Remote contract role in the capacity of Ansible expert to:+ Update and enhance VyOS OS existing Ansible collection+ Troubleshoot issues with roles and modules+ Contribute to developing an open-source project (https://github.com/vyos/vyos.vyos)+ Create custom modules for Ansible using Python

Scope of responsibilities is based on a current project, which may include but is not limited to:+ Enhance systems to meet business requirements. + Maintain applications and infrastructures according to service level agreements. + Define and review technical requirements for integration, performance, quality, and scalability. + Manage IaaS capacity with cloud operations teams and track associated KPIs.+ Establish and facilitate CI/CD best practices, cloud/container-based orchestration. + Develop scripts, pipelines and jobs need for deployment in cloud.+ Focus on continuous deployment and delivery cycle, helping teams and organizations provide agility and business-value. + Build automation+ Setup automated code analysis

Unique and fascinating remote contract role in a famous company with a focus on:+ Building and managing infrastructure (KVM, Puppet, Ansible, ArgoCD, AWX, ELK, Datadog, vector.dev, HC Vault, Puppet Hiera)+ On-call support of mission critical services (PHP-FPM, NGINX, Redis)+ UNIX/Linux inside-out system administration (FreeBSD, CentOS, Oracle Linux)+ Managing Cloud/Kubernetes ecosystems.+ Participating in building a multi regional resilient system capable of handling millions of games each day along with tons of additional services.+ Supporting stability and performance of the hybrid environments: bare-metal datacenter hosted with GCP for micro-services and scaling.

A remote part-time role to automate data processing tasks.

A challenging and sought-after role in hybrid cloud deployments and digital transformation domain:+ Improve the reliability of systems in production, responding to incidents, diagnosingissues and working with the group to improve service delivery+ Evolve infrastructure and platform performance monitoring and alerting to alert on pre-outage indicators, instead of on outages+ Document and communicate findings and actions so they become reliably repeatable,automating them wherever possible+ Assist with the development of tender/bid responses, and delivery of projects+ Assist with the management of Infrastructure Services products supporting STREAMS

An exciting role with emerging technologies:+ Create and maintain AWS and Azure resources using CDK, Terraform or Cloudformation + Create and maintain Ansible playbooks for internal and product systems + Create and maintain systems documentation and run-books + Respond to alerts, and resolve or escalate system issues as necessary + Add and configure additional DevOps tools for scanning, logging, testing, etc.

A challenging, all-round position to build competence in cutting edge technologies and digital transformation.- Deploying & configuring RHEL/GNU Linux lab instances- Working with AWS, GCP, OCI, OpenShift products- Contributing in open tech forums, events and workshops;- Analyzing the current trends in digital transformation, pertaining to Cloud Native capabilities, Hybrid Cloud, Edge Computing, Automation, Orchestration, Wired Wireless Convergence;- Polishing skills in automated deployments and technical architectures with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Terraform, KVM/QEMU.

A senior technical role in Wireless Packet Core domain- Supervised and performed activities for Wireless Core systems;- Participated in a number of mission critical roll-outs (5G, Ericsson NFVi, Core Network VNFs);- Prepared and run the budget estimates, project spend profiles, change implementation plans, Jira documentation;- Contributed to signalling network re-architecture, silos reduction, migration of hosted services, legacy nodes decommissioning- Liaised with key stakeholders, Enterprise/Technical review boards, multi-disciplinary engineering teams, and vendor representative to ensure timely and efficient delivery of planned changesAccomplished:- Ensured sustainability of the HLR-FE National Pool by organising and coordinating the accelerated software upgrades with zero traffic impact.- Secured the company’s strategic positions in 5G roll-outs by enabling 5G and VNF support via driving the multi-component upgrades;- Reduced dependency on 3rd party hosted solution by facilitating Telstra M2M services migration;- Improved signalling core network resilience by preparing and implementing production changes;- Optimised the operational burden and boosted effectiveness of core by assessing and simplifying the current architecture.

A senior technical role to ensure quality solutions design and effective services evolution.- Developed and deployed technical solutions for high-traffic, reliable infrastructure and platforms;- Managed engineering activities for reliability, performance and functionality of services;- Performed advanced technical job – server/service design and build, network and capacity planning, platform augmentation, architecture simplification- Led interface development and integration;- Inspired and steered engineering of associated infrastructure for Control Plane.- Owned configuration change management of critical ICT platforms;- Acted as a SME for incident analysis and resolution;- Run regular technical meetings with Engineering, Operations and VendorsAccomplished:- Provided system integrity of NMS (over 3 million subscribers);- Consistently exceeded goals and performance standards by delivering viable and cost-effective solutions to support Telstra products and services (Telstra Air, Telstra HFC, MESH, NBN MTM, Wholesale and Buisness services, Telstra Hybrid, Homeware, SIP Trunking on ASP, NBN+ Speedtests, and more).- Safeguarded corporate brand and reputation during major outages by devising and leading re-mediation actions (received the Director Award).- Enhanced availability and resilience of the platforms by designing and deploying geo-redundant site and distributed firmware delivery services, achieving 99.95% SLA uptime target for NMS.- Laid the basis for future advances by staging and executing multiple Proof-of-Concept and showcase events – XMPP mediation, TR-369/User Services Protocol, TR-157 bulk data collection, Big data processing – Cloudera, Apache Hadoop, Business Intelligence (YellowFinBI)

A senior, challenging role to operate existing and employ new technologies- Designed and implemented high-traffic ISP platforms;- Led development and launch of Production systems, crucial for the NBN Development Program;- Participated in incident management and root case analysis;- Analyzed the Business and Release requirement documentation to produce functional specifications and detailed designs;- Prepared test plans, supervised V&V within UAT, SIT, SVT - Mentored engineering and operations teams within the technology domain;- Prepared technical artefacts on large scale projects including SAD, SDD, Capacity plans, Interface Agreements, SLAs, Operation Manuals.Accomplished:- Guaranteed quality solutions via effective vendor management (2Wire, PACE, ARRIS) and cross-team facilitating workshops and technical sessions.- Successfully delivered high available infrastructure driving Network, Platform, Security, Data model, Integration aspects of from solution architecture design through to the production implementation.- Enriched the product portfolio by implementing new features, such as, Telstra Business Broadband, Next Generation Wireless Link, Home Manager, pre-NBN VOIP / Velocity, automated service provisioning Greenlight - (received the Director award).

Relocated to stregthen a bright and talented engineering team caring of the technology side of business of the major Malta's carriers - Vodafone and GoMobileResponsibilities:- Fulfilled integration projects and ongoing support for NSN Intelligent Network (charge@once, @vantage, @Commander, VoMSXpress) and Prepaid services (PPS7) cluster and O&M for BSS/PS mobile core network (Radio Commander OBR8.5-9/UMR6.5).- Participated in a number of upgrades for HA clustered mission-critical telco system (Solaris, Oracle, Sun Cluster, Sun Storage, brocade, SAN, geo-redundant Vodafone cluster).- Prepared and fulfilled multiple tests (customer acceptance, system regression, etc), delivered technical assistance on performance issues, planning, test-bed configuration for IN/PPS and other Telco Platforms.- Collaborated in use case mapping workshops.- Integrated IP/X25 Q3, CAMEL/CAP interfaces.- Managed Solaris SOE and SDPs.Achievements:- Improved Customer Loyalty Index by providing 24x7 uninterruptible operations of Charging systems due to pro-active maintenance and effective fault handling.- Accelerated launch of new releases by providing technical expertise on stages of task definition, use cases mapping, preparation and commissioning.- Considerably improved company's overall KPIs in terms of Customer feedback and Service Care net sales by providing excellent services.

Responsibilities:- Performed build, integration and deployment for real-time, scalable platforms - Sun midrange/enterprise servers, Sun Storages, fabric switches, RAID/JBOD configurations, Solaris OS, Volume Managers, Oracle Db Server 8i/10g, X25/IP networking.- Prepared and performed multiple upgrade/commissioning projects (Radio Commander OBR7-9/UMR5-6.5, x25/IP Q3, Solstice TMN).- Provided regular and on-call support including troubleshooting, patching, firmware updates, hardware upgrades and configuration changes.- Prepared and fulfilled multiple tests (customer acceptance, fault reproduction, system regression, etc), delivered technical assistance on performance issues, planning, test-bed configuration, validation of software updates.- Performed complex transition upgrades from OBR 7 to 9, UMR 5.0 to 6.5 (Infomodel processing, customer configuration adaptation, etc).Achievements:- Secured customer satisfaction and ensured business repeat for a number of CIS/European operators by accomplishing 10+ successful platforms upgrade/commissioning projects with minimum downtime and good performance.- Reduced the total cost of an upgrade project by circa EUR 15K per project and achieved more than 20% in sustainable time savings by developing and implementing high level scripting automation technologies along with complete remote management and installation solutions.

Technologies: Ericsson CGSN2.2/2.3/SGSN5.5, Gb/Gr/Gi/Gp/Gn, Frame Relay, GRE, Ericsson OSS RC10, MMSC2.5/MIEP, Kannel WAP, Technomen Voice Mail, * Provided OSS operation and maintenance, FM/PM configuration, integration of BSS/CSS/NSS (MSC, BSC, HLR, GSN, SGw) nodes into OSS.* Administered and supported Messaging System platforms including integration and checkout of MMSC and VM, troubleshooting and helpdesk support.* Provided technical support for in-house SMSC. Registered external content providers (over SMPP). Configured to support MMSC operations.* Troubleshooted and provided regular and emergency support, configuration and integration activities for PS core. Performed GRx integrations.* Provided expertise and support on networking issues (OSPF, RIP, RDISC, NTP, DHCP, DNS, SMTP/POP, VPN).* Implemented GTT and IMSI series analysis. Configured and supported E1-based SS7 links including Global Title Translation, IMSI Analysis, MTP/SCCP/TCAP/MAP setting up.