Principal Software Engineer (Telco Solution Architect)

Red Hat Engineering is seeking a passionate and experienced Principle Technical Solution Architect to drive the future of telecommunications. In this pivotal role, you'll be instrumental in working with the NEP partners to develop cutting-edge platform reference architectures leveraging Red Hat's Telco 5G product offerings. You'll contribute to an industry-leading team, shaping the Kubernetes ecosystem for advanced RAN use cases for 5G, 6G and AI telecommunication networks. This is a unique opportunity to be embedded directly with a leading Telco partner in the vibrant Seoul area, acting as Red Hat's key representative. You'll collaborate globally with diverse Red Hat engineering and Product Management teams, as well as open source communities, making a significant impact on worldwide telecommunication infrastructure. We're looking for someone driven by curiosity, passionate about problem-solving, and possessing a strong background in Telco technologies, AI, Linux, Kubernetes, and open source. What You'll Do Innovate & Design: Collaborate closely with Telco partners to create, review, prototype, and validate groundbreaking designs and enhancement proposals. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for AI integration, driving continuous improvement and innovation in engineering practices Architect: Develop architectural design with NEP partners, drive adoption of the latest Red Hat functionality into these architectural designs, delivering solution blueprints of these designs and aligning them to Red Hat best practices for the OpenShift platform. Accelerate Containerization: Partner with Telco companies to accelerate the containerization of their workload offerings and seamlessly integrate them with the Red Hat OpenShift platform, ensuring unparalleled functionality, performance, and reliability for Tier-1 and Tier-2 5G/6G networks worldwide. Champion Best Practices: Actively advocate for robust certification and continuous integration (CI) processes with Telco partners. Promote Key Technologies: Champion the Red Hat Telco stack, including universal base images (UBI), Red Hat Enterprise Data Plane Development Kit (RHEL DPDK), the OpenShift Operator Framework, Advanced Cluster Management, and Advanced Cluster Security, etc. Voice of Engineering: Establish long-term technical relationships with key Telco partners, gathering and analyzing partner requirements and use cases to deliver meaningful business outcomes. Be the voice of Red Hat engineering in partners engagement , shaping up requirements for Red Hat product teams and driving recommended and supportable ways to utilize Red Hat technologies. Strategic Collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with project managers, product managers, and engineering teams to establish predictable schedules for critical partner deliverables. Share & Mentor: Contribute to the team's collective success by generously sharing your work and expertise. Mentor and educate junior-level team members, fostering a culture of growth and openness. Amplify Our Impact: Publicize the team's achievements through engaging blogs, web postings, and impactful conference presentations. What You'll Bring Kubernetes/OpenShift Mastery: 5 years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes and/or OpenShift technologies. Exceptional Partner Management: Demonstrated skills and experience in managing partners and customers. Architecture & Configuration Expertise: Proven hands-on skills in developing reference architectures and validated configurations from conception to delivery. Networking Acumen: Strong experience with networking technology (server, switch, or appliance configuration), key networking protocols, tunneling technologies, switching, and routing. Linux Proficiency: Proficient in Linux operation and administration, and how Open source communities work. AI Tooling Savvy: Demonstrated proficiency in leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and tools like Google Gemini, Cursor, Claude ... (truncated, view full listing at source)