Senior Infrastructure & Network Engineer - Germany
Summary
Senior infrastructure & network engineer owning Sungrow EMEA's data centers, networks, servers, storage and virtualization from the Munich office — daily operations, incident response, security/compliance and modernization projects. Core stack: Fortinet, Cisco (FTD/Nexus), VMware/Nutanix/KVM, Zabbix/Prometheus/Grafana, Python/Shell automation.
- Own the daily operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of Sungrow Europe’s data center infrastructure, networks, servers, storage, and virtualization platforms.
- Manage and optimize enterprise network services across European locations, including routing, resilience, performance, capacity, and high-availability design.
- Take dedicated responsibility for Munich office connectivity, including switches, Wi-Fi, firewalls, VPNs, internet services, and meeting-room networks.
- Lead technical troubleshooting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and sustainable corrective actions for complex infrastructure issues.
- Support modernization, expansion, migration, disaster recovery, and technology-refresh initiatives across infrastructure platforms.
- Strengthen security, compliance, and operational excellence through robust documentation, change management, vulnerability remediation, SOPs, and runbooks.
- You hold a degree in Computer Science, Network Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, along with at least three years of relevant infrastructure or enterprise network engineering experience.
- You bring hands-on experience with Fortinet firewalls, SD-WAN, Cisco Firepower FTD, Cisco Nexus 9000, and Cisco enterprise switching environments.
- You have strong knowledge of routing, switching, and security technologies, including BGP, OSPF, VRF, ACLs, QoS, STP, NAT, link aggregation, and high-availability architectures.
- You are comfortable operating VMware, Nutanix, and KVM-based virtualization platforms, with knowledge of VMware NSX-T and its security capabilities.
- You have worked with monitoring and observability tools such as Zabbix, Prometheus, and Grafana, and can use Python, Shell, PowerShell, or Perl for automation.
- You combine structured problem-solving with a proactive mindset for capacity planning, service improvements, documentation, implementation plans, and rollback procedures.
- You communicate confidently in English at C1 level; German at B2 level is an advantage, and Mandarin Chinese at B2 level or above is a strong advantage for collaboration with global technical teams.
- Certifications such as VMware VCP, CCNA or CCNP, Microsoft Azure Administrator, ITIL Foundation, Fortinet NSE, or Nutanix Certified Professional are welcome.
At Sungrow, you will help modernize enterprise infrastructure in a fast-moving greentech environment, while building practical solutions across data centers, networks, cloud platforms, and workplace technology.