Senior Network Automation & OSS Architect

Bounteous; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Part time

Job summary

Bounteous is seeking an experienced Technical Solution Designer with 8–15 years of network automation and OSS architecture experience. The role focuses on translating complex network and business requirements into scalable, standard‑aligned blueprints spanning IP/MPLS, optical, mobile RAN/Core, SD‑WAN, and cloud environments.

You will define API patterns, IaC adoption, and real‑time telemetry architectures.

Qualifications

• 8–15 years of experience in network automation, OSS solution design, or network architecture roles.
• Hands‑on experience with Config-as-Code and Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Strong knowledge of network resource APIs and interfaces: NETCONF/YANG, RESTCONF, gNMI/gRPC, OpenConfig, SNMP.
• Experience with TMF Open APIs (TMF641, TMF639, TMF638, TMF640, TMF642, TMF652) for service and resource management.
• Experience designing event‑driven microservices and publish‑subscribe patterns for telemetry and automation.
• CCNA or equivalent certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end network automation architectures spanning orchestration, inventory, compliance, and observability.
• Develop reference architectures and detailed solution blueprints for multi-domain network automation (IP/MPLS, optical, mobile RAN/Core, SD-WAN, cloud).
• Define integration patterns for northbound and southbound APIs, resource-facing interfaces, and event‑driven message exchanges.
• Ensure solutions align with TM Forum Open APIs (TMF), IETF, ONF, ETSI NFV, and 3GPP.
• Produce solution design artifacts including High‑Level Designs (HLD) and Low‑Level Designs (LLD).
• Architect automation workflows for network service orchestration, lifecycle management, and activation.
• Design resource and service inventory models aligned with TMF SID/eTOM frameworks.
• Define governance strategies leveraging Config-as-Code and GitOps.
• Promote IaC tooling adoption (Terraform, Ansible, Helm) for network provisioning.
• Design Kafka-based event streaming and messaging architectures for real‑time telemetry.
• Define observability strategies covering metrics, logs, traces, and network telemetry pipelines.
• Lead AIOps capabilities including closed‑loop automation and anomaly detection.
• Integrate OSS observability with cloud‑native monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch).
• Lead design of intent‑based networking and policy‑driven automation frameworks.
• Collaborate with product managers, network engineers, DevOps to drive designs to implementation.
• Present architectural proposals to stakeholders and drive sign‑offs.
• Mentor development teams on best practices for network automation and cloud‑native OSS development.
• Evaluate and recommend open‑source tools, frameworks, and vendor solutions.

Skills

Network automation

OSS design

Network architecture

APIs gNMI/RESTCONF

TMF/Open APIs

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Kafka

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Elasticsearch

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

CCNA or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Kafka

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Elasticsearch

Job description

Bounteous is seeking an experienced Technical Solution Designer with 8–15 years of network automation and OSS architecture experience. The role focuses on translating complex network and business requirements into scalable, standard‑aligned blueprints spanning IP/MPLS, optical, mobile RAN/Core, SD‑WAN, and cloud environments.

You will define API patterns, IaC adoption, and real‑time telemetry architectures.