Key Skills

Job Description

Experience: 10+ years Job location: Eindhoven, Netherlands Work mode: 3 to 4 days per week work from client office Hire type: Fixed Term contract. Job Mission As an Engineer you drive the development of Datacenter related connectivity products and services, continuously improving the available product portfolio, availability, security and deployment speed. You are the linking pin between the team and architecture. Also you provide specialist consultancy to internal customers. Together with our Customer Team and architects you ensure effective and efficient deployment of these solutions for our applications and information systems. 2. Job Description Develop and improve enterprise grade Datacenter connectivity products and solutions based on customer demand and architecture roadmap Align requirements from customers, architecture, other infra products (for example compute or storage), security and managed operations Design and PoC/Pilot new products, validating their correct functioning and an efficient deployment Align with colleagues in Operations, ensuring they can deploy and manage the products efficiently Support with the development of the product roadmap, bringing together (future) customer demand and market developments (lifecycle and innovations) Collaborate with Solution and Domain Architects to develop solution designs for specific or complex infra deployments, balancing specific requirements, overall architecture and the strategy to deploy standard products Assure quality in complex deployments Support root cause analysis in case of recurring or high impact issues, and identify required improvements 3. Education Bachelor’s or master’s degree in the area of computer science or equivalent combination of education and experience 4. Experience 10+ years’ experience in designing and deploying connectivity in complex environments like enterprise Datacenter environments Expert knowledge of Cisco ACI, Nexus, F5 Load balancing (GTM/LTM), Netcentric/Application centric firewalling (including micro-segmentation), DC routing/switching. Cisco CCIE DC certification highly preferred Sufficient knowledge about other infra domains, like LAN, (SD)WAN, compute, databases and storage Experienced in translating business requirements to architectural solutions Experience with automation (API, cURL, Git) You understand the needs of Operations (ITIL) Scrum, SAFe or other Agile related Understanding of TOGAF, Archimate AI experience a big plus.

Core Responsibilities

Develop and improve enterprise-grade data center connectivity products, validate new solutions through proofs of concept and pilots, and ensure efficient deployment and operations. Collaborate with customers, architects, and operations teams on solution designs, product roadmaps, deployment quality, and root-cause analysis of significant or recurring issues.

Requirements

Requires 10+ years of experience designing and deploying connectivity in complex enterprise data center environments, with expert knowledge of Cisco ACI, Nexus, F5 load balancing, firewalls, and data center routing and switching. A computer science degree or equivalent experience is required, alongside experience translating business requirements into architecture and familiarity with automation, ITIL, Agile, and architecture frameworks; Cisco CCIE DC certification is highly preferred.