Cloud & Sdn Solution Architect Milano

Cloud & Sdn Solution Architect
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Role Purpose**:

- As Cloud and SDN solution architect in Cloud Solutions, Orchestration and Intelligence team we expect you to run cloud solutions design for all the European Markets including MPN and Edge, in accordance with Vodafone strategy and focused on Virtual/Containerized Network Functions (VFN) and SDN needs.

- As a member of Cloud solution team, technology focus from solution design and best practices perspective will be (but not limited to):

- Virtualization and Cloud native platforms overall;

- VMWare Telco Cloud Platform components, namely: vCloud Director, vSphere, vRealize products (vRealize Operations, Orchestrator, Log inside and network inside), NSX-T, Telco Cloud Automation (TCA) and VMWare Tanzu Kuberneters Grid (TKG);

- Hardware and software lifecycle management

- Infrastructure in general (hypervisor, computing, storage, Networking - physical or virtual);- Design Backup Solution to support Telco Cloud Platform

- From deliverables perspective, we expect you to:

- Design cloud solutions based on the technologies mentioned above, considering efficiency, security, resiliency and automation, aligned with the peculiarities of NFV workloads (low latency, high throughput and resilience).

- Support on RFQs, definition of reference architectures, PoCs and FOAs to assure harmonization for all European markets and by ensuring new Infrastructure capabilities evolution design;

- Engage with the different stakeholders (internal and external) as NVI expert, to assure NVI evolution (and adoption) aligned with Vodafone Strategy;

- Run business cases to support NVI evolution.

**Key accountabilities and decision ownership**:

- Prepare mid and long term technology plan, in line with Vendor's roadmap and technology evolution, to cope with customers' and traffic growth ensuring service quality and network performance according to business requirements

- Solution Design (CaaS, IaaS and/or PaaS) in accordance to Vodafone needs and aligned with best practices.

- Evaluate Vendors' technical and commercial offers and support Supply Chain/Vodafone Purchase Company activities during commercial negotiations with the Vendors

- Prepare mid and long term financial planning activities (Network Evolution Plan and Short & Long Range Plan)

- Support capacity planning and its continuous monitoring through Machine Learning techniques.

**Core competencies, knowledge and experience**:

- Strong communication, presentation and negotiation skills (in English)

- Customer oriented and systematic way of working

- Ability to work across multi-functional and cultural boundaries to deliver results and change

- Strong individual thinking & judgment

- Open minded attitude

**Must have technical / professional qualifications**:

- Degree qualified

- At least 5 years professional experience in cloud and virtualization telco workload

- Expert in data centre infrastructure, cloud computing and virtualization architectures (Telco)

- Solid understanding of virtualization (VMWare) and containerization (Kubernetes)

- Solid understanding of routing and switching protocols (ie.

BGP / ISIS / OSPF)

- Experience with kubernetes networking (CNIs, Service Mesh, Network Policies, Ingress/Egress)

- Experience with Network Load Balancers and Firewalls

- Experience designing/implementing IPv6 solutions

- Nice to have:

- Experience on engineering and architecture of NFV/SDN solutions

- Best practice on orchestration and automation

- knowledge of Machine Learning and AI techniques