Technical Design Lead, DataCenter

Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.  

KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experience to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.

KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

KONE IT is a global team of expert professionals working along with business functions and area teams to develop new capabilities and enable new business opportunities. We are trusted partners of KONE business lines and functions to develop, transform, manage and run their information technology solutions. We support KONE in its digital transformation journey by introducing e.g. digital cloud-based IT services, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to support productivity, business growth and technological disruption. ​​​​​​​Sustainability, curious mindset and innovation are at the core of everything we do, and this makes us an integral part of KONE’s success.

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About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Data Center Technology Design Lead to drive architectural strategy, platform engineering, and automation across our global data centers. This role combines traditional data center technology design with enterprise file services architecture, specifically Nasuni, making it a central pillar in our modernization roadmap 

The ideal candidate brings strong multi‑technology skills, advanced automation capabilities, and deep experience with distributed storage/file platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Unified Technology Design, Architecture & Nasuni Ownership

• Lead end to end technology design for data center modernization across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, cloud services, and automation.

• Serve as SPOC for Nasuni across the global environment, including:

  • Global File System (GFS)

  • Edge filer/VM deployment patterns

  • Data flow, caching architecture, and performance tuning

  • Integration with cloud storage backends (Azure)

  • Identity integrations (AD/Azure AD) and access governance

• Closely work with Architect for:

  • Virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper V)

  • Hybrid cloud and edge computing workloads

  • Distributed storage and file services, including Nasuni

• Establish scalable DR, resilience, and replication strategies for both compute and Nasuni edge appliances.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive adoption of next-gen platforms beyond traditional VMware only environments.

Platform Engineering

• Oversee implementation and lifecycle engineering of:

• Compute, storage, virtualization, and network fabric

• Nasuni edge appliances, global file system configurations, and storage backends

• Build automation frameworks and IaC modules to deploy, maintain, and scale the data center platforms and Nasuni infrastructure

• Ensure seamless integration between Nasuni and other enterprise systems:

• Backup/DR

• Monitoring and analytics

• Identity & security tooling

Automation & AIOps

• Develop automations for provisioning, patching, configuration management, and platform compliance.

• Integrate Nasuni logs, events, and metrics into AIOps and monitoring platforms for:

• Event correlation

• Predictive alerting

• Automated healing workflows

• Ensure all data center platforms align to automation-first and zero-touch operational principles.

Operational Transition Support

• Contribute to knowledge transfer and documentation for managed service partners.

• Provide expert-level support in complex troubleshooting and infrastructure optimization.

• Build detailed runbooks, SOPs, platform documentation, and automated operational workflows.

• Validate partner implementation against architectural standards and compliance frameworks.

Required Skills & Experience

Core Technical Skills

• Strong background in data center technology architecture across compute, virtualization, network, and storage.

• Hands-on, expert-level experience with Nasuni:

  • Filer/Edge appliance deployment and configuration

  • Global File System (GFS) operations

  • Cloud storage integration

  • Performance tuning and caching optimization

  • Access permissions, identity integration, and security policies

• Proficiency with any of these automation tools:

  • Terraform, Ansible, Python, PowerShell or similar

• Good understanding of VMware, hyper-converged infrastructure, and Kubernetes / container platforms.

• Experience building hybrid cloud and distributed storage architectures.

AIOps & Observability

• Experience with any of the observability tools (Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, Prometheus, etc.).

• Understanding of event correlation, log ingestion pipelines, and automated remediation models.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving capabilities.

• Ability to lead architecture discussions and influence stakeholders.

• Excellent communication and documentation abilities.

• Adaptability to fast-paced technology environments and appetite for continuous learning.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8–12 years of experience in data center platform engineering or infrastructure architecture.

• Certifications such as VMware VCP/VCAP, Terraform Associate, CCNA, Kubernetes CKA/CKAD, etc.

• Experience working with global teams and managed service providers.

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

Read more on https://careers.kone.com/en/