[Hiring] Infrastructure, DevOps Architect @Giesecke+Devrient

Role 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
  • 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.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or architecture roles, with 5+ 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-premises 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.