OSS Automation Engineers
AST SpaceMobile3 months ago
Riga, LatviaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build, develop, and deploy provisioning, configuration management, fault and alarm handling, cross-domain orchestration, and integration automation within the AST OSS platform.
- Translate architectural specifications, interface control documents, and functional and non-functional requirements into production-ready code.
- Write modular, maintainable, documented software and participate in design and code reviews.
- Implement and maintain integration tests, regression suites, performance benchmarks, and system-level integration testing.
- Participate in sprint planning, maintain backlog hygiene, and deliver against milestone commitments.
- Maintain component specifications, API contracts, test results, runbooks, and other technical documentation.
- Collaborate with internal teams to clarify requirements, validate assumptions, and ensure software meets operational needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 3 years of professional experience in network or business process automation, or combined network/software engineering in a live-network operational environment.
- Proven experience building production automation and orchestration workflows for real operational processes rather than only test or CI/CD automation.
- Hands-on experience with at least one of Temporal, Apache Airflow, or AWS Step Functions for multi-step, stateful, or long-running workflows.
- Strong proficiency in Python or Go for automation and integration logic.
- Experience with network configuration automation tools such as Ansible, Netmiko/NAPALM, or vendor-specific APIs.
- Working knowledge of event-driven integration using Kafka and Protobuf, AWS fundamentals, FCAPS concepts, and alarm and fault management models such as ITU-T X.733.
- Practical experience instrumenting automation with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or equivalent tools.
- English proficiency at B2 level or above and the ability to collaborate with globally distributed peers and architects.
- Ability to take end-to-end ownership of automation from design through live operation and exercise sound judgment about where human decisions are required.
Benefits
- The role supports work in a standard office or remote home-office environment.
- Occasional after-hours incident response participation is required.
- The employer provides an equal opportunity, at-will employment environment.
Tech Stack
About AST SpaceMobile
AST SpaceMobile builds a space-based cellular broadband network that connects directly to standard smartphones, selling capacity to mobile network operators and government users. The public company, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Midland, Texas, trades on NASDAQ. It has demonstrated direct 4G/5G voice and data links from its BlueWalker 3 test satellite and is developing commercial satellites to extend coverage to remote and underserved areas.