Telco Cloud Engineer (5G, OpenRan, OpenStack, Python) - Americas

Canonical; London; Remote; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company is seeking a Telco Field Engineer to help operators adopt software-defined services. You will design and deliver solutions using OpenStack and Kubernetes while providing technical consultations. Ideal candidates will have a deep understanding of telco infrastructure and a passion for open-source technologies. This role offers a fully remote working environment and various benefits.

Benefits

Fully remote working environment

Personal learning and development budget

Annual salary review

Recognition rewards

Employee Assistance Programme

Opportunities to travel for team sprints

Qualifications

• Ability to lead complex projects end-to-end.
• A passion for automation and open source tooling.
• Collaborative attitude focused on customer success.

Responsibilities

• Matching customer requirements with capabilities in the telco space.
• Providing technical pre-sales consulting to Service Provider teams.
• Designing and implementing telco-grade open source multi-tenant private clouds.

Skills

Deep understanding of telco NFVi (VIM), NFVO, VNFM, and MEC

Technical knowledge of telco technologies like CPU Pinning, NUMA, SRIOV, DPDK

Understanding of architectures and infrastructure of MNOs and CSPs

Knowledge of Mobile Packet Core, Radio, VAS, OSS/BSS

Experience with Linux, OpenStack, and Kubernetes networking

Excellent communication and presentation skills

Tools

OpenStack

Kubernetes

Linux

Job description

The role of a Telco Field Engineer at Canonical

The telco industry is moving towards software-defined services, driven by open source software, cloud computing, and VNF / CNF approaches. Canonical Ubuntu is a key platform for telco innovation, and we are expanding our team of specialists to accelerate this change.

Canonical enables operators and communication service providers to adopt this new landscape, focusing on platforms such as Ubuntu, OpenStack, and Kubernetes, along with automation tools for scalable operations.

As a part of the Canonical Field Engineering team, you will lead customers in designing and delivering solutions involving OpenStack, Kubernetes, and software-defined networking. Your enthusiasm for open-source technologies will help customers understand and operate advanced infrastructure to meet 5G and future demands. This role involves both designing and implementing solutions.

What your day will look like

• Matching customer requirements with capabilities in the VNF/CNF/NFVi/NFVO/VNFM/VIM/MEC space
• Providing technical pre-sales consulting to Service Provider teams
• Designing and implementing telco-grade open source multi-tenant private clouds and micro clouds
• Deploying cloud solutions such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, MAAS, and Ceph
• Investigating, reporting, and fixing software defects during customer deployments
• Demonstrating Infrastructure as Code (IaC) techniques relevant to telco environments
• Learning model-driven operations with Juju charms for Kafka, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, NGINX, and more
• Assisting customers in adopting advanced Bare Metal, Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud solutions
• Gathering insights from customer engagements to improve products
• Shaping our roadmap to grow in the telco market

What we are looking for in you

• Deep understanding of telco NFVi (VIM), NFVO, VNFM, and MEC
• Technical knowledge of telco technologies like CPU Pinning, NUMA, SRIOV, DPDK
• Understanding of architectures and infrastructure of MNOs and CSPs
• Knowledge of Mobile Packet Core, Radio, VAS, OSS/BSS
• Best practices for open source telco virtualization
• Experience with Linux, OpenStack, and Kubernetes networking
• A passion for automation and open source tooling
• Ability to lead complex projects end-to-end
• Collaborative attitude focused on customer success
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to travel up to 50% for events and meetings

Additional skills that you might also bring

• Second language proficiency
• Open source contributions

What we offer you

Your salary will depend on your location, experience, and skills. We offer additional benefits including bonuses and incentives based on performance. Our benefits include:

• Fully remote working environment
• Personal learning and development budget
• Annual salary review
• Recognition rewards
• Holiday leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunities to travel for team sprints
• Travel upgrades for events