At Bell, our purpose is to advance how Canadians connect with each other and the world. We achieve this by providing consumers and businesses with the best network technologies in the world, innovative digital solutions and seamless customer experiences. It’s all developed and delivered by the members of #TeamBell and we’re always on the lookout for people with great skills and experiences. 

We value diversity and provide a supportive, inclusive community where all team members can succeed. And through our commitment to environmental, social and governance initiatives, you will feel good about the greater impact you will have – making every day better for people as they connect, work, learn and play. 

Join us. You belong at Bell. 

Be at the forefront of shaping the best digital connections and next-generation technology in Canada. You’ll join the largest, award-winning, high-tech team in our country, working with the brightest minds across many industries. 

Bring your ideas and skills as we grow cutting-edge fibre and 5G networks, develop advanced products and services to run on these networks and then enable the delivery of content from our top media properties and services – ensuring that our customers can stay entertained and connected anytime, anywhere. 

Summary

Software. Our team is truly committed to best practices software development. Working with us, you will have the opportunity to use the latest software ecosystem (including open-source software) and to contribute upstream to them Community. Ours is awesome. You will interact with developers co-located in an Agile environment, work in an open space and be part of a global open source community 

DevOps. We are committed to our practices and tools - CI/CD, containers, micro-services Networking. You will shape and develop our core platform designed to automate our SDN (Software-Defined-Networking) and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) self-driving network in real-time. 

Technology. You will deal with a variety of cutting edge Software and Networking technologies that will shape how Bell will transform how networks are build and operated.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and help improving software engineering practices across multiple software development teams. Embody and advocate a culture of quality code development
• Code & Learn. Sharpen your software development skills with the latest open source technologies, with access to vast resources and without limitations. 
• Develop complex solutions. Drive SDN and NFV innovation within Bell and in the industry
• Openly expose problems and turn them into learning and team bonding experience
• Put the interest of the team first

Critical Qualifications

• A candidate with 8-10 years of software full stack development expertise; but if you think you can step up to the challenge you should apply!
• Someone who is familiar with the best software development practices (CI/CD, code review, testing)
• Hands-on DevOps experience (Gerritt, Jenkins, jira)
• Develop new software and improve the performance of existing software
• Solid expertise in software debugging and root cause analysis
• Experience with GO and Python
• Hands-on experience with 
• JSON schema and Rest/RestConf API development
• grpc, gnmi, Netconf, SNMP, and WebSocket
• Linux (KVM, OpenStack, RHEL, Ubuntu) application deployment
• Data model, Yang, YAML, MongoDB, MariaDB, HA proxy, Kafka, and Kubernetes
• Someone enthusiastic who can quickly learn and adapt to new technologies, with a strong aptitude for innovation
• Someone who can slice and dice a business/system problem into an easy modular and maintainable solution with your team
• A team player who can define, establish and communicate their long term vision, who is adaptable to uncertain and changing needs
• A candidate with strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills (A good sense of humour is a bonus!)

Preferred Qualifications

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• You have experience in SDN ecosystem development and vendor management
• You are familiar with L2/L3 networking stack and protocols
• You have hands-on experience with cloud (specifically GCP: google cloud platform)
• You have experience contributing to open-source projects
• French/English bilingual