About This Opportunity

At Ericsson, we are on a mission to continuously reinvent ourselves enabling connectivity and digital transformation at a global scale. We are looking for a skilled Cloud Native Infrastructure (CNIS) Engineer with deep hands-on expertise across cloud-native platforms, software-defined infrastructure, enterprise networking, and Linux systems administration.

This role places you at the heart of Ericsson's cloud infrastructure delivery, working with industry-leading technologies that power telecom and enterprise environments worldwide.

What you will do:

- End-to-end administration and operations of Ericsson CNIS platforms including Kubernetes, container runtimes, and cloud-native infrastructure components
- Manage and optimize Ericsson Cloud Container Distribution (CCD), covering provisioning, upgrades, backup/restore, lifecycle management, and disaster recovery readiness
- Perform CCD health checks, configuration drift analysis, capacity tracking, and workplace validation across clusters
- Work closely with application and platform teams to onboard workloads and provide CCD-level support
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices using Ansible for automation of CNIS and CCD tasks
- Monitor system performance and availability using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and related observability platforms
- Ensure compliance with security, governance, and operational policies
- Participate in and lead DR planning, execution, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of major incidents
- Maintain detailed runbooks,



Method of Procedures (MOPs), and CNIS documentation for operational readiness

The skills you bring:

- Hands-on experience with Calico, Multus, CNI plugins, Ceph (SDS), and CSI drivers
- Compute host-level cluster configuration, SDI health monitoring, and bottleneck resolution
- Working knowledge of SDN concepts, service chaining, and programmable infrastructure
- Strong troubleshooting experience across CNIS components
- Hands-on experience with Juniper and Extreme Networks switching platforms
- Configuration of VLANs, trunking, port profiles, and ACLs
- Border leaf switch management, firmware upgrades, backup/restore, and fault troubleshooting
- Understanding of SDN integration with container networking layers including Calico
- Traffic filtering, network isolation, and multi-tenant CNIS network architecture
- Performance analysis, switch stacking, component replacement, and chassis management
- Advanced RHEL administration including LVM, MPIO, cluster configurations, and OS tuning
- Patch management, firmware upgrades, backup/recovery scheduling and validation
- Performance troubleshooting, kernel-level analysis, and log auditing
- SAN topology, host-side storage integration, and network storage troubleshooting
- Hardware troubleshooting on HP ProLiant and Dell PowerEdge servers
- Solid knowledge of ITIL processes incident, problem, and change management
- Ability to lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for major CNIS, network, and infrastructure incidents.

📌 Cloud System Expert - CNIS (Telangana)
🏢 Ericsson
📍 Telangana