Telco Cloud Field Engineer

Canonical

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Full Time

Posted April 6, 2026

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Job Description

A Telecommunications Field Engineer at Canonical is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting open-source telco cloud solutions such as OpenStack and Kubernetes, helping service providers deploy and operate advanced network infrastructure to meet the demands of 5G and beyond.

Key Responsibilities

Design and deliver telco cloud platform architectures for VNF, CNF, NFV, and MEC workloads
Implement and support open source multi-tenant private clouds and micro clouds
Translate Service Provider requirements into practical telco cloud solutions
Investigate, report, and fix software defects during customer deployments
Demonstrate advanced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) techniques for telco environments
Architect and implement resilient Service Provider Cloud and Application solutions using OpenStack, Kubernetes, MAAS, and Ceph
Support customer onboarding, architectural discussions, and production readiness of telco use cases
Lead complex projects from start to finish in telco infrastructure environments

Requirements

A thorough technical understanding of the 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
Working knowledge of Linux, Networking, OpenStack and Kubernetes
Python software development experience for automation
Ability to lead complex projects from start to finish
A collaborative, customer-centric mindset with a strong focus on customer success
Able to travel up to 25% of the time based on business requirements for events, customer meetings, and project delivery