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AST SpaceMobile and our global partners are building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones. Called SpaceMobile, this ultra-powerful network is being designed to provide connectivity at 4G/5G speeds everywhere on the planet – on land, at sea and in flight.
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
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
- 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.
AST SpaceMobile is an Equal Opportunity, at will Employer; employment is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
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