IP Network Architect

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 over 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 favourite 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. More often than not, 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.

As the tech firm that created the mobile world, and with more than 54,000 patents to our name, we’ve made it our business to make a mark. When joining our team at Ericsson you are empowered to learn, lead and perform at your best, shaping the future of technology. This is a place where you're welcomed as your own perfectly unique self, and celebrated for the skills, talent, and perspective you bring to the team. Are you in?

Come, and be where it begins.

Our Exciting Opportunity
We are now looking for an IP Network Architect to join our team. This position is a part of Shared Telecom Services (STS) which is a program with the purpose to provide telecom test environments for Ericsson globally. We deliver our services to a multitude of internal user ranging from R&D organizations to regional customer service and sales organizations. We are currently 50 persons located in Gothenburg and 120 in the whole STS program. The IP Network Architect scope covers the whole IP network from solution design, implementation, operation, and security. The network team within the program is responsible for the infrastructures that enable development, test, learning and showcasing of Ericsson products and solutions.

Focus is on the IP network solutions around IT and telecom, but it’s not limited to these areas. These networks include central infrastructures as well as shared and dedicated test environments. The work is mainly focused on IP architecture, routers, switches and firewalls, but products like traffic generators, packet monitoring, WiFi and network monitoring systems and more is also part of the work description. Different networking vendors are used in the environments; Ericsson’s own products as well as the big vendors in the networking world. The daily work includes analysis of requirements into design and implementation, building new as well as changing existing networks. The work is performed in teams working in agile influenced processes - cross both organizational and geographical borders. You will be working hands-on with IP networking and security solutions for telecom environments. Finally, you will be expected to engage in how we constantly can improve our services in terms of efficiency, quality and technology.

To be successful in the role you should have
You have a Bachelor or Master’s degree in Information Technology or Computer Systems including Network Technologies.
You are self-motivated, with the drive to solve problems and expand your knowledge
You enjoy working in teams, with people from various disciplines and you can communicate with others in English.
You are experienced within IP networking and security, at least with CCNP certificate level or equal. Experience within Telecom, Service Provider or large-scale Datacenter networks is a great advantage.
You are used to working with, and have deep knowledge about routers, switches and firewalls from different vendors in live environments and understand what it means to operate live networks with many users.
You are used to working with Linux based operating systems and preferably you have worked with various virtualization platforms.
Automation in the form of scripting, using e.g. Python, is something you are interested in.


What´s in it for you?
Here at Ericsson, our culture is built on over a century of courageous decisions. With us, you will no longer be dreaming of what the future holds – you will be redefining it. You won’t develop for the status quo, but will build what replaces it. Joining us is a way to move your career in any direction you want; with hundreds of career opportunities in locations all over the world, in a place where co-creation and collaboration are embedded into the walls. You will find yourself in a speak-up environment where empathy and humanness serve as cornerstones for how we work, and where work-life balance is a priority. Welcome to an inclusive, global company where your opportunity to make an impact is endless.

What happens once you apply?
Location for this role: Göteborg, Sweden
Recruiter: Anna Magnusson (anna.magnusson@ericsson.com)
This position reports to: Head of DevOps LN
Selection is ongoing please apply as soon as possible
Kindly note that we cannot process applications sent via email.
Primary country and city: Sweden (SE) || [[filter6]] || [[custCity]] || [[mfield2]]
Req ID: 633582