Cloud Platform Architect

Quick Facts

Remote-focused Cloud Platform Architect role centered on designing and evolving multi-tenant cloud platform architecture using OpenStack and/or VMware. Includes architecture ownership, scaling and capacity planning, PreSales technical support, and on-call rotation.

Role Description

You will design and improve the multi-tenant platform (OpenStack/VMware). The work covers data center, network, security, storage, and compute integration, plus platform blueprints, operating concepts, scaling models, and technology evaluations. You will also support PreSales technically and act as a sparring partner for engineers and consultants.

Responsibilities

• Architect and further develop multi-tenant platforms (OpenStack/VMware)
• Design data center, network, and security architecture—backbone, firewalls, and segmentation
• Design and integrate network, security, storage, and compute components
• Create platform blueprints, operating concepts, and scaling models
• Perform sizing and capacity planning for compute, storage, and network resources
• Design new cloud services and contribute to the service portfolio
• Technically evaluate new technologies for platform adoption
• Support PreSales with architecture design, capacity planning, and effort estimation (~10–15% of your time)
• Create and maintain architecture documentation, standards, and guidelines
• Serve as a technical sparring partner for engineers, consultants, and team leads
• Participate in team on-call rotation

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or comparable qualification
• Multi-year experience designing and operating complex cloud and data center infrastructures; at least three years in multi-tenant platform design
• Excellent OpenStack and/or VMware expertise (vSphere, NSX, vSAN, vCloud Director)
• Deep knowledge of data center network architecture, enterprise storage, and security concepts
• Experience designing tenant-capable platforms with clean isolation
• Strong practical automation and Infrastructure-as-Code skills (Terraform, Ansible, APIs)
• Ability to communicate complex architectures, make decisions, and defend them under challenge
• Experience working with PreSales and customers on technical topics
• Willingness to join on-call rotation
• Willingness to attend onsite customer meetings or provide PreSales support about 2–4 days per month with planning in advance
• Very good German and English skills
• Relevant certifications are a plus

Benefits

• Modern workplace and family-friendly environment
• Flexible trust-based working hours
• 30 days of vacation
• Option to work from the EU abroad for up to 3 months per year
• Health and fitness offers
• Training and certification opportunities
• Company car or electric vehicle for customer appointments; JobRad options
• Contributions toward retirement savings, discounts across 1,500+ providers, and childcare subsidies