About this opportunity:
We are seeking a Packet Core & Cloud Infrastructure Expert to design, deploy, and operate telecom packet core systems on virtualized and cloud-native infrastructures. You will bridge telecom core network expertise with cloud platform operations, ensuring resilient, scalable, and high-performing environments for 4G and 5G services.
What you will do:
- Design and manage cloud infrastructure supporting packet core systems
- Deploy and support virtualized and cloud-native network functions on OpenStack and Kubernetes
- Oversee infrastructure lifecycle: installation, upgrades, patching, and scaling
- Ensure high availability, redundancy, and disaster recovery readiness
- Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization
- Lead troubleshooting across network, compute, storage, and virtualization layers
- Support integration of core network nodes
- Drive automation through DevOps practices and Infrastructure as Code
- Monitor systems using industry standard tools
- Ensure security, hardening, and compliance standards
- Collaborate with vendors, radio access network, transport, and IT teams
- Manage incidents, root cause analysis, and escalations
The skill you bring:
- Deep knowledge of cellular network core architectures and signaling protocols
- Hands-on experience with OpenStack and Kubernetes environments
- Strong expertise in cloud compute, storage, and networking
- Proven troubleshooting skills across infrastructure layers
- Experience in 24/7 production-critical environments
- Expertise in high availability design and disaster recovery
- Security hardening and compliance knowledge
- Strong leadership and team collaboration skills
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 6+ years in telecom core networks and cloud infrastructure
- Proficiency with OpenStack and/or Kubernetes
Preferred:
- Cloud or container orchestration certifications
- Ericsson telco cloud platform experience
- 5G deployment exposure
- Large-scale production environment experience
Why join Ericsson?At Ericsson, you'll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what's possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world's toughest problems. You'll be challenged, but you won't be alone. You'll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
What happens once you apply? Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.
Primary country and city: Nigeria (NG) || Lagos
Req ID: 788174
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 6+ years in telecom core networks and cloud infrastructure
- Deep knowledge of cellular network core architectures and signaling protocols
- Hands-on experience with OpenStack and Kubernetes environments
- Strong expertise in cloud compute, storage, and networking
- Proven troubleshooting skills across infrastructure layers
- Experience in 24/7 production-critical environments
- Expertise in high availability design and disaster recovery
- Security hardening and compliance knowledge
- Strong leadership and team collaboration skills
- Cloud or container orchestration certifications
- Ericsson telco cloud platform experience
- 5G deployment exposure
- Large-scale production environment experience
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Ericsson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage options are described as broad, with multiple medical plan choices (often three) plus dental and mental health resources. U.S. materials also reference PPO and HDHP options, and some teams contribute to HSAs.
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Retirement Support — U.S. postings outline a 401(k) with an automatic 3% company contribution plus matching that reaches 4% when employees contribute 5%. This combination is repeatedly listed in role postings and characterized as strong for the sector.
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Parental & Family Support — U.S. job descriptions frequently cite up to 16 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid parental/adoption leave at 100% pay. These benefits are positioned as exceeding many U.S. corporate policies.
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What We Do
Ericsson builds the digital connectivity the world relies on. Our technology underpins the mobile networks, platforms, and systems that billions of people, businesses, and societies depend on every day. We are a global leader in communications technology, delivering mobile network infrastructure, cloud software, and wireless connectivity solutions for service providers and enterprises worldwide. Our networks support connectivity across 180+ countries, helping power everyday communication as well as critical digital services at global scale. Connectivity has evolved far beyond consumer mobile use. Today, nearly 80% of the world’s population accesses the internet via mobile networks, and Ericsson is helping shape what comes next. We are advancing 5G and 5G Advanced, developing network APIs that open connectivity to the global developer ecosystem, and applying automation and AI to make networks more intelligent, efficient, and resilient. Ericsson was the first company to launch live 5G networks on five continents, and our 5G platform is now commercially live in 150+ networks across 60+ countries. We also support more than 36,000 enterprise customers, enabling secure, high-performance connectivity for industries such as manufacturing, aviation, logistics, utilities, and public safety, where reliability and performance are mission critical. Innovation is central to how we work. Ericsson has approximately 28,000 employees in research and development, backed by one of the strongest intellectual property portfolios in the industry with 60,000+ granted patents. Our engineers, researchers, and technologists work across 100+ global R&D sites, helping define how networks evolve and how digital infrastructure is built for the long term. As the world moves toward a mobile-first, AI-powered, and cloud-driven future, connectivity becomes the foundation for digital transformation across every industry. Ericsson is building that foundation, shaping the future of digital connectivity through technology that operates at global scale and supports real-world impact, today and for what comes next.
Why Work With Us
Ericsson is a place for people who want to work on technology that powers everyday life. You’ll contribute to large-scale systems used every day, tackle complex challenges in live environments, and keep developing your skills and career in your own vision.
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