Technical Project Manager-Cloud Infra (MEA Region)

Job Description

In this role, you’ll be working in our Services and Care (S&C) Cloud Domain team to drive infrastructure platform deliveries across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. Your focus will be on Nokia Cloud Platform (NCP) and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), with an emphasis on orchestration, automation, and multi-vendor cloud technologies.

You’ll be working with some of the world’s largest telecommunications providers, where reliability and performance are mission-critical. This is a great opportunity to apply and grow your expertise in cloud technologies, including Nokia Cloud Services (NCS), Kubernetes, OCP, and NCP.

How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn

• Drive the technical management and implementation of cloud infrastructure projects, focusing on Nokia Cloud Platform (NCP), Red Hat OpenShift (OCP), orchestration (Nokia Cloud Operations Manager – NCOM), and automation (Nokia Cloud Deployment – NCD) platforms.
• Oversee all technical project activities, including requirements, architecture, development, integration, and testing (Customer Acceptance Test/ATP), following Nokia's Advanced Integration Methodology (AIM).
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for the customer, with the ability to address issues quickly, engage the right experts, and drive resolutions effectively.
• Secure formal customer sign-off on technical requirements and solution acceptance.
• Provide technical acumen in the Project Turnover to Delivery (PTA) process, reviewing the Statement of Work (SOW), Bill of Materials (BOM), solution architecture, and timelines.
• Identify change request (CR) opportunities, coordinate technical assessment with the solution architect, manage costing, and track execution of approved changes.
  
  

Key Skills And Experience

You have:

• An engineering (or equivalent) degree with 8+ years of experience, including 5+ years of driving and managing technical project deliveries for core telecom networks, with a focus on infrastructure cloud platforms.
• Practical experience in cloud technologies such as Native Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), VMware, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Knowledge of Nokia Cloud Blueprint architecture, Virtual Network Functions (VNF), Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNF), and a solid grasp of multivendor cloud environments to facilitate onboarding and integration tasks.
  
  

It would be nice if you also had:

• Worked with Integrators and Solution Architects across local and global delivery centers, working effectively across cultures, time zones, and flexible working models.
  
  

About Us

Come create the technology that helps the world act together

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work

What we offer

Nokia offers continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

• One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
  
  

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people. Nokia’s employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.

About The Team

As Nokia's growth engine, we create value for communication service providers and enterprise customers by leading the transition to cloud-native software and as-a-service delivery models. Our inclusive team of dreamers, doers and disruptors push the limits from impossible to possible.