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At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.




Role Purpose

The role is accountable for the architecture, roadmap and development decisions of network products, connectivity services and functionalities integration in line with Vodafone IT & Digital strategy assuring best practices and optimizing the business value. Works in a team, close to the Product Owner following the Agile methodology to transform the Network infrastructure and drives architectural coordination of complex and non-standard design aspects required to build physical and logical infrastructure across on-prem Datacentres and public clouds. This includes analysis of requirements and matching them with key Network products and architecture capabilities such as security, reliability, high availability, load balancing and redundancy.




What You’ll Do

Acts as technical authority for decisions pertinent to network technologies, product, solutions or software, translates the overall vision in target architecture and corresponding solution, reference designs, product specifications
Communicates with different stakeholders and with business to give direction, analyze demands, perform feasibility, provide valaidated inputs on business case development, provides technology and architecture recommendations
Recommends product or customized solution as appropriate to balance speed and quality in delivery, supports the actual deployment and implementation including standards and management of exemptions
Assures solution compliance to security, privacy, and regulatory needs including impact assessment of risks and business value
Recommends network technologies, automation frameworks and digital enablers evolution, supports the migration planning and software development to evolve legacy environments into new modernized archtiectures and capabilities.




Who You Are

• Strong background and experience in network services.
• Broad understanding of IP protocols at all layers of the stack and extensive experience with routing, firewall, network virtualisation and switching technologies, Public and private cloud IaaS and PaaS product engineering models and technologies, e.g. (Openstack, AWS, Azure)
• Network knowledge and network management experience in large scale Datacenter environment (e.g. Cisco ACI networking and various SDN technologies)
• International experience and background in a complex business environment essential as well as ability to work across an international and distributed team in a complex business environment, fluent English
• In-depth knowledge of IT, DC technology and process standards, well developed technical knowledge across a broad range of IT topics, Data-driven decision making, Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree or technical institute certificate in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field, Network Professional Certifications at Expert level.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to motivate and inspire others, able to deal with customers and employees, Deep network knowledge essential being able to lead the technical aspects of a Data Centre network
• 7+ years of work experience in designing, developing, deploying and / or administering Network infrastructure solutions at the expert certification level, Strong verbal and written communication skills



Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.




What's In It For You

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.

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