OSS Automation Engineers

Position Overview

We are seeking an OSS Automation Engineer to join the Latvia Design Center as the primary owner of network and ground-segment lifecycle automation. This role builds and operates the production automation that executes real operational processes: zero-touch provisioning, site and service acceptance before commercial traffic is enabled, in-service configuration management and drift detection, and fault/alarm handling. A defining characteristic of this role is bridging with automation operational domains that today depend on manual coordination between teams and systems.

Key Responsibilities:

Build, develop and deploy AST’s internal automation processes within AST OSS platform – provisioning automation, configuration management, fault & alarm handling automation, cross domain orchestration and integration

Translate architectural specifications, interface control documents (ICDs), and functional & non-functional requirements into clean, well-tested, production-ready code

Write modular, maintainable software following team coding standards, with appropriate documentation and code comments

Implement and maintain integration tests, regression suites, and performance benchmarks for the developed software components

Participate in design and code reviews, providing and receiving constructive technical feedback

Support system-level integration testing ensuring delivered software meets acceptance criteria

Work within the team’s agile delivery process: contribute to sprint planning, maintain backlog hygiene, and deliver consistently against milestone commitments

Maintain technical documentation: component specifications, API contracts, test results, and runbooks

Engage with other internal teams to clarify requirements, validate assumptions, and ensure delivered software meets operational needs

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience.

Experience:

A minimum of 3+ years of professional experience in network or business process automation, or a combined network/software engineering role in live-network operational environment.

Proven experience building production automation/orchestration workflows that execute real operational processes, not just test or CI/CD automation

Hands-on experience with at least one of Temporal, Apache Airflow, or AWS Step Functions for sequencing multi-step, stateful, or long-running workflows

Strong proficiency in Python or Go for automation and integration logic

Experience with network configuration automation tooling (e.g. Ansible, Netmiko/NAPALM, or vendor-specific APIs)

Working knowledge of event-driven integration via Kafka/Protobuf

Working knowledge of AWS fundamentals (compute, networking, VPN/Transit Gateway, managed streaming)

Understanding of FCAPS concepts and alarm/fault management models (e.g. ITU-T X.733)

Practical experience instrumenting automation with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or equivalent

English proficiency at B2 level or above; able to collaborate effectively with peers and architects in a globally distributed team

Soft Skills:

Bridge-builder mindset - comfortable being the person who turns a process that spans three teams' systems into a single governed pipeline

High ownership - takes end-to-end accountability for automation from design through live operation, including what happens when it fails

Sound judgment on automation boundaries - knows which operational decisions genuinely need a human and which don’t, rather than automating everything indiscriminately

Rigorous but pragmatic - applies the same discipline to acceptance/go-live automation as to a live network incident, since both carry real consequences

Technology Stack:

AWS Step Functions, Temporal, Apache Airflow

Python or Go

Ansible, Netmiko/NAPALM, vendor-specific network APIs

REST, gRPC, TMF Open APIs

Kafka/Protobuf (AWS MSK)

OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana

AWS (EC2, Lambda, Step Functions, MSK, VPN/Transit Gateway)

Git, Azure DevOps CI

Jira, Confluence

Markdown, Mermaid, PlantUML

Physical Requirements

Ability to work in a standard office or remote home-office environment and use a computer for extended periods

Ability to participate in occasional after-hours incident response actions

This job description may not be inclusive to the duties and responsibilities listed. Additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time or the scope of the job may change as needed by business demands.