching and routing configuration and protocols.
• You have hands-on experience with Open vSwitch, Multus SRIOV, DPDK.
• Front-End Knowledge ReactJS, Typescript (knowledge of other Front-End technologies is a plus).