Career route
How to become a Telco Cloud Engineer
Run the 5G core as software — Kubernetes, the tuned node under a UPF, and changes that ship through GitOps and come back out.
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The route
- 15G Foundation
- 25G Core & E2E Specialist
- 3Telco Cloud: Kubernetes, CNFs & GitOps
- Courses
- 3
- Video
- ~13.1h
- Certificates
- 3
Who takes this route
Core, platform and DevOps engineers who run network functions on Kubernetes.
What you'll be able to do
- Explain why a crashed container heals but a session does not
- Tune a node for a user plane with pinning, HugePages, NUMA, SR-IOV and DPDK
- Take a change through GitOps to a fleet and revert it
The route, in order
3 courses · 22 modules · about 13.1 hours of video, hands-on labs throughout, and a graded exam at the end of each.
1TELCOMA 5G Foundation5G Foundation5G system architectureNSA vs SAService-based architectureCore network functionsBeginner34 lessons~3.3h7 modules
2TELCOMA 5G Core & E2E Specialist5G Core & E2E SpecialistCore call flowsPFCP & the UPF5QI, PCF & chargingNetwork slicingAdvanced38 lessons~5.1h8 modulesBefore this: 5G Foundation, or equivalent; 5G RAN Specialist recommended
3TELCOMA Telco Cloud SpecialistTelco Cloud: Kubernetes, CNFs & GitOpsKubernetes for CNFsStatefulSets & probesCPU pinning & HugePagesNUMA & real-time nodesAdvanced36 lessons~4.7h7 modulesBefore this: Recommended: 5G Foundation; 5G Core & E2E Specialist helps but is not required. Kubernetes itself is taught from the control plane up, with a 5G core as the running example.
What you earn
3 verifiable TELCOMA certificates, one for each course, issued only after you pass its graded exam. Each carries a number and a QR code to a public page an employer can open without an account.
TELCOMA 5G Foundation
TELCOMA 5G Core & E2E Specialist
TELCOMA Telco Cloud Specialist
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