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    Telco Field Engineering Director

    Canonical
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    Remote
    Director
    Full Time
    23 days ago
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    Requirements

    • Thorough technical understanding of telco NFVi (VIM), NFVO, VNFM and MEC space and key telco cloud infrastructure technologies like CPU Pinning, NUMA, SR-IOV, DPDK
    • Familiarity with telco architecture and industry standards
    • Working knowledge of at least one of the following domains: Mobile Packet Core (4G/5G), Private Network, Radio Access Network (RAN), Voice, IP Backbone, VAS or OSS/BSS
    • Knowledge of cloud computing concepts and technologies such as Kubernetes, Openstack, AWS, GCP, Azure, Ceph
    • Practical knowledge of Linux and networking
    • Experience in technical presales
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
    • Passion and a track record of developing and growing people
    • Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring engineers and managers
    • Organised and able to ensure team delivers timely, high quality results
    • Exceptional academic track record from high school and preferably university
    • Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time

    What You'll Do

    • Lead and develop managers and teams of Field engineers in the areas of Presales and Professional Services
    • Solve customer problems by promoting technologies and being a trusted advisor
    • Work remotely in a single major time zone
    • Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
    • Identify and measure team health indicators
    • Implement disciplined engineering processes
    • Represent team and product to stakeholders, partners, and customers
    • Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
    • Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
    • Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders

    Nice to Have

    • Second language - Spanish or French preferred
    • Python knowledge
    • Experience collaborating with external partners
    • Experience collaborating with several internal teams and providing stakeholder feedback for engineering roadmaps
    • Understanding of AI and machine learning concepts including sovereign AI and their potential applications in telco environments
    • Exposure to frameworks such as 3GPP, TM Forum ODA, eTOM, ETSI NFV, ONAP, O-RAN or similar

    Benefits

    • Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
    • Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
    • Annual compensation review
    • Recognition rewards
    • Annual holiday leave
    • Maternity and paternity leave
    • Employee Assistance Programme
    • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
    • Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events

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