Sr. Solutions Architect Innovation Lab (mfd)

About Role

At Digital Realty were building the next generation of AI-ready infrastructure. Were looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to join our Digital Realty Innovation Lab (DRIL) where new ideas are transformed into practical solutions for our customers and our business.

This role combines architecture engineering and innovation. Youll help design modern infrastructure that supports AI cloud and enterprise workloads while collaborating with experts across engineering operations and facilities.

Were looking for someone with strong infrastructure experience who enjoys solving complex technical challenges learning new technologies and working with cross-functional teams. You dont need to have experience with every technology listed belowwe value curiosity adaptability and a willingness to learn.

What Youll Do

Design Modern Infrastructure

• Design scalable infrastructure solutions for enterprise hybrid cloud and AI workloads.
• Create architectures that balance performance reliability and operational efficiency.
• Help customers and internal teams plan for high-performance compute storage networking and data center capacity.

Build and Evaluate Solutions

• Develop proof-of-concepts and prototype emerging technologies.
• Work with technologies from leading infrastructure vendors including Dell HPE NVIDIA Cisco NetApp Juniper and major cloud providers.
• Leverage automation and Infrastructure-as-Code tools to improve deployment and operational efficiency.

Collaborate Across Teams

• Partner with facilities operations and engineering teams to ensure solutions align with data center space power and cooling requirements.
• Support planning for both traditional enterprise infrastructure and next-generation AI deployments.
• Share technical guidance with internal stakeholders and customers.

Drive Innovation

• Participate in research and development initiatives within DRIL.
• Help evaluate new technologies and identify opportunities to improve performance sustainability and operational efficiency.
• Present findings and recommendations to technical and business audiences.

Share Knowledge

• Mentor teammates and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.
• Create documentation reference architectures and best practices that help teams work consistently and efficiently.

What youll bring

Required

• Several years of experience designing or implementing enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Experience with compute storage networking virtualization or cloud technologies.
• Understanding of modern data center infrastructure and enterprise architectures.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A collaborative approach to solving technical challenges.

Nice to Have

• Bachelors or masters degree in related field
• Experience with AI or high-performance computing infrastructure.
• Familiarity with GPU-based platforms Kubernetes or container technologies.
• Experience with AWS Azure or Google Cloud.
• Experience using automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Knowledge of data center planning including power cooling and rack design.
• Industry certifications such as AWS Cisco NVIDIA VMware or PMP.

About DRIL:

TheDigital Realty Innovation Lab (DRIL)is the center of innovation and experimentation within Digital Realty. DRIL brings together infrastructure architects engineers and technologists to prototype and implement next-generation solutions across AI cloud edge and hybrid environments. Our team shapes the future of connected infrastructure with a focus on sustainability performance and scale.

A bit about us

Digital Realty is the leading provider of carrier and cloud neutral data centre services 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 in50metros across28countries on6continents. Weve3500colleagues around the world who work together come up with life-changing solutions and create connections that matter every day.

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. This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.