Company Description

Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2024, Continental generated preliminary sales of €39.7 billion and currently employs around 190,000 people in 55 countries and markets.

With its premium portfolio in the car, truck, bus, two-wheel and specialty tire segment, the Tires group sector stands for innovative solutions in tire technology. Intelligent products and services related to tires and the promotion of sustainability complete the product portfolio. For specialist dealers and fleet management, Tires offers digital tire monitoring and tire management systems, in addition to other services, with the aim of keeping fleets mobile and increasing their efficiency. With its tires, Continental makes a significant contribution to safe, efficient and environmentally friendly mobility. 

Job Description

The Solution Architect Network Services will be responsible to design, implement, and optimize our network services together with the internal teams.
The incumbent will be responsible for designing a secure, reliable, and efficient architecture for network services related to firewalls, WAN, load balancers and network security components that meet the needs of Continental Tires' internal clients. Additionally, the role involves identifying synergies across other solutions within the Tires IT infrastructure portfolio to co-develop cohesive target designs.

In detail your tasks include:

• Lead the redesign of network services (VPN, Meraki, RADIUS (WLAN), WAN, Internet Access) to ensure they meet the evolving needs of Continental Tires. Develop and design robust architectures for internal access services, ensuring they are secure, reliable, and efficient.
• Stakeholder Management: Work closely with internal and external stakeholders, including managed service providers, software and hardware vendors, technical teams, business units, and group sectors, to understand their needs and ensure the solutions align with their requirements.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance on BPA technologies, best practices, and industry standards and oversee the implementation of redesigned external access solutions, ensuring they are deployed effectively and efficiently.
• Continuous Improvement: Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of BPA services to ensure high availability and reliability, derive optimizations and ensure all solutions comply with relevant security standards, regulations, and best practices.
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of solution designs, architectures, and implementation processes.
• Network Management: Oversee and manage network components like gateways, firewalls, ISE clusters.
• Conduct hardware patching and configuration of complex network infrastructure to maintain optimal performance and security.

Qualifications

Your qualification:

• Academic degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent experience
• Several years of experience in network architecture or a related role, with a focus on VPN and RADIUS.

Skills:

• Strong understanding of network technologies protocols.
• Experience with network security principles and best practices.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing complex network architectures.
• Experience in cloud environments (preferably AWS, Azure, Alibaba and/or Google Cloud).
• Proficient in English, both spoken and written and intercultural sensitivity.
• Profound knowledge of state-of-the-art technology, trends and paradigms of IT

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications such as CCNP, CCIE or equivalent.
• Knowledge in agile frameworks, ITSM processes and DevOps (automation, infrastructure/configuration as code)

Applications from severely handicapped people are welcome.

Additional Information

Being part of a global IT team of thousands of colleagues working on various innovations and tasks, there is always an opportunity to grow and move into different directions within our corporation.

On top of that you can expect the following benefits:

• Individual development planning based on your personal needs and targets (e. g. mentoring, trainings or global internal Software Academy)
• Work from home up to 2 days a week (unless workshops etc. require physical presence)
• Option to work from other EU countries up to 40 days per year
• Agile and collaborative workstyle
• Opportunity to make a difference
• Employee discounts
• An international team across 4 locations in a globally active organization
• Company and tariff pension plan
• Health insurance
• Assistance with child-care
• Relocation package offered if needed
• Canteen on-site
• On-site physicians
• Sabbatical option

If this sounds like a perfect match for you and if you want to become the next supporter of our core values Trust For One Another, Passion to Win and Freedom to Act, we are looking forward receiving your application.

Network with our Recruiter Torben Schilke.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging are important to us and make our company strong and successful. We offer equal opportunities to everyone - regardless of age, gender, nationality, cultural background, disability, religion, ideology or sexual orientation.

Ready to drive with Continental? Take the first step and fill in the online application.

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