Senior Network Engineer for Industrial AI Cloud at DeutscheTelekomITSolutionsSlovakia

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 a Senior Network Engineer for Industrial AI Cloud to build and 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 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. Senior Network Engineer considers and implements 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.  • Management Network: A separate 1 Gbps Ethernet  and serial console for out-of-band (OOB) network management.  • PE/CE datacenter connectivity: CE routers, firewalls Design, develop, test, implement and support ICT components and applications in order to deliver quality standard product portfolio on AI Factory Cloud platform. • 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. • Provide project deliverables to fulfil the project scope. • Consult and implement new innovative technologies to satisfy innovation strategy. • Provide overall solutions and principles in planning, developing, and implementing new products to satisfy business requirements. • Develop, and implement architecture of services based on AI Factory Cloud platform requirements. • Mentor and train co-workers to spread knowledge level and develop their skills. • Act as key technical lead and solve and coordinate activities across related technologies/outside own team. • Provide consulting services to project teams on areas of expertise. • Research and development in assigned technology, determine business requirements, propose changes and develop implementation plans.