Infrastructure, DevOps Architect

Giesecke+Devrient GmbH

München, Germany

1 day ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

10 years minimum

Compensation

€80,000.0 - €100,000.0

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.arbeitsagentur.de

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Architectural Patterns Microsoft Azure Computer Networks Databases Continuous Integration DevOps Disaster Recovery Key Management NoSQL Role-Based Access Control Reliability Engineering

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Ansible Prometheus Zero Trust Network Access Runbook Trusted Systems Policy as Code Pulumi Load Balancing Istio System Availability Grafana Firewalls (Computer Science) Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Containerization Kubernetes Information Technology Low Latency Terraform Docker Vulnerability Analysis

Job description

Develop and own the infrastructure and platform roadmap, evaluate and recommend technologies and architectural patterns to support infrastructure scalability, cost efficiency, and agility
Define comprehensive technical specifications, with strong emphasis on non-functional requirements: security (zero-trust, encryption, policy-as-code, compliance frameworks), performance (latency, throughput, high availability, disaster recovery), reliability, observability, and cost optimization
Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps practices using tools such as Terraform/OpenTofu, Pulumi, Helm, ArgoCD/Flux, and Ansible
Act as a technical leader and mentor to platform engineers, SREs, DevOps teams, and application developers. Foster strong collaboration between infrastructure/platform teams and product/engineering groups
Produce high-quality, living documentation: architecture decision records (ADRs), design blueprints, runbooks, standards & guardrails, and platform user guides; following best practices
Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate infrastructure risks, including security vulnerabilities, single points of failure, compliance gaps, operational drift, and cost overruns

Requirements

10+ years in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or architecture roles, with5+ years focused on production-scale Kubernetes and cloud platforms
Deep expertise in Kubernetes (architecture, operators, CNI/service mesh, multi-cluster federation, upgrades at scale)
Strong hands-on experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure) and hybrid/on-premiss integrations
Proficiency in IaC (Terraform preferred), GitOps, containerization (Docker), CI/CD tooling, and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenTelemetry)
Solid understanding of databases (relational, NoSQL, distributed), networking (VPC, SDN,load balancing, firewalls), and security best practices (RBAC, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability scanning)
Proven track record defining non-functional requirements and delivering high-availability, performant, secure systems
Excellent communication and leadership skills; experience mentoring teams and influencing stakeholders

About the company

At G+D, we are creating confidence, with built-in security tech in three segments: Digital Security, Financial Platforms and Currency Technology. To our customers, we have been a reliable partner for more than 170 years. With our offering, we are well positioned to support them on their future journey. Discover our innovative SecurityTech solutions!