Job Description

Our client, a leading software and services provider to the world\'s largest communications companies is looking to hire a Software Engineer (Java/Python) to join their team in Canada.

**This opening is a 6-month long contract to Hire. **

Job Title: Software Engineer (Java/Python)

Location: Remote, Canada EST

Length of Contract: Contract to Hire (6 months)

What You Will Be Doing

You will serve as the Software Engineer for a team developing 5G RAN software on the Open Networks Automation Platform (ONAP), contributing through your agile and software development expertise while collaborating directly with a top client in the industry. This is your opportunity to join a team developing software for the industries next gen, 5G wireless networks.

Role/Responsibilities:

• You will be a key technical contributor, owning stories and designing, developing, and supporting software code
• You will work with software engineers and other architects to define and refine the solution to align with the business, development, deployment, and maintenance needs.
• You will research, evaluate, and prototype new methodologies, technologies, and products, you will propose and follow through with improvements in processes and tools.

Requirements:

• 3+ years software engineering and development expertise
• 2+ Java experience
• Knowledge of Python and container environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience working in DevOps, CI/CD environments
• Exposure to cloud native and micro-services software architecture (and RESTful APIs)
• Experience in agile/scrum environment, exposure working on brand new greenfield application from ground up

Nice to have/Bonus:

• Understanding of networking, and have experience with networking software, protocols or models (e.g. ONAP, Openstack, YANG, TOSCA, HEAT, Netconf, SNMP, CLI, BGP)
• Cloud AWS environments
• Experience with ELK - elastic search, Kibana, DevOps, CI/CD, Gitlab, Kafka
• Kotlin, Scripting, Scala, and Groovy is a plus.
• Strong understanding of 5G networks; RAN experience a bonus!
• Telecom industry experience and/or consulting background interfacing with external clients

Rough breakdown of hands-on dev skills/languages --these are only estimates and may fluctuate depending on dev cycle:

• Java 40% daily
• Python 30% weekly
• Kotlin 10% weekly
• CI/CD \xe2\x80\x93 MS, K8S \xe2\x80\x93 20% weekly

***Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the Canada on a full-time basis now and in the future***

Motion Recruitment