Role purpose: 

Within the world of Telco, technology is a key enabler. A consistent part of Vodafone’s success is 
based on the implementation and delivery of advanced and innovative services to its internal and 
external customers. We are developing global Automation Solutions to increase the 
programmability of our Private Cloud Infrastructure and have an exciting opportunity for a Software 
Engineer to join our new team.

Core Responsibilities

• Setup Cloud Infrastructure for new services/applications as per requirement.
• Develop Infrastructure, VNF, and CNF automation applications as per requirement using Jenkins, Ansible & Terraform.
• Working on setting up end-to-end CI/CD pipeline for automation application using Jenkins, GIT, Maven, and Jfrog.
• Develop software for provisioning the Vmware private cloud stack, server profile, and iLO configuration for servers. 
• Develop software for automating the network configurations such as configuring VLAN, trunk, etherchannel and L3 VPN.
• Design, develop, test and document use cases in a multi-vendor environement
• Support analysis, testing and Implementation of new technology both on Vodafone Markets and Group Functions managed Networks.
• Participate in Agile projects building the required solutions.
• Support through Cost/Benefit exercise strategic decision on private cloud & network.
• Responsible for leading the requirement definition, user epic, story definition and prepare the relevant effort estimation and project plan.
• Responsible for providing RFQ/RFP requirements for evaluate technical solution responses.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Application design in line with industry best practices 
• Full stack software development using modern technologies
• Contribute to the definition of product roadmap /backlog
• Support product owners to define framework / technologies / languages to be used in automation
• Contribute to the overall Automation Use Cases definition and roadmap.
• Continuous improvement of development processes

Must have technical / professional qualifications, knowledge and experience in network technologies: 

• 5 years Experience as a SW developer and microservices development with Python and Flask/Django.
• Experience in cloud technologies like GCP, Vmware, Kubernetes with knowledge of Network Function Virtualization & Software Defined Networking (SDN).
• Experience in automation technologies like Jenkins, Maven, Ant, Junit, Jmeter etc.
• Experience in various software provisioning tools like Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet etc.
• Experience with continuous delivery of Applications to App servers Tomcat, Weblogic, Websphere.
• Ability to build deployment, build scripts and automated solutions using shell scripting & python.
• Sw engineering best practices, such as in-line documentation, linting, structured code, and ObjectOriented Programming.
• Experience of working with an agile methodology.
• Cloud certification (like CKA or equivalent).

Preferred core competencies and skills:

• Act as a team player 
• Self-Starter with plenty of drive to push barriers and a pragmatic approach to get the job done 
• Optimum communication skills 
• Cultural awareness
• Willingness to face and overcome challenges in a highly-qualified international environment.

Nice to have technical / professional qualifications: 

• Knowledge of visualization tools like Prometheus, Grafana.
• Knowledge of network technologies including TCP/IP, HTTPs, SMPP, SSL, JSON, YAML etc.
• Knowledge on DHCP, DNS, SNMP and RAID Levels.
• Experience with cloud architectures.
• Experience working with SonarQube, a code quality control.

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