Datacenter Infrastructure Architect

About Proximus NXT
Proximus NXT Luxembourg supports all organizations in their digital transformation, by providing holistic ICT & Telecommunication solutions, as well as tailored managed services. With our partners and customers, we co-create opportunities and enable growth in a secure and sustainable manner. As a result of our unique expertise in next-gen IT services, mobile and advanced connectivity, we help our customers achieve their ambitions and realize their vision.
Together with them and our partners we implement sovereign and trusted solutions that make people work smarter.- Your mission:
The infrastructure architect is responsible for the design of complex infrastructures in line with the business strategy, service offering and customer requirements.
Infrastructure Architects fulfil a critical role are responsible for advisory, design, validating the technical requirements and associated architecture, for our private cloud solutions, actively leads the evolution to hybrid and public cloud.
They are liaising with other entities to develop proposals and high-level architectures to translate our U-Flex services.
They play an essential role to design solutions aligned with standards and the "ability to execute" of our operational organizations.
Customer/business project related activities:
• Define technical standards and procedures facilitating the onboarding of new customers into our solutions
• Contribute to the definition of business cases, adoption programs, technical and operational readiness assessments to facilitate the onboarding
• Support the Project Manager to develop the project plan in order to ensure a smooth systematic onboarding process, risk identification and mitigation, respect of "ability to execute" of our operational organisations.
• Elaborate the HLD and ensure its validation by the customer
• Ensure deployment is executed with respect of security and the data center standards and support the engineers when reuired
Department related activities:
• Technology watch related to the private cloud solutions (HW, SW) in order to maintain/increase the quality/performance of the services
• Collaborate with the data centre teams to challenge infrastructures, in terms of performance, responsiveness, resiliency, security, scalability and the given case initiate changes
• Ensure that our private cloud infrastructure is designed and implemented in line with the best practises recommended by the vendors, legal constraints (GDPR, PSF, ...) and standards (ISO, SOC2, ...)
• Support the Compliance team during audits and certifications
• Developing policies, procedures, and standards
• Ensuring that the data center is secure, reliable, and can meet the organization's needs.
Strategy related activities:
• Lead the evolution of the private and sovereign cloud infrastructures / solution
• Collaborate with the Sales/DC teams in order to evaluate/select the best products to meet business objectives while ensuring uniformity/continuity
Your profile:
• Education: BAC +5 in computer sciences or equivalent by experience
• At least 3 years of professional experience in a similar position
• At least 5 years of technical experience in the concerned domain (Senior Level)
• Fluent in French and English is mandatory
• Must fulfil the requirements to obtain an EU security clearance;
Required skills:
• Strong background in OSI layer model
• OS Microsoft/Linux
• Exchange, O365, AD-DNS, ADFS, MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle
• Good technical knowledge of different technologies: Network (Cisco ACI, Nexus), Security (Checkpoint, Palo Alto, F5), Storage (Netapp), Virtualization (VMWare, OLVM). Very good knowledge of routing protocols and Cisco ACI principles
• Familiar with containerization technologies and architectures (OpenShift, Kubernetes, ...)
• Certifications in one or more of those technical domains
• Experience in delivering in a production environment is considered as an advantage
• Strong organizational skills and analytical ability
• Solid capacity to produce high-level as well as complex technical documentation (LLD)
• Curious and motivated to assimilate new technologies and certifications
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, capacity to justify purchases, strategies
• Able to adapt the explanations to technical as well as non-technical audience
• Team player with strong interpersonal, analytic, communication and leadership skills
Our offer:

• A professional, stimulating and innovative working environment:
Joining Proximus Luxembourg means becoming part of a human-sized company while benefiting from the strength, expertise and opportunities offered by the Proximus Group. You will work within dynamic, supportive and collaborative teams, where team spirit, kno