Module Architect IaaS Virtualization and Hardware

As the Bundeswehr's primary digitalization partner, BWI delivers stable, secure and efficient IT services in Germany and abroad. In the Shared Service Architecture, the team drives standardization and automation across services, documents technical dependencies between services and develops target architectures together with the specialist departments. Work is mostly done remotely, with regular, plannable team meetings and the option to meet colleagues in the office.

• Further developing services with the service architects, incorporating current market trends and customer requirements to promote innovation and technical compatibility
• Defining and implementing standards, and designing and implementing an overarching automation approach to speed up service requests, taking technical and cost aspects into account
• Creating, continuously optimizing or further developing, and validating the architectural designs of the main division
• Recording the technical dependencies of all existing services to create an end-to-end situational picture
• Supporting the solution architecture in the context of projects and solution requests
• Designing reference architectures in the sense of more complex architectural solution building blocks

• Completed degree with a focus on IT or a comparable vocational training
• About 4 years of relevant work experience and several years of experience creating and standardizing complex architectures in hardware and out-of-band, ideally with VS-NfD infrastructures
• Deep experience with hypervisors, focusing on VMware products such as VMware ESX, VMware Tanzu, VMware NSX, as well as automation with VMware-based infrastructures at enterprise level
• x86 server architectures (hardware and management tools) from well-known vendors; good knowledge of HCI systems, IBM POWER architecture and IBM z Systems is desirable
• Good communication and analytical skills and willingness to change
• Fluent German, spoken and written