Job Description

Job Category: Client Consulting
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As a Lead Consultant, you will define and drive end-to-end automation strategies for 5G Core and IMS functions, ensuring alignment with industry standards like ETSI MANO, TMF, and 3GPP. You will take ownership of lifecycle automation-designing workflows for deployment, scaling, healing, and upgrades of cloud-native functions-while enabling CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code practices across Kubernetes-based platforms. In this role, you will also integrate automation with OSS/BSS systems, design testing frameworks, and strengthen operational resilience through observability and health checks. Beyond technology, you will mentor teams, collaborate with CSPs and vendors, and champion cloud-native best practices to modernize telco core operations.
Responsibilities:

• Define and lead automation strategies for lifecycle management (LCM) of IMS and 5G Core functions, ensuring alignment with industry standards (ETSI MANO, 3GPP, TMF).
• Architect scalable, reusable automation frameworks and drive adoption of GitOps and zero-touch cloud-native operations.
• Automate deployment, configuration, scaling, upgrades, rollback, and healing of CNFs across Kubernetes-based telecom cloud platforms.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD) and IaC modules (Ansible, Helm, Terraform) to streamline CNF onboarding and infrastructure provisioning.
• Design and integrate automated testing frameworks (Robot Framework, PyTest, custom tools) into CI/CD processes for end-to-end validation, monitoring, and health checks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, partners, and AI/ML experts to drive innovation, enhance resilience, and continuously improve automation practices

Qualifications:
You Have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (preferred) with 12+ years of telecom automation experience, with deep expertise in IMS (SIP, Diameter) and 5G Core functions (AMF, SMF, UPF, PCF, UDM, NRF), along with OSS/BSS ecosystem knowledge.
• You have strong cloud-native and containerization skills in Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, or Wind River Cloud, with hands-on experience in multi-cloud and CNF lifecycle automation.
• You are proficient in automation tooling and CI/CD practices, including Ansible, Helm, Terraform, Robot, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and ArgoCD, combined with programming in Python or Bash.
• You excel in automation testing and observability, with experience building frameworks (Robot, PyTest), integrating monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK), and applying Day 0/1/2 automation workflows.
• You demonstrate leadership, collaboration, and agility, guiding teams, influencing technical decisions, and staying ahead with emerging practices like GitOps, AI/ML-driven automation, and security automation

It would be nice if you also have:

• Knowledge with industry standards and frameworks (TM Forum Open APIs, eTOM)
• CKA/CKAD, Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Automation, AWS/Azure cloud certifications

About Us:
Come create the technology that helps the world act together
Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people's lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.
We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work
What we offer
Nokia offers continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.
Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer
Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

• One of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people. Nokia's employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.
Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.
About the Team: As Nokia's growth engine, we create value for communication service providers and enterprise customers by leading the transition to cloud-native software and as-a-service delivery models. Our inclusive team of dreamers, doers and disruptors push the limits from impossible to possible.

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