Lead Architect for Network Infrastructure at Industrial AI Cloud

NVIDIA and Deutsche Telekom are jointly developing the worlds first industrial AI cloud for European manufacturers. This AI factory in Germany will host 10000 GPUs across NVIDIA DGX B200 systems and RTX Pro Servers. Deutsche Telekom provides secure sovereign and fast infrastructure including data centers operations security and AI solutions.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a Lead Architect for Network Infrastructure at Industrial AI Cloud to design build automate network platform for automation and operation related network components such as Switches Firewalls Routers Border Gateways as part of core environment of the Industrial AI this role you will design provision and manage above mentioned stack implement and fine-tune monitoring and deploy additional components if necessary. Youll be working and coordinating between multiple teams (such as Infrastructure Platform) to deliver and continuously improve infrastructure services following ITIL processes.

Lead Architect Considers and defines design to enable automated configuration management release management build test and deployment activities. This is a customer facing role/ tailor made solutions and implementations for the customer including consultancy. Proprietary technologies used for managing above scope: InfiniBand Cumullus OS RoCE UFM  FortiGate friewalls Cisco Border gateways. 

WHAT WILL YOU DO

• Coordinate Operations together with Data Center IaaS & PaaS layer: Coordinate and support network lifecycle activities (installs upgrades changes firmware updates) and manage /network interconnections and related documentation
• Switch & Firewall Management: Provision and maintain InfiniBand switches according to ITIL Standards
• Automation: Develop and maintain automation scripts to orchestrate overall scope. Fine tuning configuration changes through whole project lifetime 
• OS & Firmware Management: Maintain network-based environments apply patches and manage firmware upgrades at scale.
• Monitoring & Observability:   
• ITIL Processes: Follow and improve incident problem and change management workflows; document runbooks and standard operating procedures. Adhere to ZERO Outage guidelines.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with Platform Engineers and AI solution teams to ensure smooth deployments and operations.
• Manage High-Speed Fabric: A unified network fabric utilizing both InfiniBand and Ethernet / RoCE technologies. 
• Management Network: A separate 1 Gbps Ethernet  and serial console for out-of-band (OOB) network management. 
• PE/CE datacenter connectivity: CE routers firewalls Design develop test implement and support ICT components and applications in order to deliver quality standard product portfolio on AI Factory Cloud platform.
• Build and develop concepts processes and methods for automation optimization and standardization to satisfy efficiency and automation requirements.
• Provide advice or information at request or at own initiative to all relevant employees or customers regarding technical aspects of products.
• Provide project deliverables to fulfil the project scope.
• Consult and implement new innovative technologies to satisfy innovation strategy.
• Provide overall solutions and principles in planning developing and implementing new products to satisfy business requirements.
• Design develop and implement architecture of services based on AI Factory Cloud platform requirements.
• Mentor and train co-workers to spread knowledge level and develop their skills.
• Act as key technical lead and solve and coordinate activities across related technologies/outside own team.
• Provide consulting services to project teams on areas of expertise.
• Research and development in assigned technology determine business requirements propose changes and develop implementation plans.                                                                       

Qualifications :

YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU:

• Hold a Masters degree in Information Technologies.
• Bring hands-on experience in network installation maintenance and operations.
• Deeply understand InfiniBand architecture RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and low-latency high-throughput networking for AI/HPC workloads.
• Have experience with NVIDIA/Mellanox switch configuration and UFM (Unified Fabric Manager) management.
• Have solid knowledge of Data Center Routing & Border Gateway Protocols - understanding of Cisco or Juniper routers (e.g. CR-8608 PTX 10004) and BGP/OSPF routing. Knowledge of ASNs IP Transit peering and failover connectivity
• Demonstrate Linux Networking skills (Cumulus OS / Ubuntu / Debian) command-line networking skills on Linux-based systems especially Cumulus Linux and you have experience with configuring bridges bonds VLANs and routing tables.
• Have experience using tools such as iperf ETHTool nvidia-smi for network devices perfquery and Mellanox/NVIDIA diagnostics.
• Are skilled in continuous monitoring incident detection and root-cause analysis for large-scale data center networks.
• Are familiar with NOC/SOC operational procedures and on-call rotation models.
• Possess experience in Firewall & Security Management includes: Proficiency in FortiGate firewall administration policies NAT VPNs IDS/IPS and HA configuration. Understanding of security segmentation DDoS mitigation and zero-trust networking.
• Have hands-on experience in Configuration & Lifecycle Management includes switch provisioning firmware/OS upgrades patch management and configuration backups.
• Possess working knowledge of ITIL processes (incident problem change).
• Have 5 years of experience in the design and delivery of systems based on IaaS PaaS and SaaS.
• Have 3 years of experience building CI/CD pipelines and serverless architectures.
• Have Industrial AI Factory Cloud platform SW stack knowledge incl. its dependencies on below layers.
• Demonstrate knowledge of NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated server platform.
• Have knowledge of Data Engineering Data Transformation Data Migration Tools.
• Have solid knowledge of Kubernetes (or similar) container-based technologies.
• Have experience with VMware environments (VMware Tanzu Kubernetes).
• Write scripts in Go Python and/or Bash.
• Use automation tools effectively (Ansible SaltStack Terraform Helm) for deployments.
• Work with CI/CD in Kubernetes environments and manage repositories.
• Are expert in automation using Git (GitHub GitLab) and CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD.
• Have practical experience with Linux operating systems.
• Understand Software-Defined Networking (SDN) principles.
• Use monitoring and visualization tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.

• Communicate clearly and demonstrate analytical thinking teamwork presentation and negotiation skills.
• Speak English at an advanced (C1) level; German is an advantage.
• Apply basic project management and leadership skills.
• Demonstrate intermediate knowledge of quality management and financial literacy.

Additional Information :

WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE US

We believe in balance between work and personal life. An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio guarantees lasting motivation for employees and thus a better quality of life promotes physical and mental well-being and contributes to a positive work environment. All this with the aim of providing more freedom in reconciling work career growth private life and individual lifestyle. Therefore we offer to our employees over 25 different benefits to improve their personal and professional life in these areas:

• Financial benefits
• Benefits with focus on learning and development
• Benefits with focus on health and sport
• Benefits with focus on family and work life balance
• Other benefits

For more information about our benefits click to Benefits

Salary

Final salary is negotiable.

We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits. Base salary will not be lower than 2 500 /brutto.

Additional information

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time