Platform Engineer - Network Infrastructure & Security (m / f / d) - Inklusiver Job 🦼 🦻 🦯

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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization :

This role designs and delivers secure, scalable LAN, WLAN, and WAN solutions while defining and enforcing global network standards. It provides deep expertise in Cisco infrastructure and cloud firewall platforms, working closely with Network Operations and vendors to ensure stable, high-quality service. The role translates business needs into clear technical requirements, acceptance criteria, and test plans, and leads end-to-end testing and pilots of new solutions. It governs configuration, patching, CMDB, and change management, and oversees vendor-led Incident and Problem Management. With a strong focus on governance, risk reduction, and continuous improvement, this role is critical to global network reliability and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities :

Technical Key Responsibilities :

Design and deploy network solutions (LAN, WLAN, WAN) for new sites and projects.

Establish and enforce global network standards and policies.

Maintain expertise and documentation for core technologies, including Cisco-based infrastructure and physical / cloud firewall platforms (e.g., Zscaler, Checkpoint).

Collaborate with and provide technical guidance to the network operations team to ensure service stability.

Proven experience managing network configuration standards and large-scale deployments.

Strong technical knowledge of relevant infrastructure platforms and tools.

Solid understanding of ITIL Change and Release Management processes.

Skilled in vendor management, governance, and risk mitigation.

Specialist advice

Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.

Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the organization’s planning and operations.

Recognizes and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.

Collaborates with other specialists, where appropriate, to ensure advice given is appropriate to the needs of the organization.

Emerging technology monitoring

Supports monitoring of the external environment and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate the potential impacts, threats, and opportunities to the organization.

Contributes to the creation of reports, technology road mapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights.

Programming / software engineering

Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends, and refactors complex programs / scripts and integration software services.

Contributes to selection of the software development approach for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative / agile) approaches.

Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve well-engineered outcomes.

Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.

System design

Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns, and methodology.

Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.

Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements.

Models, simulates, or prototypes the behavior of proposed systems components to enable approval by stakeholders.

Produces detailed design specification to form the basis for construction of systems. Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications.

Database design

Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software, and facilities.

Assesses proposed changes to object / data structures, to evaluate alternative options.

Implements physical database designs to support transactional data requirements for performance and availability.

Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics.

Testing

Reviews requirements and specifications and defines test conditions.

Designs test cases and test scripts under own direction, mapping back to pre-determined criteria, recording and reporting outcomes.

Analyses and reports test activities and results.

Identifies and reports issues and risks associated with own work.

Systems integration and build

Defines the software modules needed for an integration build and produces a build definition for each generation of the software.

Accepts completed software modules, ensuring that they meet defined criteria.

Produces software builds from software source code for loading onto target hardware.

Configures the hardware and software environment as required by the system being integrated.

Produces integration test specifications, conducts tests and records and reports on outcomes.

Diagnoses faults and records and reports on the results of tests. Produces system integration reports.

Porting / software configuration

Configures software and equipment and tests platform-specific versions of one or more software products.

Reports the outcome of testing and identifies potential improvements to the process and to the software products according to agreed designs and standards.

Service level management

Performs defined tasks to monitor service delivery against service level agreements and maintains records of relevant information.

Analyses service records against agreed service levels regularly to identify actions required to maintain or improve levels of service, and initiates or reports these actions.

Release and deployment

Assesses and analyses release components.

Provides input to scheduling.

Carries out the builds and tests in coordination with testers and component specialists maintaining and administering the tools and methods – manual or automatic - and ensuring, where possible, information exchange with configuration management.

Ensures release processes and procedures are maintained.

Key Relationships :

Business Stakeholder / User

Business Consultant / Analysts

Platform & Software Engineers

Solution Architects

IT Infrastructure

IT Security

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications :

Four-year college or university degree with focus on IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience

Proficient spoken and written command of English

At least 5-year experience in IT

2 years of experience in relevant area

1 year of experience in team management

Understanding of different culture

Participated in projects with people from other functions / markets

adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace. We do not tolerate the harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees. We are an equal opportunity employer.