**Are you an experienced Core & Cloud Consultant looking for a global role?**
**We are carrying out a global recruitment process for this role.**
**Job Summary**:
We are looking for a highly expert consultant who will be part of the Cloud Transformation Consulting practice within the General Consulting Practice of Ericsson. A highly regarded professional with proven expertise in operating model design for Cloud, with a good understanding of NFV, Cloud Native and SDN technology as well as 5G Core and emerging technology trends. A standout colleague with shown impact on customers.
You will be working with Ericsson colleagues from different business functions and with clients all over the world. These engagements will require you to be perceived by clients and colleagues as highly conscientious and domain credible.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Develop consulting business opportunities around the globe.
- Provide sales support, define consulting approaches according to customer needs and write consulting proposals.
- Engage customers at senior level and provide end-to-end contribution to consulting engagements.
- You will act as a lead delivery resource in consulting projects across the globe.
- Contribute to global go-to-market of consulting value propositions including marketing campaigns in collaboration with marketing and global and local teams.
- Collaborate with consulting teams in Market Areas as well as related Solution Areas.
**Domain Expertise Areas**:
- Cloud transformation challenges and impact, being able to dive into:
- multiple cloud models (telco, private, public), and
- operational stages (build, deployment and life cycle).
- Deep knowledge and exposure to Cloud infrastructure from:
- technology perspective (Openstack/K8s distro, containers, cloud native design), and
- industry standards perspective (ETSI NFV, OPNFV, ONAP).
- Background and experience on at least one of the following network domains: 5G Core, EPC, IMS or UDM.
- Operational exposure to at least one of the following areas: O&M;, NOC or network planning.
- Understanding of telecom industry standards 3GPP.
- Awareness of IT service operation standard processes (ITIL).
**Qualifications**:
- 10+ years of professional experience including proven ability in consultancy type roles selling and delivering consulting projects.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, and a Masters in Engineering and/or Business is a plus.
Location & Travel - Opportunities globally; Expected travel is 50% based on needs of the business.