Platform Architect - Non-VMware Private Cloud

Company: Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions
Location: Hungary (Remote within Hungary)

As Hungary’s most attractive employer in 2025, Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions is a leading provider of IT and telecommunications services. We are looking for skilled IT professionals to join our team and shape the future of our private cloud infrastructure.

About the Role

The Platform Architect will be responsible for designing and evolving a Non-VMware private cloud platform within the FCI Service Family. This platform is built on open-source technologies, including KVM virtualization, software-defined networking, and storage solutions, with a strong emphasis on automation using Terraform and Ansible. The goal is to provide a secure, scalable, and highly automated infrastructure to serve enterprise and SAP workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement a SUSE-based virtualization platform using KVM as the hypervisor.
• Ensure the platform is certified and optimized for SAP workloads, including sizing, high availability, and performance requirements.
• Integrate automation with CI/CD pipelines for repeatable, testable infrastructure changes.
• Integrate the platform and automation workflows with ITSM tools like ServiceNow.
• Enable request, change, and incident workflows that trigger automation (Terraform/Ansible) and update CMDB.
• Maintain comprehensive architecture documentation covering compute, storage, network, automation, observability, and integrations.
• Provide project and stakeholder management to prioritize features, manage risks, and align with business and SAP roadmaps.
• Standardize on Infrastructure as Code using Terraform for provisioning and Ansible for configuration management.
• Build reusable modules/roles to automate host provisioning and configuration.

Requirements

• Virtualization Architecture
• Linux / SUSE
• Security Engineering
• Enterprise Networking & SDN
• Data Center Infrastructure
• Strong communication and self-management skills
• English language proficiency

Nice to Have

• Terraform & Ansible
• Grafana & Prometheus
• Technical documentation skills
• ITIL / Agile methodologies
• German language proficiency

Additional Information

• Remote working is available within Hungary due to European taxation regulations.