Senior Cloud Architect

The Public Cloud Portfolio Unit operates on a national and international level, for medium-sized and large companies. We develop, market and operate agile, cloud-native, forward-looking products and services for the digital world. We see ourselves as innovation drivers and make our customers' business fit for the digital future. Our mission: Together with our customer, shaping the safest, easiest and most efficient transformation to a digitized and cloud-native future.

Your Department

We run Open Telekom Cloud! Open Telekom Cloud is a public cloud standard product based on open source community software and driven by principles of DevSecOps. Lean structures, agile methods, highly motivated teams and an extremely dynamic business environment determine our actions. With this customer-oriented and agile orientation, we are the anchor point for the Public Cloud business in Deutsche Telekom Group.

We are measured by delivering a secure, stable and innovative platform. We work jointly with our platform partner and other partners out of the OpenStack ecosystem to create a highly innovative public cloud product based on European security and data protection standards.

We are looking for people who are professionals and evangelists with a great deal of enthusiasm for cloud technology and who are up to the challenges created by the development and operation of a hyper-scale public cloud.

We offer a unique insight into how a large public cloud works under the hood, intercultural teamwork, flat hierarchies and an independent work-style.

Job Description

As a "Cloud Architect" you understand the latest developments of physical or virtual networks in cloud and container technology. You drive the further development of the network in our OpenStack-based cloud platform in the interest of customers and the OpenSource community.

This includes the following tasks:

• You will be involved in the design, operation and further development of OpenStack-based services on the Open Telekom Cloud Platform in the network area in close contact with the manufacturers.
• You plan and drive automation using common automation frameworks.
• You further develop the physical and virtual network architecture, taking IT security aspects into account.
• You will work together with specialists from our team and other Deutsche Telekom teams on the technology topics of public cloud, open source.
• You will prepare materials for presentations and advise management on technology decisions.
• As a senior architect you will work in an agile based squad and supporting other colleagues is part of the journey.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science, mathematics, a technical, engineering or natural science subject or a comparable vocational training with many years of professional experience.
• Knowledge and experience in AI/Big Data topic (machine learning, Big data models, Generative AI)
• 3-5 years of professional experience in the ICT sector, ideally with a focus on modern Cloud technologies (Public Clouds, preferably OpenStack-based, or Docker or Kubernetes).
• Ability to understand Low Level Design and be able to work with it.
• Willingness to create proof-of-concepts with the help of necessary scripting languages and other tools for testing the concepts in practice.
• Excellent ability to assess technical solutions individually.
• Make the necessary decisions when solving incidents and any kind of tasks.
• Agile mindset.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken.
• German knowledge is a plus
• Feeling comfortable in a multicultural environment
• Proven record of deep knowledge in physical networking and IT Security (Routers, Switches, Firewalls) is a plus
• Past experience with OpenSource projects is a plus.
• Experience with Automation e.g. with Ansible. Is a plus