Solution Architect - Data Center Fabric & EDA SaaS Support Amadora

Solution Architect - Data Center Fabric & EDA SaaS Support
Amadora
Amadora, Lisboa, Portugal

Solution Architect - Data Center Fabric & EDA Saa
S Support

Join Nokia’s innovative Data Center Fabric (DCF) team, where
- edge hardware and software—like SR Linux, IXR series switches, and the Event-Driven Automation (EDA) platform—come together to power fully automated, scalable data center networks.

As a Solution Architect, you'll be at the heart of designing, deploying, and supporting these solutions. You’ll work
- on with Nokia’s technologies and
- party systems to validate deployments, troubleshoot issues, and ensure robust, scalable infrastructure. This role is perfect for engineers who thrive where
- level design meets
- world delivery and support.

You’ll collaborate closely with global teams, including customers, integration partners, architects, and R&D. You'll also help drive automation across the full network lifecycle—covering everything from configuration and policy enforcement to
- time monitoring and fault detection.

This is a chance to be part of a growing, Saa
S-focused environment where automation, reliability, and innovation are at the core of everything we do.

How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn

• Act as a technical lead for
  - facing DCF engagements, combining architecture knowledge with advanced technical troubleshooting.
• Participate in
  - and
  - level design creation, reviews, and validation for customer deployments.
• Provide guidance on Nokia's validated Data Center Fabric design best practices and solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex
  - level issues in
  - vendor,
  - domain environments.
• Reproduce customer issues in a lab setting, validate fixes, and manage escalations with R&D.
• Support the full
  - cycle of Data Center Fabric deployments — from integration, staging, and testing, through to
  - deployment operations.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders such as Product Line Management, Care, and Pre-sales to ensure successful solution adoption and satisfaction.
• Maintain ongoing customer interaction to provide updates, guidance, and maintain alignment with SLAs.

Key Skills And Experience

• 7+ years of experience in IP networking, with a strong focus on data center fabric solutions and routing technologies.
• Deep knowledge of L2/L3 protocols, including BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, EVPN, VXLAN, MPLS, and related technologies.
• Familiarity with Data Center design principles (leaf-spine, Clos fabrics,
  - based networking).
• Strong troubleshooting experience with
  - world deployment issues (system-level, underlay/overlay,
  - vendor).
• Experience with automation and management platforms (YANG, REST, g
  NMI, Ansible, Python, API, YAML).
• Experience with public cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS and Azure
• Working knowledge of
  - native technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Open
  Shift, VMware, Openstack, container networking.
• Hands-on experience with Nokia SR Linux and SROS Nokia routers highly preferred.
• Familiarity with lab environments and the ability to replicate customer scenarios for issue isolation.
• Excellent communication and customer interaction skills, with experience supporting or consulting external clients.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Telecommunications, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Certifications such as Nokia Data Center Fabric Professional, NRS I/II, Cisco CCIE/CCNP, or equivalent are assets.

About Us

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,
- 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 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

The pandemic has highlighted how important telecoms networks are to society. Nokia’s Network Infrastructure group is at the heart of a revolution to bring more and faster network capacity to people worldwide through our ambition, innovation, and technical expertise.