Manager Solution Architecture

Position Title: Manager Solution Architecture

Location: Sydney

Your role

This role is ideal for a professional with a blend of strategic architectural expertise and hands-on engineering experience across compute storage and networkingplus strong domain knowledge inAI infrastructure Software Defined Networksanddata center space power and cooling.

The ideal candidate has 10 years of experience architecting complex infrastructure solutions holds a Bachelors degree (Masters preferred) in related field and thrives in environments that demand innovative thinking excellent communication and effective program/project management.

What youll do

Solution Selling andTechnicalConsultation

• Strong ability to focus ambiguous customer needs into specific deliverable requirements
• Able tofacilitate workshop style sessions with customersto extract important areas of customers current architecture. Can keenly couple key insights topresent highly technical concepts andsolutionsspecificstoaudiences of varying technical capabilities in a clearconcise and easily understood manner
• Professional pre-sales consultation of customer technical requirements to develop viable solutions resulting inbookings.
• Quickly andaccurately assess current operations identifyopportunities for architectural changes to drive additional business benefit
• Ability to extractunrealized customer requirements and service benefitsgainingconsensus with data driven positioning.
• Cost estimation with a focus of helping customers understand return on investment as well as total cost of ownership advantages of solutions proposed
• Coach and provide technical leadership to others on network designs platform sizing infrastructure system design and the application of new technologies and project management methodologies

Compute Storage & Networking Implementation

Networking

• Substantial telecommunications experience required; technical and commercial knowledge ofInternetMPLS and IPVPNtopologiesand architecturesrequired
• Proficient in router and switch features andconfigurationfaulttolerant designs and QOSmapping
• Experience withroutingand switching protocols; SDN/NFVperformancemeasurement tuning and scaling and reliability and security techniques
• Experience with Network PeeringInternet Exchanges andCDNs
• Datacenter networkingtechnologies and architectures (Leaf-Spine architectures Data Center Interconnect technologies)
• Architect and deploy robust infrastructure using hardware/software from vendors such as Dell HPE NVIDIA Cisco NetApp and Juniper.
• Apply deep knowledge of high-performance computing (HPC) and low-latency networking to AI/ML solution design.

Data Center Optimization

• Collaborate with facilities and operations teams to optimize infrastructure deployments based on available rack space power draw thermal dynamics and airflow efficiency.
• Contribute to the planning and provisioning of data center resources ensuring support for both traditional workloads and AI-intensive environments.
• Evaluate emerging technologies for space power and cooling efficiency in next-gen data center deployments.
• Must have a thorough understanding of and experience withservers storage layer 3 networking and enterprise software. Solid understanding of the entire OSI stackis a must
• Experience with data center virtualization software defined data centers andhyper-convergedinfrastructure solutions
• Software and Database system development
• Storage Platform technologies (SAN/NAS) including Hardware and Software (EMC/NetApp/Sun/IBM/HP/VMware/Citrix/Brocade/Juniper)
• Must have a thorough understanding of the implication of common IT product on system designs: servers storage layer 3 networking and enterprise software.

Enterprise IT

• Must have a thorough understanding of and experience withservers storage layer 3 networking and enterprise software. Solid understanding of the entire OSI stackis a must
• Experience with data center virtualization software defined data centers andhyper-convergedinfrastructure solutions
• Software and Database system development
• Storage Platform technologies (SAN/NAS) including Hardware and Software (EMC/NetApp/Sun/IBM/HP/VMware/Citrix/Brocade/Juniper)
• Must have a thorough understanding of the implication of common IT product on system designs: servers storage layer 3 networking and enterprise software.

Innovative Architecture & Infrastructure Design

• Knowledge of enterprise-grade solutions that integrate hybrid/multi-cloud AI-ready compute and intelligent infrastructure platforms.
• Ensure alignment of technical solutions including Interconnectivity data center space power and cooling capacities incorporating sustainability and energy-efficiency goals.

Knowledge Sharing

• Proactively share knowledge and experience across sales and solutions teams to enable continuous learning and best-practice adoption.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures design standards and lab documentation to drive consistency and scalability.

What youll need

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or a related field required.
• Masters degree preferred.
• 10 years of hands-on experience in network architecture infrastructure architecture systems engineering or solution architecture.
• Knowledge of AI/ML infrastructure design (e.g. NVIDIA GPUs distributed compute high-speed storage).
• Demonstrated understanding of data center operational constraints including power provisioning rack planning and cooling technologies.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise networking (routing/switching SDN) storage platforms (SAN/NAS) and compute systems (virtualized bare metal HCI).
• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) and hybrid cloud strategies.
• Familiarity with HPC architectures and containerization technologies (e.g. Kubernetes Docker) for AI workloads.
• Relevant technical certifications such as Cisco CCNP/CCIE NVIDIA Certified VMware VCP or PMP.
• Strong communication and presentation skills across diverse audiences.
• Excellent organizational and time-management abilities.
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on approach to technical problem-solving.

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL the companys global data center platform provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.

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What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and youll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team youll get to work with people from different business areas challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. Well also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Apply today take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.

Health and Safety

Safety isnt just a priority here at Digital; its critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives protecting assets and securing data arent just ideals - theyre essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package excellent benefits and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the companys overall goals and values.