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)

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