About The Role

Lab IT Network Architect / Solution Designer is responsible and accountable for IT services in Laboratories, including but not limited to Lab networks, compute resources and security services. Solution Designer handles the full cycle of Service offerings, from collecting requirements to day 2 operations – Architecture, technical concept and design, configuration, functionalities, processes, standardization and performance. This is a global position to support Nokia ongoing Digitalization and AI journey.

Understands Nokia IT and Business requirements and strategy for Laboratories and special environments.
Understand security controls and policies. Network and Compute hardening best practices and standards
Engage with IT and Business stakeholders on requirements reviews and solutioning
Desing and customize IT Service offerings for Laboratories. Services like SDN (Software Defined Networks), Private Clouds, ensuring high Performance, security and flexibility
Define Processes and Operational Procedures for services in her/his area of responsibility
Perform implementations (new deployments or changes), implementation reviews or acceptance to ensure design compliance and gap mitigation.
Document solution design for various projects and deployment scenarios
Support analysis of critical incidents and Identify design related gaps that caused the incident to define preventive actions
Drive automation and optimization of Laboratory IT Infrastructure Services
Bachelors’ degree or engineering degree in Telecommunications/Information Technology/Computer Science or equivalent
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
Minimum of 8+ years’ experience in Network, Datacenter or Private cloud design and deployment, 3+ year experience architecting and integrating solutions for datacenter network and virtualization
Strong Knowledge in switching, routing and security
Strong knowledge in Linux OSes and virtualization platforms (Openstack, VMware, Openshift , Proxmox, etc.).
Deep Understanding of ITIL processes
Experience in handling large enterprise network environment
Experience in datacenter design and deployment

It would be nice if you also had

Understanding of Infrastructure as Code.
Experience in automation and orchestration
Experience with Nokia Service Routers and Nokia SR Linux products
Experience with Fortinet and Palo Alto Firewalls
Knowledge of standard Network infra protocols such as OSPF, BGP, QoS, VRRP, VxLAN etc.
Good understanding on other network protocols like DHCP, DNS, IPsec,TLS etc.
Experience in IPv6 deployment.