Cloud & Compute Research Engineer

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In short

Ericsson is seeking a Cloud & Compute Research Engineer to operate and evolve their OpenStack cloud environment, contributing to research in cloud architectures, virtualization, and AIOps. The role involves troubleshooting distributed systems, designing prototypes, and collaborating on scientific publications.

Responsibilities

Operate and evolve the OpenStack cloud and compute environment used by Ericsson and academic researchers.
Troubleshoot complex distributed systems, investigate root causes, and help ensure reliable services.
Design, prototype and evaluate system concepts, software execution environments, performance and reliability.
Contribute to and drive research studies in compute systems, cloud architectures, virtualization and AIOps, including collaboration on scientific publications.
Automate repetitive tasks, improve workflows and scale infrastructure; work across operations, engineering and research to turn practical challenges into real-world solutions.

Requirements

A research-oriented degree, such as a Ph.D., or equivalent experience in a research-intensive role.
Demonstrated research contribution in compute, cloud virtualization or software systems, for example through publications, patents, technical reports or working prototypes.
Hands-on Linux administration and systems engineering experience, with a solid understanding of cloud technologies, Kubernetes, data-center operations and networking fundamentals.
Experience with containers (Docker or Podman) and orchestration with Kubernetes.
Ability to research, instrument and maintain compute environments with AI capabilities supporting workflows, monitoring and intelligent observability.
A hands-on “doer” mindset; analytical and scientific curiosity; strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis; and a drive to automate and improve workflows.
Strong collaboration skills across operational, engineering and research teams.

Desired Qualifications

It is an advantage to bring or develop skills in Ansible, Terraform or Helm; advanced OpenStack operations; HPC or accelerators (GPUs, DPUs or FPGAs); and research collaboration or patenting processes.

Benefits

Outstanding opportunity to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Challenged but not alone, joining a team of diverse innovators.
Opportunity to craft what comes next.
Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values.
Championing diversity and inclusion in everything we do.
Belief that collaborating with people with different experiences drives innovation.
Encouraging people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential.
Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Skills

LinuxCloud TechnologiesKubernetesData Center OperationsNetworkingContainersDockerPodmanAIAnsibleTerraformHelmOpenStackHPCGPUsDPUsFPGAs

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