Expert Cloud Optimized Packet Core (352532)

At Ericsson Packet Core, we are transforming our portfolio to cloud based deployments. In this transformation, we are market leading! Are you our new technical lead to head the transformation and secure our continuous technology leadership within Telecommunication Core products?
We use Cloud Native technologies and tools to develop our 4G and 5G products on a container based micro-service architecture.
Cloud native design principles are applicable for network applications but need to be adapted for Telco grade performance and reliability. We call this cloud optimized network applications. As a holder of this position you shall provide knowledge, analysis and solutions to deliver outstanding customer value with cloud optimized Packet Core deployments. You will be the main driver for the advancement of cloud technology within Packet Core!
RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:
Drive our offerings so that they take advantage of Cloud Native technologies. This means ensuring technology leadership by setting the blueprint for Telco Cloud Native applications, both internally and towards our customers, through meetings, seminars, reports and white papers. You shall investigate and seek the best solutions for maintaining Telco grade for our cloud based portfolio.
You will maintain and build own competence by learning how applications, solutions and deployments are best making use of the new technology. You will study both how Webscale applications do this today, as well as learning the best way forward for our applications. You are encouraged to spread your knowledge within the organization through engaging meetings, courses and seminars.
This role will be impactful as an innovator; innovating and patenting the new technical solutions needed to deliver the best products for cloud deployments.
Since Ericsson has a full system portfolio for the whole mobile communication, including full cloud stack offerings, you will coordinate solutions and technology with other parts of Ericsson. It will also be vital to keep an external network to be able to drive our Cloud Native Packet Core solution within the industry and to our customers and promote needed technology choices and evolution.
NEEDED COMPETENCES AND EXPERIENCE:
Long (7-10 years) experience from development of cloud based applications
Excellent knowledge of cloud based technologies
Competence within telecom core applications
Experience of open source communities engaged in cloud technology
Experience from customer engagements and customer interaction
Experience from driving technology leading projects within the area
Excellent people networking skills
Excellent presentation and teaching skills
Innovation experience, including patents
Understanding of how business and technology perspectives work together

IT IS MERITING IF YOU ALSO HAVE
Competence of Packet Core application
Experience from webscale companies and applications
Experience from CNCF projects and competence in CNCF applications
Being a pioneer in applying cloud native technologies to telco application development

Location for this role: Göteborg, Sweden or Shanghai, China
Please send in you application in English as soon as possible, since the process is ongoing.
Kindly not that we cannot accept applications sent via email.
Why is Ericsson a good place to work?
Ericsson enables communications service providers to capture the full value of connectivity. The company’s portfolio spans Networks, Digital Services, Managed Services, and Emerging Business and is designed to help our customers go digital, increase efficiency, find new revenue streams, and create new user experiences. Ericsson’s investments in innovation have delivered the benefits of telephony and mobile broadband to billions of people around the world ensuring our solutions – and our customers – are at the forefront of innovation. We support networks that connect more than 2.5 billion subscribers. With close to 100,000 employees and customers in 180 countries, we combine global scale with technology and service leadership. 40 percent of the world’s mobile traffic is carried over an Ericsson network. And, our Technology for Good and Connect to Learn programs include creating technology that makes it easier to save lives, feed societies, bring technology to emerging markets and connectivity to remote areas, and grow businesses and prosperity.
At Ericsson, we give our employees the freedom to think big and navigate their career, on a global scale. We create technology that helps others, from helping people enjoy their favorite content to helping people recover from natural disasters by enabling better communications between rescue workers. Your ideas and innovations can turn into achievements that impact society and change the world, creating new connections, new possibilities, and new capabilities. We find that Ericsson is at its best when we bring together the diverse skills of our people. Working across business areas, across cultures, across geographical borders, across technical disciplines. Often, across ground-breaking solutions. Next generation technology can be staggeringly complex. But the simpler it is to use; the more people benefit from it. Join us and help build technology that makes it simple to connect with information, business, societies, and each other.
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