Telco Cloud Engineer, Midrand

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Role Overview The Telco Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, building, operating, and optimizing cloud-native infrastructure platforms supporting telecom workloads. This role focuses on Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms, storage, GitOps automation, and bare-metal infrastructure tuned for low-latency, carrier-grade environments.

Key Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters in telco-grade environments.

Build and manage PaaS/CaaS platforms supporting cloud-native network functions (CNFs).

Implement observability, logging, and alerting across platforms.

Automate infrastructure and application lifecycle using GitOps and Ansible.

Provision and tune bare-metal infrastructure for performance and reliability.

Technical Skills&Experience

PaaS / CaaS (Kubernetes&OpenShift):

Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals: Pods, Deployments, Ingress, StorageClasses, PVs, PVCs.

OpenShift cluster deployment and worker node scaling.

Cloud-native networking: CNI, Multus, Istio, MetalLB.

Container registry management (image upload, project setup, role assignments).

Kubernetes Operators lifecycle management.

Bare-metal provisioning and firmware management.

Monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, and Alertmanager (SLO-based alerting).

Centralized logging with Elasticsearch and Fluentd/Fluent Bit.

Advanced Cluster Management

CSAR package definition and lifecycle management.

Helm-based deployment automation.

Advanced Kubernetes troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

Ceph Storage

Ceph installation on RHEL environments.

Ceph/Rook provisioning: RBD, RGW, CephFS.

OpenShift Data Foundation integration.

GitOps&Automation

GitOps workflows using ArgoCD.

Git, Helm, Kustomize, and YAML expertise.

Infrastructure automation using Ansible.

Infrastructure Build&Optimization

Hardware provisioning using IPMI/Redfish, PXE, BMCs (Dell/HPE).

Firmware and BIOS/UEFI tuning for low-latency workloads.

RHEL CoreOS and Linux kernel/sysctl tuning.

Node Tuning Operator configuration.

Linux networking: bridges, VLANs, bonding, MTU tuning.

Benefits We offer a transparent, fast paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues. You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools. Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards. You will have access to state‑of‑the‑art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends. You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Strong experience in telecom, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale distributed systems.

Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift in production environments.

Soft Skills

Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.

Ability to work in complex, mission‑critical environments.

Excellent collaboration and documentation skills.

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