Worksite Location

6220 Sprint Parkway, Overland Park, Kansas, 66211  or Frisco, TX

Job Title

• automation engineer

Job titles used for Match (Add industry standard job titles to improve quality of the results)

• automation engineer
• automation lead
• site reliability engineer

Top Skills - Must Haves

• devops
• Cloud Operations
• Application Support
• AMF
• SMF
• IMS
• PCF
• Linux
• openshift
• Grafana
• Kibana
• ServiceNow AIOps
• Red Hat

Developer:

• 3–6 years of hands-on experience in infrastructure or application automation
• Strong expertise in Ansible, with experience writing playbooks, roles, collections, and using Ansible Tower/AAP
• Proficient in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Go
• Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and CNF lifecycle operations
• Familiarity with GitOps tools (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux) and CI/CD systems (e.g., GitLab, Jenkins, Tekton)
• Solid understanding of Day 1 and Day 2 operational patterns in telecom environments
• Knowledge of telecom network domains such as IMS, 5G Core, RAN, SD-WAN, or vEPC

Secondary Skills - Nice to Haves

• Python

Key Responsibilities
• Develop, test, and maintain automation scripts and playbooks for provisioning, configuration, monitoring, scaling, and remediation of telecom network functions and platforms
• Implement Day 1 automation for CNF onboarding, infrastructure setup (OpenShift, Kubernetes, OpenStack), and service enablement
• Build and maintain Day 2 automation workflows for health checks, upgrades, certificate rotation, log cleanup, PVC recovery, and more
• Leverage tools such as Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform, GitOps (ArgoCD), and Event-Driven Ansible (EDA)
• Integrate automation workflows with observability platforms (Prometheus, Loki, Instana) and incident/event triggers
• Collaborate with platform and network teams to define automation requirements and implement reusable, modular code
• Document automation workflows, test cases, and runbooks in Git-based repositories
• Ensure automation meets telco-grade SLAs, latency expectations, and operational compliance standards

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience automating SR-IOV, DPDK, or NUMA-tuned nodes
• Familiarity with OpenStack, Helm, Kafka, or Multus networking
• Exposure to event-driven automation and observability-triggered workflows
• Experience integrating automation with OSS/BSS APIs or TMF Open APIs
• Contributions to open-source automation or telco-related GitHub projects