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# Cloud Platform Architect Azure

- **Company:** Giesecke+Devrient
- **Location:** El Prat de Llobregat, Spain (Remote available)
- **Salary:** €17,264.0 - €35,984.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Information Systems, Computer Networks, Databases, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Key Management, NoSQL, OpenStack, Scrum Methodology, Role-Based Access Control, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Prometheus, Load Balancing, Cloud Platform System, Istio, Grafana, Generative AI, Firewalls (Computer Science), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Containerization, AI Platforms, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Docker, Vulnerability Analysis
- **Published:** October 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3f800f522e2ba850

## About the Role

* At least Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
 * 10+ years in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or architecture roles, with 5+ years focused on production-scale Kubernetes and public cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, sovereign/Open Stack)
 * Deep expertise in Kubernetes (architecture, operators, CNI/service mesh, multi-cluster federation, upgrades at scale).
 * Strong hands-on experience, including complex multi-account and multi-region architectures and integrations within public cloud ecosystems.
 * 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 on public cloud platforms.

## Description

Together with the Business Cloud Services team, the Azure Cloud Architect will define, design and govern secure, scalable and resilient cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure, enabling cloud-native platforms and business-critical services across multiple business domains and environments. The Azure Cloud Architect will drive technology standards, architecture best practices and cloud adoption strategies, ensuring alignment between business requirements, security, compliance and operational excellence while supporting engineering teams throughout the solution lifecycle.The role requires an automation-first mindset and close collaboration within an international Scrum team across Spain, Germany and India., * Analysis of business and technical requirements and translate them into secure, scalable, resilient cloud architectures across public and sovereign cloud environments.

 * Design and own end-to-end cloud solutions covering compute, networking, storage, data, security, identity, observability, integration.
 * Architect cloud-native solutions across multiple providers, including AWS, Azure, SysEleven and other public or sovereign cloud platforms, selecting the right services and technologies for each use case.
 * Design architectures for sovereign and regulated workloads, addressing data residency, isolation, encryption, compliance, portability, and operational control.
 * Evaluate and integrate AI/ML and GenAI capabilities, including AI platforms, model hosting, data pipelines, vector databases, inference workloads, and associated security and compliance requirements.
 * Define technical specifications and architecture decisions, leveraging Infrastructure as Code and GitOps.
 * Collaborate closely with other architects, product engineering, platform, DevOps, SRE, security, and data teams to turn requirements into implementable solutions and resolve complex technical challenges.
 * Identify and mitigate architecture risks, technical dependencies, security and operational concerns, maintaining architecture documentation, ADRs, blueprints, and standards.