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IT Systems Architect Data Center

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  • Level
    Experienced
  • Job Field
    IT, System, DevOps
  • Employment Type
    Full Time
  • Contract Type
    Permanent employment
  • Location
    Leipzig
  • Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Job Summary

    In this role, you design high-availability datacenter architectures, create solutions, and advise clients on storage, virtualization, and cloud technologies.

    Job Technologies

    Your role in the team

    • Architecture design and technology selection: You develop modern data center architectures for highly available and resilient IT infrastructures. This includes designing solutions for compute, storage, and virtualization platforms as well as for cloud and hybrid cloud environments. You create high-level and low-level designs, evaluate vendor solutions, and define technical standards to create high-performance, secure, and future-proof IT landscapes.
    • Strategic consulting and conception: You analyze business requirements together with clients and stakeholders and translate them into sustainable infrastructure and architecture concepts. You advise on technologies, vendors, and modern data center strategies in the areas of storage, backup, disaster recovery, containerization, automation, and monitoring. In doing so, you consider technical, economic, and regulatory requirements.
    • Presales and Customer Consulting: As a technical contact person, you support our sales team with tenders, proposals, and customer presentations. You develop customized solution concepts for complex data center environments and conduct workshops as well as architecture reviews. In doing so, you convey sophisticated technical content in an understandable manner to both technical and non-technical audiences.
    • Economic Responsibility: You evaluate infrastructure and architecture decisions from an economic perspective, such as TCO and ROI. You ensure that technological innovations align with business objectives. Additionally, you develop solutions that are economically and operationally sustainable in the long term.
    • Innovation and technical excellence: You evaluate new technologies and architectural approaches within the framework of proof-of-concepts and assist with complex performance analyses as well as troubleshooting scenarios. Your expertise extends to storage and SAN infrastructures, backup and recovery solutions, virtualization platforms, high availability concepts, as well as business continuity and disaster recovery strategies. Through continuous monitoring of technological developments, you actively contribute to the further development of our data center portfolio.
    • Collaboration and Knowledge Transfer: You work closely with clients, departments, sales, service account management, and technical teams. Additionally, you provide professional support to colleagues, share your knowledge in workshops, and assist with onboarding and the ongoing development of new employees.

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    Our expectations of you

    Education

    • Completed degree in Computer Science, a related field of study, or a completed technical apprenticeship.

    Qualifications

    • In-depth knowledge of backup and disaster recovery solutions such as Veeam and Commvault, as well as their application for business continuity and cyber resilience.
    • In-depth knowledge of virtualization and software-defined data center platforms, especially Broadcom/VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, and KVM-based hypervisors.
    • Deep knowledge of network technologies and their integration into modern IT infrastructures.
    • Knowledge in handling automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Broadcom/VMware VCF Automation).
    • Knowledge of ITIL and project management methods.
    • Understanding of operational processes and organizational structures.
    • Strong communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills, as well as assertiveness.
    • Strong customer and service orientation.
    • A high degree of initiative and a strongly solution-oriented work approach.
    • Negotiation-level German (at least C1) and fluent English (B2) skills.

    Experience

    • Several years of professional experience as an IT Systems Architect or in a comparable position, ideally within a system integrator environment, with proven expertise in planning, implementing, troubleshooting, and optimizing modern data center architectures for storage, backup, and virtualization solutions, taking into account security, data protection, and compliance requirements (e.g., ISO 27001, BSI Basic Protection, GDPR).
    • In-depth knowledge of enterprise storage technologies as well as practical experience with SAN, NAS, and Object Storage solutions from leading manufacturers such as Dell Technologies, HPE, Huawei, or Pure.

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    What we offer

    • Flexible working hours.
    • Modern hardware (laptop and company mobile phone).
    • Ergonomic workstations.
    • Benefits on the Corporate Benefit portal.
    • Good transport connections.
    • Opportunity for a sabbatical.

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    Benefits

    Work-Life-Integration

    Health, Fitness & Fun

    Higher Take-Home Pay

    Topics You Will Work On

    Job Locations

    • Location Leipzig

      Sachsen

      Germany

    About Your Employer

    WBS Training AG

    WBS Training AG

    More than 1,400 employees work to create digital and flexible education offerings. For more than 40 years, WBS GRUPPE has been providing excellent qualifications, self-competencies, and practical knowledge to students. This helps us to specifically increase our customers' job and career prospects, and helps businesses to develop competent staff. This is important to us.

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  • Company Type
    Established Company
  • Working Model
    Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
  • Industry
    Education System
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