4 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the architectural vision, roadmap, and technology strategy for a cloud-native observability platform supporting 4G/5G Core Networks.
- Design scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available solutions using Kubernetes, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native technologies.
- Evaluate technologies, architecture patterns, and platform capabilities and provide recommendations for technology adoption and investment.
- Lead architecture reviews and critical design decisions aligned with business, product, operational, and platform-evolution goals.
- Advance observability, OAM/FCAPS, analytics, and operational automation for network visibility and efficiency.
- Solve system-level performance, scalability, reliability, and production-deployment challenges across application, platform, and infrastructure layers.
- Partner with customers, Product Management, Operations, and Engineering to translate requirements into solutions and customer outcomes.
- Mentor engineering teams, establish architectural governance and best practices, and drive technical excellence.
Requirements
- An engineering degree or equivalent, with 15+ years of experience in telecom, cloud-native platforms, and large-scale production environments.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including CRDs, Operators, and Controllers, as well as OpenShift, microservices, distributed systems, and platform engineering.
- Strong expertise in OAM/FCAPS, 4G/5G Core Networks, Network Functions, SNMP, and 3GPP standards.
- Hands-on experience with high-scale data ingestion, ETL, event-driven and streaming architectures, and analytics using Kafka, ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics, MariaDB, and data lakes.
- Strong knowledge of OpenTelemetry, OTLP, OpAMP, PromQL/VMQL, metrics, logs, traces, correlation, automated RCA, anomaly detection, and operational analytics.
- Experience designing highly available, scalable, resilient, secure, and multi-tenant platforms, including Kubernetes operations, automation, IaC, CI/CD, and cloud-native security.
- Experience driving technology strategy, architecture governance, platform evolution, and AI/Agentic AI adoption is preferred.
- Experience partnering with customers, product, engineering, and executive stakeholders and enabling teams through architectural guidance is preferred.
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About Infinera
Infinera builds optical networking systems and coherent optical engines, plus automation software and services, for telecom carriers, cloud and data center operators, cable/MSOs, and enterprises. The company designs and manufactures advanced optical semiconductors and pluggable modules for metro, long‑haul, and submarine transport networks. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Infinera is now part of Nokia after operating as a NASDAQ‑listed public company.