Network Automation & OSS Designer

In this role you will design end-to-end network automation architectures that span orchestration, inventory, compliance, and observability. You will translate multi-domain network requirements into scalable blueprints aligned with industry standards, and mentor teams on cloud-native OSS development. You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and DevOps to drive implementations that enable automated, observable, and secure network operations. This position offers an opportunity to shape automation at scale in a global AI services firm.

• Design end-to-end network automation solution architectures across multiple layers
• Develop reference architectures and detailed blueprints for multi-domain automation
• Define integration patterns for northbound/southbound APIs and event-driven messaging
• Ensure alignment with TMF, IETF, ONF, ETSI NFV, 3GPP standards
• Produce HLD/LLD/interface docs/data models
• Architect automation workflows for service orchestration and lifecycle management
• Model TMF SID/eTOM inventory concepts
• Define governance for Config-as-Code and GitOps
• Drive IaC tooling adoption (Terraform, Ansible, Helm) for resource provisioning
• Design Kafka-based event streaming and telemetry architectures
• Define observability strategies (metrics/logs/traces, telemetry pipelines)
• Architect AIOps for closed-loop automation and anomaly detection
• Integrate OSS observability with cloud-native stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch)
• Lead design of intent-based networking and policy automation
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and present proposals to stakeholders
• Guide development teams on best practices for network automation and cloud-native OSS
• Evaluate/open-source and vendor tools for network automation
• Contribute to OSS community, standards bodies, and internal knowledge bases

• 8–15 years in network automation, OSS design, or network architecture
• Experience designing network orchestration and activation platforms
• Strong knowledge of NETCONF/YANG, RESTCONF, gNMI/gRPC, OpenConfig, SNMP
• Experience with TMF Open APIs (TMF641, TMF639, TMF638, TMF640, TMF642, TMF652)
• Hands-on with Config-as-Code and IaC tools (Ansible, Terraform, Helm, GitOps)
• Strong knowledge of Apache Kafka (topics, partitions, schema registry, Streams)
• Experience with event-driven microservices and publish/subscribe patterns
• Understanding of SDN controllers (ONOS, ODL, Nokia NSP, Cisco NSO)
• Knowledge of NFV MANO, VNF/CNF lifecycle
• Understanding of AIOps and closed-loop automation
• Experience with observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Loki, ELK)
• Knowledge of ML/AI model integration for anomaly detection and predictive network management
• Strong grasp of TM Forum frameworks (eTOM, TAM, SID, ODA)
• Familiarity with IETF automation standards (RFC 8040, RFC 6241, YANG)
• Understanding of ONF TAPI, MEF LSO, and 3GPP OSS interfaces
• Prior telco/CSP or large enterprise network engineering experience
• CCNA or equivalent network certification

• collaborative mindset
• ability to influence stakeholders
• strong communication skills
• Python/Go/Java development for automation tooling
• ZTP/self-healing/autonomous networks
• digital twin concepts