Edge & Certification Designer

About the role

The Edge & Certification Designer will support the Edge & Certification Section Manager in designing, modernising and expanding edge cloud infrastructure for mobile, fixed voice, data services and other telco workloads. The role ensures capacity, performance and automation across cloud platforms while aligning with emerging 5G and private network technologies.

Key responsibilities

• Design future and existing edge cloud and certification infrastructure to host telco services and VAS.
• Drive transformation, modernisation and migration of edge services in line with industry evolution.
• Manage capacity and performance expansions for edge components.
• Collaborate with business units to prioritise demand, define technical solutions and budgets.
• Lead translation of deployment plans into detailed design activities and Method of Procedure documents.
• Prepare and evaluate RFX/RFI/RFP/RFQ processes for infrastructure procurement.
• Support network architecture evolution, 5G standalone core, private networks and edge use cases.
• Design business continuity, resilience and disaster‑recovery plans.
• Oversee design of infrastructure, hypervisor, VIM, VNFMs, CNFMs, NFVO, SDN, WAN, load balancers and automation tools.
• Conduct POCs, validate vendor solutions and ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Telecommunications.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise IT and telecommunications.
• Proven expertise in edge cloud design, capacity management and network virtualization.
• Strong knowledge of 5G, private networks and cloud automation.

Required skills

• Edge cloud architecture
• 5G standalone core
• Private network design
• Capacity management
• Cloud automation
• Hypervisor technologies
• Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM)
• Virtual Network Function Managers (VNFMs)
• Container Network Function Managers (CNFMs)
• Network Functions Virtualisation Orchestrator (NFVO)
• Software‑Defined Networking (SDN)
• WAN solutions
• Load balancers
• MANO components
• Cybersecurity and data‑protection requirements