Telco Cloud Field Engineer Job at Canonical Nigeria

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We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Telco Cloud Field Engineer

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time

Job Description
What your day will look like:

• Match customer requirements to advanced capabilities in the VNF/CNF/NFVi/NFVO/VNFM/VIM/MEC space
• Provide technical pre-sales consulting to Service Provider teams
• Architect and implement advanced, resilient Service Provider Cloud and Application solutions
• Design and deliver software defined infrastructure with OpenStack, Kubernetes, MAAS and Ceph
• Learn model-driven operations with Juju charms for Kafka, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, NGINX, and more
• 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
• Demonstrate advanced Infrastructure as code (IaC) techniques relevant to telco
• Help customers adopt advanced Bare Metal, Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud solutions
• Learn from customer engagements and drive meaningful product improvements
• Shape our roadmap to accelerate our growth in the telco market.

Requirements
What we are looking for in you:

• Python software development experience
• A thorough understanding of the telco NFVi (VIM), NFVO, VNFM and MEC space
• Understanding of best practices for open source technology in telco virtualisation
• Working knowledge of Linux, Openstack and Kubernetes networking
• A passion to automate and improve all aspects of open source products and tooling
• Technical understanding of key telco technologies like CPU Pinning, NUMA, SRIOV, DPDK, etc
• A thorough working understanding of the architectures and infrastructure of MNOs and CSPs
• Working knowledge of Mobile Packet Core, Radio, VAS, OSS/BSS
• Ability to lead complex projects from start to finish
• A collaborative attitude with a keen eye on customer success
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities
• Able to travel up to 50% of the time for events, customer meetings, project delivery

Additional skills that you might also bring:

• Widely spoken second language such as Japanese, French, German, Spanish or Portuguese
• Track record of open source
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