Lead Architect

Our brand Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia entered the life of Košice region in 2006 under the name of T-Systems Slovakia and ever since has been inextricably linked with the region when became one of the founding members of Košice IT Valley. We have managed to grow from scratch to the second largest employer in the eastern part of the country with more than 3900 employees. Our goal is to proactively find new ways to improve and continuously transform into the type of company providing innovative information and communication technology services.

Purpose

Responsible for the conceptual design, architecture and the technical solution using multiple technologies and corresponding vendors. Guarantees realization, implementation and functionality of the developed solution.
The role includes consultancy for potential customer in presales period, analysis of customer demands, conversion of the requirements into a technical specification, evaluation of production costs. Additionally steers the international team of experts in order to deliver solution and to define the SLA’s specifications including the transition and transformation phase to handover solution to support/operational delivery units.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Design and implement scalable and secure Data Center solutions, including compute, storage, and networking components.
• Architect and optimize virtualized environments using VMware products (vSphere, vCenter, NSX, vSAN, etc.).
• Develop comprehensive network designs, ensuring high availability, performance, and compliance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure infrastructure aligns with application requirements and business goals.
• Provide technical leadership during incidents, troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues and driving resolution.
• Establish best practices and standards for infrastructure design, deployment, and management.
• Assess and incorporate emerging technologies to enhance infrastructure capabilities and performance.
• Document infrastructure architecture, configurations, and operating procedures for future reference and audits.

YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU:

• Have HCI and Private Cloud skills
• Primarily have knowledge in Primary Hyperconverged Infrastructure based on VMware VCD and Nutanix NCP
• Primarily have knowledge in Advanced VMware and Nutanix platform engineering
• Have hands-on expertise in Ansible Automation Platform, Infrastructure-as-Code, and multi-vendor network automation.
• Ansible | SD-Wan familiarity
• Have strong technical foundation understanding cloud platforms deeply
• Can design scalable, secure, cost-efficient architectures
• Understand networking, security, IAM, automation, and DevOps practices
• Are able to translate business needs into architecture
• Are able to manage ambiguity and change
• Have strong collaboration and influence skills
• Have experience of 5-7 years in infrastructure/network engineering
• Experienced 4+ years of advanced automation delivery

WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE US?

We believe in balance between work and personal life. An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio guarantees lasting motivation for employees and thus a better quality of life, promotes physical and mental well-being and contributes to a positive work environment. All this with the aim of providing more freedom in reconciling work, career growth, private life and individual lifestyle. Therefore we offer to our employees over 25 different benefits to improve their personal and professional life in these areas:

• Financial benefits
• Benefits with focus on learning and development
• Benefits with focus on health and sport
• Benefits with focus on family and work – life balance
• Other benefits

For more information about our benefits click to Benefits

Salary

Final salary is negotiable.

We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of candidate. In addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits. Base salary will not be lower than 2500 € /brutto.

Additional information

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation.