Iridium is seeking a Principal Telecom Cloud Engineer to manage and operate advanced network infrastructure, including 4G/5G Core and OpenRAN (O-RAN) systems, with a focus on automation, security, and reliability within their Telco Cloud environment.
Requirements
- Extensive experience designing, implementing, and maintaining Telco-Grade IP networks and systems, including cloud and hardware-based routers, switches, VPN appliances, and firewalls
- Proficient in Git, CI/CD, containerization, IaaC: GitLab, Harbor, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible
- Proficient in Linux and/or Debian GNU/Linux operating systems, including overall administration and kernel optimizations
- Proficient with monitoring tools and log servers (e.g., Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Splunk)
- Extensive experience on cloud-based network system deployments and operations, preferrable in AWS, consisting of VPC’s, Firewalls, Transit Gateways, Direct Connects, SR-IOV network interfaces, and VPNs
- Extensive experience with troubleshooting and resolution of catastrophic network outages
- Expertise in one or more scripting languages, such as Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform, etc.
Responsibilities
- Maintain cloud based telecom subsystems and services
- Be responsible for administration and maintenance of the remote monitoring and management system: update agent scripts, respond to alerts, monitor dashboards, and perform periodic system reviews
- Identify, detect, investigate and resolve Iridium Telecom Cloud issues
- Provide Telecom Cloud consultant services to the organization
- Develop and maintain network infrastructure, including automation and security
- Manage Linux and/or Debian GNU/Linux environments
- Define, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and process to automate infrastructure deployments, configuration changes, and software upgrades
Other
- Work collaboratively with vendors, subcontractors, and consultants to resolve outstanding issues
- Prepare and maintain technical documentation
- Manage the coordination and delivery of multiple or complex technical assignments designed with end goals in mind, including managing shifting priorities
- Demonstrate the ability to understand how complex issues are affecting project operations and identify and design the formation of innovative solutions from concept through to completion
- Be able to travel up to 25%
- This position directly performs under, supports, or is exposed to a U.S. government contract. To comply with the requirements of that U.S. government contract, applicants for this position must be U.S. citizens
- Ability to obtain a U.S government issued security clearance
