Telco Cloud Engineer 5G, OpenRan, OpenStack, Python - Americas
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Posted January 20, 2026
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Job Description
A Telco Field Engineer at Canonical is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting open source cloud and network solutions for telecommunications providers, focusing on technologies like OpenStack, Kubernetes, and NFV/CNF to enable 5G and future network innovations.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement telco-grade open source multi-tenant private clouds and micro clouds
- Deploy cloud solutions such as OpenStack, Kubernetes, MAAS, and Ceph for customers
- Match customer requirements to capabilities in VNF, CNF, NFVi, NFVO, VNFM, VIM, and MEC spaces
- Provide technical pre-sales consulting to Service Provider teams
- Investigate, report, and fix software defects during customer deployments
- Demonstrate infrastructure as code (IaC) techniques for telco automation using scripting and Terraform
- Assist customers in adopting advanced Bare Metal, Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud solutions
- Lead complex projects from start to finish
Requirements
- Intermediate level Python software development experience
- Terraform automation experience
- A thorough understanding of the telco NFVi VIM, NFVO, VNFM, and MEC space
- Technical understanding of key telco technologies like CPU Pinning, NUMA, SRIOV, DPDK
- A thorough working understanding of the architectures and infrastructure of Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Communications Service Providers (CSPs)
- Working knowledge of Mobile Packet Core, Radio, VAS, OSS BSS
- Understanding of best practices for open source technology in telco virtualization
- Working knowledge of Linux, OpenStack, and Kubernetes networking
- Ability to lead complex projects from start to finish
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 50% of the time for events, customer meetings, and project delivery
Benefits & Perks
Fully remote working environment
Personal learning and development budget of 2,000 USD per annum
Annual compensation review
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Parental Leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at sprints
Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Base salary with potential for additional bonuses and incentives depending on role and location
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