Enterprise Architect for AI Cloud Infrastructure (mfd)

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 an Enterprise 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.

Enterprise 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. 
• 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.
• 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.
• The network architect must demonstrate expertise and experience with the following technologies as our environment relies on their optimal configuration and management of InfiniBand RoCE managing UFM FortiGate Firewalls and Cisco Border gateways. 
• Experience with the following technologies as our environment relies on their optimal configuration and management of InfiniBand RoCE managing UFM FortiGate Firewalls and Cisco Border gateways. 

Qualifications :

YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU:

• Bring hands-on experience in network installation maintenance and operations.
• Have knowledge of InfiniBand architecture RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and low-latency high-throughput networking for AI/HPC workloads.
• Possess knowledge of Data Center Routing & Border Gateway Protocols including understanding of Cisco or Juniper routers (e.g. CR8608 PTX10004) and BGP/OSPF routing as well as ASNs IP Transit peering and failover connectivity.
• Demonstrate solid Linux skills.
• Are skilled in continuous monitoring incident detection and root-cause analysis for large-scale data center networks.
• Have experience with Firewall & Security.
• Have hands-on experience in Configuration & Lifecycle Management including switch provisioning firmware/OS upgrades patch management and configuration backups.
• Have 5 years of experience in the design and delivery of systems based on IaaS PaaS and SaaS.
• Have experience with scripting in Python/Bash.
• Use automation tools effectively (Ansible SaltStack Terraform Helm) for deployments.
• Are proficient in automation using Git (GitHub GitLab) and CI/CD tools such as 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.
• Speak English at B2 level; German is an advantage.

Additional Information :

Benefits

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 3100 /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