Senior Solution Integration Engineer
Optiva Inc.3 days ago
United Kingdom (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Deploy, integrate, configure, and test complex BSS architectures and GSM-R-specific services across cloud-native, hybrid, VM, and bare-metal environments.
- Configure and validate interfaces with surrounding systems, including signaling systems and web APIs.
- Build and maintain container images, Helm charts, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD or GitOps deployment pipelines.
- Plan and execute migrations, cutovers, rollback strategies, and data migration from legacy to cloud-native or hybrid platforms.
- Support operational launches through observability, runbooks, monitoring, logging, alerting, and handover to customer operations.
- Perform functional, non-functional, performance, high-availability, failover, disaster-recovery, and test-automation activities.
- Troubleshoot application, container, platform, network, and cloud infrastructure issues with customers, third parties, cloud providers, and security teams.
- Contribute to technical documentation, deployment standards, and team knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of work experience with telecommunications products and services.
- Hands-on experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Bash, and Python; Perl experience is a plus.
- Experience deploying and operating containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes; OpenShift and Helm experience are preferred.
- Working knowledge of at least one cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or an equivalent private cloud, including cloud networking, storage, and security basics.
- Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, Ansible, or Terraform.
- Experience with telecom BSS solution deployment and integration and an understanding of systems integration business practices.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, problem-solving, organizational, communication, customer-focus, and presentation skills.
- Fluent written and spoken English and the ability to work proactively with minimal supervision.
- Preferred experience includes OpenShift operators, GitOps, service mesh, ingress configuration, GSM networks, SS7/SIGTRAN, Diameter, HTTP(S), TLS, REST/SOAP services, observability stacks, cloud security, resilient cloud architectures, SQL, cloud-native data stores, test automation, and network equipment configuration.
- Knowledge of Optiva Railway or OCE products, GSM-R standards and fundamentals, and the evolution toward FRMCS is advantageous.
- Right to work in the EU/EEA or UK and lawful residence in an EU or NATO country are required.
Benefits
- Approximately 10–20% travel throughout the year to customer sites and cutover windows.
- Flexibility to work around planned maintenance windows and go-live events within agreed working-time rules.
- Opportunity to work on critical railway communications infrastructure and complex telecommunications integration projects in a global team.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Optiva Inc.
Optiva builds cloud-native BSS and revenue management software for communications service providers, including real-time charging, billing, and customer management deployed on public or private clouds. It sells enterprise software and managed services that help operators monetize 5G, IoT, and digital offerings. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Optiva is a public company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: OPT).