Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people's lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our global Network Team, based at our headquarters in Darmstadt. This is an individual contributor role with a strong focus on data center connectivity, network security controls, and integration patterns with cloud connectivity. Beyond hands-on engineering, you will help define, ensure, and enforce global standards and align with architects and technical leaders across infrastructure and business domains.
Design, implement, and operate enterprise network solutions with focus on data center networking and related services.
support design governance and exception handling.
Align with infrastructure and business architects to ensure end-to-end consistency across domains (including on-prem/private cloud and public cloud connectivity integration).
Engineer and operate network security components (e.g., segmentation, policy controls, secure connectivity patterns) in line with security and compliance requirements.
10+ years of experience in IT infrastructure / networking, including designing and operating enterprise network environments.
Strong network automation skills, ideally including Python scripting against network/ACI APIs, Ansible-based automation for Cisco ACI/Nexus and firewalls, solid Linux/Bash skills, and working with Git-centric workflows (code review, CI/CD-like pipelines for network changes).
Able to work independently, drive topics end-to-end, and influence through standards in a global, federated environment.
English required; German is a plus.
Willingness to travel (up to 10% domestic and 10% international).