Manager Solution Architecture

Location: Sydney

Your role

This role is ideal for a professional with a blend of strategic architectural expertise and hands on engineering experience across compute, storage, and networking-plus strong domain knowledge in AI infrastructure, Software Defined Networks and data center space, power, and cooling.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of experience architecting complex infrastructure solutions, holds a Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred) in a related field, and thrives in environments that demand innovative thinking, excellent communication, and effective program/project management.

What you'll do Solution Selling and Technical Consultation

• Strong ability to focus ambiguous customer needs into specific, deliverable requirements
• Able to facilitate workshop style sessions with customers to extract important areas of customers current architecture. Can keenly couple key insights to present highly technical concepts and solutions specific to audiences of varying technical capabilities in a clear, concise and easily understood manner
• Professional pre sales consultation of customer technical requirements to develop viable solutions, resulting in bookings.
• Quickly and accurately assess current operations, identify opportunities for architectural changes to drive additional business benefit
• Ability to extract unrealized customer requirements, and service benefits, gaining consensus with data driven positioning.
• Cost estimation, with a focus of helping customers understand return on investment as well as total cost of ownership advantages of solutions proposed
• Coach and provide technical leadership to others on network designs, platform sizing, infrastructure system design and the application of new technologies and project management methodologies

Networking

• Substantial telecommunications experience required; technical and commercial knowledge of Internet, MPLS and IPVPN topologies and architectures required
• Proficient in router and switch features and configuration, fault tolerant designs, and QOS mapping
• Experience with routing and switching protocols; SDN/NFV, performance measurement, tuning and scaling, and reliability and security techniques
• Experience with Network Peering, Internet Exchanges and CDNs
• Datacenter networking technologies and architectures (Leaf Spine architectures, Data Center Interconnect technologies)
• Architect and deploy robust infrastructure using hardware/software from vendors such as Dell, HPE, NVIDIA, Cisco, NetApp, and Juniper.
• Apply deep knowledge of high performance computing (HPC) and low latency networking to AI/ML solution design.

Data Center Optimization

• Collaborate with facilities and operations teams to optimize infrastructure deployments based on available rack space, power draw, thermal dynamics, and airflow efficiency.
• Contribute to the planning and provisioning of data center resources, ensuring support for both traditional workloads and AI intensive environments.
• Evaluate emerging technologies for space, power, and cooling efficiency in next gen data center deployments.
• Must have a thorough understanding of, and experience with servers, storage, layer 3 networking and enterprise software. Solid understanding of the entire OSI stack is a must
• Experience with data center virtualization, software defined data centers and hyper converged infrastructure solutions
• Software and Database system development
• Storage Platform technologies (SAN/NAS) including Hardware and Software (EMC/NetApp/Sun/IBM/HP/VMware/Citrix/Brocade/Juniper)

Innovative Architecture & Infrastructure Design

• Knowledge of enterprise grade solutions that integrate hybrid/multi cloud, AI ready compute, and intelligent infrastructure platforms.
• Ensure alignment of technical solutions including interconnectivity, data center space, power, and cooling capacities, incorporating sustainability and energy efficiency goals.

Knowledge Sharing

• Proactively share knowledge and experience across sales and solutions teams to enable continuous learning and best practice adoption.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures, design standards, and lab documentation to drive consistency and scalability.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field required.
• 10+ years of hands on experience in network architecture, infrastructure architecture, systems engineering, or solution architecture.
• Knowledge of AI/ML infrastructure design (e.g., NVIDIA GPUs, distributed compute, high speed storage).
• Demonstrated understanding of data center operational constraints including power provisioning, rack planning, and cooling technologies.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise networking (routing/switching, SDN), storage platforms (SAN/NAS), and compute systems (virtualized, bare metal, HCI).
• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid cloud strategies.
• Familiarity with HPC architectures and containerization technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) for AI workloads.
• Relevant technical certifications such as Cisco CCNP/CCIE, NVIDIA Certified, VMware VCP, or PMP.
• Strong communication and presentation skills across diverse audiences.
• Excellent organizational and time management abilities.
• Strategic thinker with a hands on approach to technical problem solving.

Compensation

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

EEO Statement

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Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled. All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or other status protected by law or Company policy.