Employment Type: Full-time permanent
Start Date: ASAP
Location: Stuttgart, Germany

English and German is a must

Role:

In your role as Infrastructure – Solution Architect, you will play a key role in creating highly scalable infrastructure architecture designs based on customer requirements. In your role, it is essential to always consider both sides - the customer's perspective and that of the technical team. With excellent analytical skills and a knack for tackling problems head on, you will find the right solution for all stakeholders and effectively put it into action.

Your responsibilities

• Map high level architectural ambiguity driven by customer requirements, product roadmaps etc... to highly scalable architecture designs.
• Will be primarily responsible for architecting and delivering datacenter and hybrid cloud solutions for our customers.
• Consulting with client stakeholders on strategies for deployment of new cloud technology implementations, monitoring and optimization of existing equipment
• Delivering end-to-end infrastructure management solutions for our customers
• Improving infrastructure operations through better use of monitoring, coding and scripting best practices
• Automating infrastructure migration to private and public cloud environments
• Implementing governance, build, deployment and monitoring standards for the clients
• Support our clients as they improve agility and resilience, and identifies opportunities to reduce IT operations spend through automation and Cloud journey
• Be the single point of contact for Application Owners (customer) for a group of applications for architecture of application infrastructure.
• Translate customer requirements into infrastructure changes and ensure fulfillment
• Maintain operational and architectural documentation for Application infrastructure
• Organize Application Recovery and Disaster Recovery tests
• Propose and implementation infrastructure optimization and service optimization
• Ensure implementation of security guidelines.
• Work with Operational managers and Operational teams to ensure stable operations.
• Ensure service quality.

Skillset required

• Proven years of experience in Datacenter and cloud technologies (Compute, Virtualization (VMWare), Windows, Linux, Storage (Netapp), Backup (VEEAM), Networking, etc.)
• Experience in architecture and design
• Experience with architecting and administering virtual private clouds based on VMWare
• Experience in architecting database(Oracle, PostGreS, MS-SQL) and middleware (Websphere MQ, Websphere Application server, Apache, Tomcat) platforms
• Experience in Micro-services architecture and Kubernetes will be an added advantage
• Prior experience in managing large and complex hybrid cloud environments
• Experience with Datacenter transformation and migration projects would be of advantage.
• Experience with hyper converged infrastructure & Software defined datacenter solutions would be an added advantage
• Automation experience would be an added advantage
• Demonstrated experience on cross-functional business initiatives
• Should be familiar with cloud native services
• Good background and experience on datacenter & cloud security
• Knowledge of Disaster Recovery & BCMS principles & processes

Qualifications required

• Deep understanding of operation and change management and related network processes within ITIL, ideally with certification
• Experience in leading a team.
• Experience in Customer Handling and stakeholder management.
• Ability to handle escalations, be a trusted advisor for the customer and work closely with customers in defining solutions
• Ability to drive Service Improvement programs and drive service quality improvements.
• Familiarity billing and charging topics
• Understanding of service level management process, related agreements – SLA/OLA and workflow steps.
• Analytical ability
• Planning and organizing – Optimally organize the workload across the team.
• Willingness to provide oncall support