Software Engineer – Perl / Telecom OSS

Equação IT is a company focused on boosting technology and solid solutions through our expert consultants leading a high perspective and adding value to our customers with the purpose of providing optimization and business growth to our partners.

We're looking for a Software Engineer with strong Perl skills and hands-on experience in telecom OSS environments. You'll work on backend systems that support network operations — building, maintaining, and improving the software that keeps networks running.

English - B2;

Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain backend OSS applications and automation tools using Perl;
• Build and integrate interfaces with network elements, mediation systems, and OSS/BSS platforms;
• Design and implement solutions for network inventory, provisioning, fault management, and service activation;
• Work with network data — processing, transforming, and routing high-volume feeds from network elements;
• Collaborate with network engineers and architects to translate operational requirements into software solutions;
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in production OSS environments;
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices;

Requirements
• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience with Perl as a core skill;
• Hands-on experience in a telecom OSS context — network inventory, fault management, provisioning, or data mediation;
• Familiarity with telecom protocols and standards such as SNMP, SOAP/XML, TL1, or NETCONF/YANG;
• Experience integrating with NMS/EMS systems or network element APIs;
• Solid SQL skills and experience with relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL);
• Comfortable in Linux/Unix environments with shell scripting;

• Duration: Long Term Contract.
• Location: Portugal. Able to work from the office a minimum of 2 days per week. Candidates must be living in Portugal.