Telco Cloud Engineer (5G, OpenRan, OpenStack, Python)

🕒 July 30, 2025

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Canonical

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2004

Open Source • Cloud • AI

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the world's most popular open-source operating system, which provides fast, modern, and secure Linux solutions for desktops, servers, and cloud environments. They offer a comprehensive set of products and services, including Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, cloud solutions such as OpenStack, and tools for managing containerized applications with Kubernetes. Canonical focuses on making open-source technology reliable and accessible across various industries, from IoT and AI to enterprise infrastructure.

📋 Description

• The role of a Telco Field Engineer at Canonical • The telco industry is moving to software-defined services. This transformation is driven by open source software, cloud computing and the move to VNF / CNF approaches. Canonical Ubuntu is a key platform for telco innovation, and we are growing our team of specialists who work in the industry to accelerate the change. • Canonical enables operators and communications service providers to embrace this new world, with a focus on platforms such as Ubuntu, OpenStack, and Kubernetes, and reusable, high quality automation for operations at scale. • As part of the Canonical Field Engineering organization, you will lead customers through the design and delivery of OpenStack, Kubernetes, and software-defined networking solutions. Your passion for open-source technologies will enable customers to understand and operate advanced infrastructure substrates to meet the demands of 5G and beyond. This role is a hands-on role where you will both design and implement solutions. • 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 open source multi-tenant private clouds and micro clouds • Deploy cloud solutions for our customers (OpenStack, Kubernetes, MAAS and Ceph) • Investigate, report and/or fix software defects uncovered during customer deployments • Demonstrate advanced Infrastructure as code (IaC) techniques relevant to telco (automation scripting, terraform, etc.) • Help customers adopt advanced Bare Metal, Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud solutions • Learn from customer engagements and drive meaningful product improvements • Shape our roadmap to accelerate our growth in the telco market

🎯 Requirements

• Python software development experience (mandatory - intermediate level) • 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, etc • A thorough working understanding of the architectures and infrastructure of MNOs and CSPs • Working knowledge of Mobile Packet Core, Radio, VAS, OSS/BSS • Understanding of best practices for open source technology in telco virtualisation • Working knowledge of Linux, Openstack and Kubernetes networking • A passion to automate and improve all aspects of open source products and tooling • Ability to lead complex projects from start to finish • A collaborative attitude with a keen eye on customer success • Excellent communication and presentation abilities • Able to travel up to 50% of the time for events, customer meetings, project delivery

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since 2004! • Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD 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