Required skills
- Network Architecture
- Infrastructure Architecture
- Cisco
- Cisco ACI
- Routing
- Switching
- Data Center Security
- Firewall Architecture
- High Availability
- Scalability
- Enterprise Environments
- Stakeholder Management
Languages: German
Job description
Seeking a Principal Network & Infrastructure Architect with extensive experience in complex enterprise environments, focusing on Cisco technologies and ACI. The role involves designing, developing, and modernizing network and infrastructure landscapes, with a significant remote component.
Project overview
Currently, I am looking for a Principal Network & Infrastructure Architect (f/m/d) for my client:
Responsibilities
We are looking for a highly experienced Network and Infrastructure Architect who can technically shape complex enterprise environments and act as a technical sparring partner for stakeholders, project managers, and business departments.
Please send me your profile including your hourly rate expectation via email.
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If your expertise lies in a different direction, please feel free to contact me as well, so we can identify the right project option for you together.
I look forward to your message!
- Support in the conception and further development of network and infrastructure architectures
- Planning and optimization of complex Cisco ACI environments
- Analysis and evaluation of existing network and infrastructure environments regarding stability, scalability, and future viability
- Development of technical target architectures and modernization concepts
- Consulting relevant stakeholders on architecture and technology decisions
- Participation in infrastructure and transformation projects in the enterprise environment
- Coordination with business departments, project managers, and technical contacts
- Identification of pragmatic solutions for the sustainable further development of the existing IT landscape
Nice to have
- Experience with F5 technologies and load balancing solutions
- Experience in infrastructure and network transformation projects
- Experience with data center migrations or consolidation projects
- Relevant vendor certifications (e.g., Cisco, Security, or Architecture certifications)
Project details
01.11.2026
8 months with option for extension
Utilization: 60-100%
approx. 80% Remote, average of one week per month on-site in the greater Wolfsburg area
Project language: German and English
Must-haves:
- Many years of experience as a Network and/or Infrastructure Architect in complex enterprise environments
- Very good knowledge in the area of network architecture, routing, and switching
- Profound experience with Cisco technologies in the enterprise environment
- Very good knowledge of Cisco ACI
- Experience in the conception, further development, and modernization of network and infrastructure landscapes
- Experience with highly available and scalable infrastructure architectures
- Experience in evaluating existing network and infrastructure landscapes as well as developing target architectures
- Profound knowledge in the area of data center security and firewall architectures
- Experience in dealing with various stakeholders as well as in technical consulting for business departments and decision-makers
- Strong communication skills as well as a pragmatic and solution-oriented working style
- Start: ab sofort
- Duration: 8 Monate
- Remote: hybrid
- Location: Wolfsburg, Deutschland, DE
- Languages: German
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