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Telco Field Engineering Director - Canonical - Worldwide

Telecommunications Engineering Director

Posted: April 17, 2026
Posted 83 days ago
Last seen in crawl: July 7, 2026 (1d ago)
Estimated Expiry: May 22, 2026
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Job Description

The Telco Field Engineering Director role involves managing teams of cloud solutions architects working directly with customers to design and deploy private and public cloud solutions for the telco industry. The role requires deep technical knowledge of telco NFV/SDN architectures, cloud technologies like Kubernetes and OpenStack, and experience in presales and team leadership.

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Job Details

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop managers and teams of field engineers
  • Solve customer problems by promoting technologies and acting as a trusted advisor
  • Participate in presales activities and develop strategies for telco cloud solutions
  • Manage team health and engineering processes

Requirements

  • Deep technical knowledge of telco NFV/SDN architectures
  • Experience with cloud technologies like Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph
  • Experience in presales and team leadership
  • Excellent communication skills in English

Skills & Technologies

KubernetesOpenStackNFVCloud computingLinuxNetworking

Education Level

None required
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