About The Role

Lab IT Compute 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 private/ public cloud and SDN (Software Defined Networks), 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 5+ years’ experience in Enterprise Compute solutions, Private cloud, Datacenter or Network design and deployment, 3+ year experience architecting and integrating private cloud solutions or datacenter virtualization
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 datacenter environment
Knowledge of datacenter design and deployment

It would be nice if you also had

Understanding of Infrastructure as Code.
Experience in automation and orchestration
Experience in coding as scripting
knowledge about Nokia Service Routers and Nokia SR Linux products
knowledge about Fortinet and Palo Alto Firewalls
Knowledge of standard Network infra protocols such as OSPF, BGP, QoS, VRRP, VxLAN etc.