Telco Field Engineer - EMEA at Canonical

What you’ll be doing

• Matching customer requirements to advanced capabilities in the VNF/CNF/NFVi/NFVO/VNFM/VIM/MEC space
• Providing technical pre-sales consulting to the Service Provider sales 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
• Create and demonstrate advanced Infrastructure as code (IaC) techniques relevant to telco
• Architect and implement advanced, resilient Service Provider Cloud and Application solutions
• Master software defined infrastructure with OpenStack, Kubernetes, MAAS and Ceph
• Master model-driven operations with Juju Charmed Operators for Kafka, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, NGINX, and more
• Help customers adopt advanced Bare Metal, Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud solutions
• Distill insights from early customer engagements and translate these into meaningful product improvements
• Shape our roadmap and offerings to accelerate our growth within the telco market

What we need to see

• A thorough working understanding of the architectures and infrastructure of MNOs and CSPs
• Working knowledge of Mobile Packet Core, Radio, VAS, OSS/BSS
• A keen focus on the underlying infrastructure requirements for modern virtualized NF deployment approaches
• A thorough understanding of the telco NFVi (VIM), NFVO, VNFM and MEC space
• 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 demands
• Deep technical understanding of key telco technologies like CPU Pinning, NUMA, SRIOV, DPDK, etc
• Working understanding of Linux, Openstack and Kubernetes networking
• A passion to automate and improve all aspects of open source products and tooling
• Ability to multi-task and lead complex projects from start to finish
• A strong collaborative attitude with a keen eye to help enable customer success
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities
• Able to travel up to 50% of the time for events, customer meetings, project delivery
• BS Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
• At least 5-7 years within a Service Provider or NEP, focused on cloud, virtualisation, architecture or networking

Ways to stand out from the crowd

• Deep technical knowledge in telecommunications architectures
• Strong technical background leading and innovating within the open source telecommunications ecosystem
• French, German, Spanish or Portuguese as a second language