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NTT DATA is looking for a Senior Private Cloud Enterprise Architect to design, build and evolve a strategic client’s new Private Cloud capability as part of its wider Hybrid Multi-Cloud strategy.
The client and NTT DATA have agreed to begin the new Private Cloud journey using Red Hat OpenShift. The challenge is much broader than deploying an OpenShift platform.
The Private Cloud must provide a cloud-like consumption experience across a brownfield enterprise environment, combining container and virtualized workloads, automation, self-service, infrastructure services, security, resilience, observability and consumption-based management.
The initial European platform will be implemented within the client’s existing Eindhoven data-center environment and must integrate with existing infrastructure, including computing, storage, backup, networking and enterprise-management capabilities.
You will work closely with the client’s Cloud and Enterprise Architects and with NTT DATA’s platform, engineering, network, security, transformation and operations teams.
The client retains strategic architecture, policy, sovereignty, and key approval authority. Private Cloud strategic architecture, standards, service design and engineering are co-created with the client. Your role is therefore to bring the technical depth and architectural leadership needed to turn that direction into a coherent, implementable and supportable Private Cloud platform.
This is a client-facing role. You will work directly with client stakeholders in day-to-day architecture and delivery discussions and represent NTT DATA at senior technical level.
This role requires availability to work on-site in Eindhoven three days per week.
What you will do
• Act as NTT DATA’s senior strategic and technical advisor for Private Cloud.
• Build a trusted working relationship with the client’s Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Security and platform teams.
• Co-create Private Cloud architecture and service-design decisions within the client’s retained architecture and governance framework.
• Provide architectural leadership for the OpenShift-based Private Cloud platform and its evolution.
• Ensure the platform supports both modern containerized services and the practical integration and migration needs of the client’s existing virtualized estate.
• Translate requirements into scalable platform architectures and implementable high-level and low-level designs.
• Guide the integration of compute, virtualization, container platforms, storage, backup, networking and platform services into one coherent Private Cloud.
• Ensure the design integrates effectively with the existing NetApp storage and Rubrik backup capabilities and with the new dedicated Private Cloud network.
• Provide architectural leadership around OpenShift, Kubernetes, virtualization, software-defined infrastructure and platform engineering.
• Guide Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, orchestration and automation patterns.
• Help establish reusable platform standards, blueprints, service patterns and architecture decision records.
• Support API-driven service consumption and integration with the Hybrid Multi-Cloud Internal Developer Portal and service catalogue.
• Guide integration with the client’s ServiceNow, CMDB/CSDM, IAM/PAM, security, observability and operational-management platforms.
• Support consumption-based service design, metering, showback and FinOps capabilities for the Private Cloud.
• Ensure security, sovereignty, isolation, resilience, recoverability and observability are embedded in platform design rather than added afterwards.
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