Principal Systems Design Engineer - TNMS Architecture

Role description:

• Seeking highly skilled R&D architect and systems engineer to contribute to analysis and specifications of features and components of our Network Management and Control Systems.
• Working in a team of Optical and Telecommunications domain experts supporting a team of >100 SW developers and testers
• Working an agile Scrum setup for SW development
• Customer focused mindset, adaptable and ability to drive engagement and collaboration with key Services Practices and Business partners

Key skills and experiences:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Telecommunications/Electrical engineering or Computer Science with >10y or Experience in the TelCo domain
• Requirements Engineering: You can define and refine both functional and non-functional requirements to ensure clear product goals.
• Translate complex technical insights into clear, actionable business requirements for internal teams and stakeholders
• Guide and engage with cross-functional teams, ensuring high-quality and timely solution delivery
• Restful API definition: strong knowledge on OpenAPI, gRPC and general API best practices
• Systems Thinking & Detail Orientation: You can see the big picture and pay attention to the details, ensuring complex systems are built with precision and reliability.
• Communication & Leadership: You are an excellent communicator, able to deliver presentations and detailed specifications. You are fluent in English and have a collaborative approach
• Standardization: You should be able to follow up with and contribute to standardization (ONF, MEF, TMF, IETF)
• Kubernetes/Containerization: You deeply understand container technology and Kubernetes, including building API extensions to manage complex applications.
• Distributed Systems: You have 10+ years of experience architecting and scaling resilient, high-performance distributed systems, ideally in observability or data-driven products.
• Backend Development: You are skilled in Golang for building scalable, efficient backends for large-scale data processing.
• Cloud-Native & DevOps: You have a foundation in cloud-native and DevOps practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, system reliability, root cause analysis, and performance optimization.
• Cloud Engineering: You have cloud engineering skills with experience deploying in both on-prem and public cloud environments.