Infrastructure Telco Architect

Role Overview

• Collaborate with project and customer team members to meet timelines and goals.
• Contribute to project documentation and diagrams, including quality assurance (QA) and ticket and bug management.
• Mentor and share knowledge with customers.
• Work directly with senior associates and telecommunication clients, understanding their industry-specific needs, to guide the adoption of automation techniques and DevOps processes to improve the cloud life cycle, including infrastructure and application uptime, availability, and time-to-market.
• Analyze client business requirements and translate them into specific technology, system, and application designs to ensure the architecture aligns with the client's long-term business goals.
• Lead the architecture design activities and sessions, ensuring that various systems and technologies are integrated to meet the end customer's requirements.
• Design and advocate for solutions using cloud technologies, robust design principles, multiple integration points, and automation and orchestration methods.

Requirements

• 5+ years in a related technology position, e.g., sales, consulting, operations, development, etc
• 4+ years of experience with Public Cloud and Linux technologies.
• 4+ years of experience with telecommunications technologies and networking infrastructure.
• 2+ years of experience with automation frameworks and tools like Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
• 2+ years of experience with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, ACM, ACS, Quay, Ceph, or Kubernetes.
• Thorough knowledge of network functions virtualization (NFV), network acceleration such as DPDK and SRIOV, zero-touch provisioning (ZTP), cloud software-defined networking (SDN) or storage disciplines, and DevOps models and technologies.
• Experience with storage systems like FiberChannel (and/or FCOE), iSCSI, NFS, or other Software Defined Storage technologies.
• Extensive experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration and design.
• Virtualization platforms utilizing KVM, QEMU, OpenStack, OpenShift Virtualization, and VMware.
• Experience with AppDev automation and pipelines. Technology like Jenkins, Tekton, ArgoCD, etc
• Experience with networking technologies, including VLANs, routing protocols, 4/5G, IPAM solutions, and Load Balancers. Technology like Infoblox TCPWave, F5, etc
• Experience in designing and delivering implementations using various public and private cloud infrastructure technologies and providers.
• Interest and knowledge in AI/ML technologies and recent developments.
• Admin-level familiarity with vSphere, RHV, Nutanix, or OpenStack VMware infrastructure, including ESX, vCenter, [S/DV]Switches/NSX, Datastores, vSAN, vVols, vRealize, SRM, Backup software
• Advanced level with VMware VM foundational technologies for networks ([S/DV]Switches/NSX) and storage (Datastores, vSAN, vVols)
• Knowledge of common Add-Ons or third-party tools, including Aria/vRealize Suite, SRM, Backup software, and Performance tools)

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• Chef
• Cloud
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• NFS
• OpenShift
• OpenStack
• Puppet
• SaltStack
• VMware

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities