Cloud Solution Architect

Job Description

Come create the technology that helps the world act together

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work.

What We Offer

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schedules, continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.

The team you'll be part of

Enterprise Infrastructure & Cloud Services lays the path for Nokia’s future technology innovation and identifies the most promising areas for Nokia to create new value. We set the company’s strategy and technology vision, offer an unparalleled research foundation for innovation, and provide critical support infrastructure for Nokia.

What You Will Learn And Contribute To

As part of our team, you will work as a Cloud Solution Architect performing the following functions:

• Design efficient, secure, adaptable, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions (data, networking, application)
• Drive all technical design and execution activities for moving existing on-premise infrastructure, server workloads, data and applications to the cloud IaaS and PaaS architectures.
• Communicate and socialize design and architecture design decisions.
• Communicate with senior leaders regarding the architecture, discuss problems and recommend solutions and improvements.
• Interact and work with application and business team members to provide the optimal environment for applications to deliver business functionality.
• Introduce and develop Infrastructure automation in the environment including IAC, CI/CD pipelines, and automated configuration management.
• Migration of workloads from on-premise/datacenter to Cloud
• Drive self-service automation initiatives
• Drive Product roadmap for Azure, GCP and AWS
• Drive generative AI initiatives
  
  

How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn

As part of our team, you will work as a Cloud Solution Architect performing the following functions:

• Design efficient, secure, adaptable, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions (data, networking, application)
• Drive all technical design and execution activities for moving existing on-premise infrastructure, server workloads, data and applications to the cloud IaaS and PaaS architectures.
• Communicate and socialize design and architecture design decisions.
• Communicate with senior leaders regarding the architecture, discuss problems and recommend solutions and improvements.
• Interact and work with application and business team members to provide the optimal environment for applications to deliver business functionality.
• Introduce and develop Infrastructure automation in the environment including IAC, CI/CD pipelines, and automated configuration management.
• Migration of workloads from on-premise/datacenter to Cloud
• Drive self-service automation initiatives
• Drive Product roadmap for Azure, GCP and AWS
• Drive generative AI initiatives
  
  

Key Skills And Experience

• 5+ years of overall experience in Cloud architecture
• Working with geographically distributed team across multiple time zone
• 3-5 years Infrastructure or Solution Architecture Experience designing and implementing cloud-based solution architectures for PaaS, IaaS or SaaS.
• Hands on experience with one of the three primary public clouds: AWS, GCP (preferred), or Azure.
• Experience designing and implementing the following foundational elements in a cloud architecture
• Knowledge or experience designing and implementing automation solutions like Infrastructure as Code (IAC) solutions to build up and tear down infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, GCP Deployment Manager, or Azure DevOps
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
  
  

It would be nice if you also had knowledge on:

• Security configuration, including but not limited to: network security, endpoint security, and data security
• Monitoring, Alerting, and Logging configuration including event threat detection, compliance monitoring, and data archival
• Network configuration, including but not limited to: Virtual Private Networks (VPN), forwarding rules, DNS, CDN, NAT)
• Identity and Access (IAM) configuration, including but not limited to: user and group administration, least privilege access design, organization, project and folder design.
• Experience designing and implementing solutions in a hybrid cloud environment including but not limited to implementation of a service mesh solution, e.g., Istio.
• Experience designing and implementing solutions in a multi-cloud environment
• Experience implementing architectures to support containerized applications including but not limited to: Kubernetes, Docker, Containers
• Experience integrating CI/CD development pipelines (e.g., Jenkins) with Cloud Infrastructure elements
  
  

Soft Skills

• Focused on quality and delivering results
• Take ownership and accountability
• Flexible in taking up different roles and tackling multiple technologies
• Work collaboratively on projects and help achieving company goals
• Strong analytic, organization, presentation, customer service and facilitation skills
• Ability to prioritize and execute on multiple concurrent initiatives with related or independent goals
• Be a Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
• Cost analysis and management
• Decision making/strategic thinking/negotiation skills
• Program management skills
• Leadership skills
  
  

About Us

Come create the technology that helps the world act together

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work

What we offer

Nokia offers continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

• One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
  
  

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people. Nokia’s employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.

About The Team

Strategy and Technology lays the path for Nokia’s future technology innovation and identifies the most promising areas for Nokia to create new value. We set the company’s strategy and technology vision, offer an unparalleled research foundation for innovation, and provide critical support infrastructure for Nokia.