Sr. Solutions Architect - Innovation Lab (m/f/d)

About Role

At Digital Realty, we're building the next generation of AI-ready infrastructure. We're looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to join our Digital Realty Innovation Lab (DRIL), where new ideas are transformed into practical solutions for our customers and our business.

This role combines architecture, engineering, and innovation. You'll help design modern infrastructure that supports AI, cloud, and enterprise workloads while collaborating with experts across engineering, operations, and facilities.

We're looking for someone with strong infrastructure experience who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, learning new technologies, and working with cross-functional teams. You don't need to have experience with every technology listed below—we value curiosity, adaptability, and a willingness to learn.

What You'll Do

Design Modern Infrastructure

• Design scalable infrastructure solutions for enterprise, hybrid cloud, and AI workloads.
• Create architectures that balance performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Help customers and internal teams plan for high-performance compute, storage, networking, and data center capacity.

Build and Evaluate Solutions

• Develop proof-of-concepts and prototype emerging technologies.
• Work with technologies from leading infrastructure vendors including Dell, HPE, NVIDIA, Cisco, NetApp, Juniper, and major cloud providers.
• Leverage automation and Infrastructure-as-Code tools to improve deployment and operational efficiency.

Collaborate Across Teams

• Partner with facilities, operations, and engineering teams to ensure solutions align with data center space, power, and cooling requirements.
• Support planning for both traditional enterprise infrastructure and next-generation AI deployments.
• Share technical guidance with internal stakeholders and customers.

Drive Innovation

• Participate in research and development initiatives within DRIL.
• Help evaluate new technologies and identify opportunities to improve performance, sustainability, and operational efficiency.
• Present findings and recommendations to technical and business audiences.

Share Knowledge

• Mentor teammates and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.
• Create documentation, reference architectures, and best practices that help teams work consistently and efficiently.

What you´ll bring

Required

• Several years of experience designing or implementing enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Experience with compute, storage, networking, virtualization, or cloud technologies.
• Understanding of modern data center infrastructure and enterprise architectures.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A collaborative approach to solving technical challenges.

Nice to Have

• Bachelors or masters degree in related field
• Experience with AI or high-performance computing infrastructure.
• Familiarity with GPU-based platforms, Kubernetes, or container technologies.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience using automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Knowledge of data center planning, including power, cooling, and rack design.
• Industry certifications such as AWS, Cisco, NVIDIA, VMware, or PMP.

About DRIL:

The Digital Realty Innovation Lab (DRIL) is the center of innovation and experimentation within Digital Realty. DRIL brings together infrastructure architects, engineers, and technologists to prototype and implement next-generation solutions across AI, cloud, edge, and hybrid environments. Our team shapes the future of connected infrastructure with a focus on sustainability, performance, and scale.

A bit about us

Digital Realty is the leading provider of carrier and cloud neutral data centre services by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 28 countries on 6 continents. We've 3,500+ colleagues around the world who work together, come up with life-changing solutions and create connections that matter every day. 

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.