Telco Cloud Engineer (5G, OpenRan, OpenStack, Python) - Americas at Canonical

Role overview

Canonical is hiring a Telco Cloud Engineer to work remotely across the Americas. You will design and deliver OpenStack, Kubernetes and software-defined networking solutions for telco customers, helping operators adopt cloud-native VNFs and CNFs for 5G and beyond. This is a hands-on role combining design, implementation and automation to meet telco-grade requirements.

What your day will look like

• Match customer requirements to advanced capabilities in the VNF/CNF/NFVi/NFVO/VNFM/VIM/MEC space.
• Provide technical pre-sales consulting to service provider teams.
• Design and implement telco-grade multi-tenant private clouds and micro clouds.
• Deploy cloud solutions (OpenStack, Kubernetes, MAAS, Ceph) and automate operations.
• Investigate, report and fix software defects uncovered during deployments.
• Demonstrate Infrastructure as Code techniques and automation scripting, including terraform and related tooling.
• Work with model-driven operations using Juju charms for services like Kafka, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, NGINX and more.
• Help customers adopt Bare Metal, Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud solutions and feed learnings back to product and roadmap.

What we are looking for in you

• Python software development experience - mandatory, intermediate level.
• Terraform automation experience.
• Thorough understanding of telco NFVi (VIM), NFVO, VNFM and MEC concepts.
• Technical knowledge of telco technologies such as CPU pinning, NUMA, SRIOV, DPDK.
• Working knowledge of Mobile Packet Core, Radio, VAS, OSS/BSS and telco infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of Linux, OpenStack and Kubernetes networking.
• Strong automation mindset and ability to lead complex projects from start to finish.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, and a collaborative attitude focused on customer success.
• Availability to travel up to 50% for events, customer meetings and project delivery.

Additional skills that you might also bring

• Second language skills.
• Track record of open source contributions.

What we offer you

Compensation is based on location, experience and performance. Canonical provides a competitive base pay plus potential annual bonus or sales incentives for eligible roles. Additional benefits are provided and may vary by location.

• Fully remote working environment - Canonical has operated remotely since 2004.
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000 USD per year.
• Annual compensation review.
• Recognition rewards.
• Annual holiday leave.
• Parental leave.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Opportunity to travel to meet colleagues at twice yearly team sprints and other company events.
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

About Canonical

Canonical publishes Ubuntu and leads open source innovation for cloud, AI, IoT and enterprise. The company recruits globally and sets high standards for talent, promoting remote-first distributed work and continuous learning.

Other information

Requisition ID: 811. Location: Remote - Americas. Remote working is supported. Travel up to 50% is required. Canonical is an equal opportunity employer and will provide reasonable accommodations for travel where needed.