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Role Overview: As part of Blue Planet, a division of Ciena, you will join an agile and innovative team dedicated to automating complex networks worldwide. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge networking technologies, cloud-native architectures, and large-scale automation systems that drive global communications. Your role will involve shaping solutions for Telco carrier-grade software products in areas like 5G, MEF, and Transport while collaborating with global stakeholders to enhance your expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and telecom standards. Key Responsibilities: - Define architecture and solution design for technical use cases of Telco carrier-grade software products, integrating with vendors across network scenarios such as 5G, MEF, WDM, Access, Core, and Transport. - Provide technical leadership to a software engineering team to ensure the delivery of high-quality, functionally excellent products. - Translate customer requirements and new industry standards into actionable software design and execution activities. - Drive technical integration between product areas for seamless solutions. - Foster learning and development of skills required for distributed, highly available, and scalable microservice architectures. - Collaborate with global stakeholders, including cross-functional R&D teams, PLM and Product Architects, 3rd party vendors, and Field Support teams. Qualifications Required: - Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science (or equivalent). - 10+ years of experience in designing and developing OSS solutions within the IT-Telecom/Software industry, focusing on areas such as telco planning, inventory, TMF, service fulfillment, and/or network orchestration. - Strong expertise in architecture, design, and development of OSS solutions, emphasizing federation, inventory, orchestration, fulfillment, or activation. - Familiarity with telecom industry standards such as TMF, ETSI, 3GPP, and TOSCA orchestration modeling. - Proven experience in SDLC process models like Agile, with a consistent and diligent work ethic. - Exposure to distributed system architecture concepts like high availability. - Proficiency in Python, Java, or Groovy, along with experience in Neo4j or other graph databases, and evidence of leadership and design expertise. Nice to Have: - Exposure to open-source cloud-native technologies such as ELK, Docker, Kubernetes (K8S), Helm, Prometheus, and Grafana. - Experience as a Business Analyst or Solutions Designer, gathering OSS/Inventory requirements and providing solutions. - Technical involvement or understanding in solution formulation within a Project Manager role. - Knowledge of network orchestration and automation solutions. - Familiarity with microservice development and distributed systems.,
