About The Job
The Global telco CDS organization has an opportunity for an experienced Associate consultant who has exciting career opportunities at a time when RedHat is driving the way Telecom Operators & Service providers are transforming to the Cloud, CNF, NFV and SDN. You shall be engaged in Cloudband, Cloud Platforms and NFV (vIMS, vPPC, vEPC, …) delivery projects , spanning the Cloud portfolio as well 3th party Cloud infrastructures. As an expert Associate consultant you will participate in Cloud/NFV/SDN customer delivery projects, with focus on Openstack, Openshift and K8s cloud components, spanning High and Low Level Design , Test & Customer acceptance Design (Strategy, Test Cases) , and Customer lab integration & validation, delivery (install and commissioning in the field) and customer field acceptance. You shall perform solution-based install, configuration and acceptance of pre-architected solutions, either remote or on-site – to that end, some travel to customer sites will be required. Hence your willingness to travel abroad for short trips. You shall also provide remote or on-site expert support for on-site solution engineers during installation, acceptance and diagnosis activities and take care of integration issue handling during deployment.
What Will You Do
- Participation in customer’s projects activities related to Cloud/NFV/SDN projects
- Understand our customers and product functional and technical requirements
- Understand how products integrate into our customer’s environment
- Understand customization requirements that the customer will need
- Assistance as consultant in customer’s presentations, documentation and workshops
- Participates in the High Level Design (HLD) approval cycle of the customer’s solution
- Responsible for Low Level Design (LLD), with detailed architecture and design of the solution
- Responsible for Test Design (Strategy, Test Cases and Reports)
- Producing Customer Documentation
- Participation in Deployment Industrialisation process to shorter lead time and reduce deployment efforts
- Preparation and Execution Proof of Concepts
- Upgrade and tests customer specific software/hardware before it is implemented to the customer’s environment
- Product and Application integration
- Perform solution based install, configuration and acceptance of pre-architected solution, either remote or on-site
- Remote expert support for on-site integration engineers during installation, acceptance and diagnosis activities
- Integration Issue Handling during Deployment
- Develop enough knowledge on our customer’s environment to participate in customer discussion and facilitate integration recommendation
- Some travel to customer Sites to conduct troubleshooting, and assist with the migration, particularly in Production Environments
- Manage customer technical requests and regularly update customer on progress
What Will You Bring
- Expertise in NFV, SDN, and Cloud concepts linked with virtualization practical experience is needed
- Expertise in Cloud Management Systems, Virtual Infrastructure Management systems, and Cloud
- Infrastructure Management Systems is required.
- Technical and practical knowledge on OpenStack, OpenShift, and Kubernetes, RHEL is key
- Expertise in HEAT/HOT, Ansible, and Mistral concepts is required
- Familiar with cloud scripting (YAML,...) and cloud configuration management systems recipes,
- OpenStack (heat), chef (Ruby), puppet (Ruby),..
- Knowledge of CBIS, NCS, OCP
- Expertise in Containers, Kubernetes, and Microservices concepts
- You are personally committed to quality
- You love working in a customer-facing environment
- You operate autonomously and are result-driven
- You take ownership and accountability
- You are flexible in taking up different roles and tackling multiple technologies, being a quick learner
- You have strong negotiation and communication skills
- You are capable of showing technical and organizational leadership
Specific Additional Information
- You have a Telecommunications/Electronics/SW/Computer master’s degree or equivalent through
- experience
- You have multiple years of experience (at least 5 years) in e2e integration and validation of telecom
- solutions
- Very high English proficiency
- Up to ~25% travel (flexible)
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.
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