NVIDIA and Deutsche Telekom are jointly developing the world’s first industrial AI cloud for European manufacturers. This AI factory in Germany will host 10,000 GPUs across NVIDIA DGX B200 systems and RTX Pro Servers. Deutsche Telekom provides secure, sovereign and fast infrastructure, including data centers, operations, security, and AI solutions. Role Overview: We are seeking an Lead Architect for Network Infrastructure at Industrial AI Cloud to design, build, automate network platform for automation and operation related network components such as Switches, Firewalls, Routers, Border Gateways as part of core environment of the Industrial AI Cloud. In this role you will design, provision and manage above mentioned stack, implement and fine-tune monitoring, and deploy additional components if necessary. You’ll be working and coordinating between multiple teams (such as Infrastructure, Platform) to deliver and continuously improve infrastructure services following ITIL processes. Lead Architect Considers and defines design to enable automated configuration management, release management, build, test and deployment activities. This is a customer facing role/ tailor made solutions and implementations for the customer including consultancy. Proprietary technologies used for managing above scope: InfiniBand, Cumullus OS, RoCE, UFM, FortiGate friewalls, Cisco Border gateways.  WHAT WILL YOU DO? Coordinate Operations together with Data Center, IaaS & PaaS layer: Coordinate and support network lifecycle activities (installs, upgrades, changes, firmware updates) and manage /network interconnections and related documentation Switch & Firewall Management:  Provision and maintain InfiniBand switches according to ITIL Standards Automation:  Develop and maintain automation scripts to orchestrate overall scope. Fine tuning, configuration changes through whole project lifetime  OS & Firmware Management:  Maintain network-based environments, apply patches, and manage firmware upgrades at scale. Monitoring & Observability:    ITIL Processes: Follow and improve incident, problem, and change management workflows; document runbooks and standard operating procedures. Adhere to ZERO Outage guidelines. Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with Platform Engineers and AI solution teams to ensure smooth deployments and operations. Manage High-Speed Fabric: A unified network fabric utilizing both InfiniBand and Ethernet / RoCE technologies.  Build and develop concepts, processes and methods for automation, optimization, and standardization to satisfy efficiency and automation requirements. Provide advice or information at request or at own initiative to all relevant employees or customers regarding technical aspects of products. Mentor and train co-workers to spread knowledge level and develop their skills. Act as technical lead and solve and coordinate activities across related technologies/outside own team. The network architect must demonstrate expertise and experience with the following technologies, as our environment relies on their optimal configuration and management of InfiniBand, RoCE, managing UFM, FortiGate Firewalls and Cisco Border gateways.  Experience with the following technologies, as our environment relies on their optimal configuration and management of  InfiniBand, RoCE, managing UFM, FortiGate Firewalls and Cisco Border gateways.