[Hiring] Toolchain Architect - Senior @Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions

Role Description

Support on developing Container Engineering Portfolio with a high Customer focus.

• Plan and Build CI/CD Toolchains
• Support customer in cloud integration deployments
• Review existing Toolchains
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - (Ansible, Terraform, Crossplane)
• Declarative vs. Imperative IaC
• Secrets Handling
• Multi-Environment strategy
• GitOps & Declarative Delivery Modelle - (ArgoCD, Flux, Git)
• Git as Single Source of Truth
• Pull- vs. Push-Models
• Multi-Cluster GitOps Patterns
• Kubernetes & Plattform Engineering - (Kubernetes)
• Cluster-Architecture
• CNI / CSI / Ingress
• Multi-Cluster & Hybrid
• API-Extensions (CRDs, Operators)
• CI/CD & Toolchain-Architecture- (Jenkins, GitLAB)
• Pipeline Design Patterns
• Systemintegration in existing landscapes
• Integration in Legacy-Systems
• On-Prem ↔ Cloud Hybrid
• Understanding network topologies
• Cloud- & Hybrid-Architekturen
• Understanding public cloud concepts (AWS, Azure, T-Cloud Public, GCP)
• Private Cloud Integration
• Security & Compliance (DevSecOps) - (Vault, Secrets Manager)
• Secrets Management
• RBAC & IAM
• Policy as Code
• Observability & Operations - (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos, Open Telemetry, ...)
• Metrics, Logs, Traces
• Alerting strategies
• Metrics Visualization
• Architecture reviews
• Understand and create Architecture diagrams
• Evaluate maturity of existing toolchains
• Detect best and bad practices
• Define migration scenarios
• Support on defining roadmaps

Qualifications

• Several years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Architecture
• Strong architectural and systems thinking
• Experience in enterprise-scale environments
• Ability to analyze and improve complex toolchains
• Customer-focused mindset and consulting skills
• Fluent in English (spoken and written)

Requirements

• Consulting or customer-facing project experience (Nice to Have)
• Experience modernizing legacy systems (Nice to Have)
• Platform engineering or Internal Developer Platform (IDP) experience (Nice to Have)
• Architecture review or governance background (Nice to Have)
• Business German (spoken and written) (Nice to Have)

Benefits

• Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Hungary due to European taxation regulation.

Company Description

As Hungary’s most attractive employer in 2025 (according to Randstad’s representative survey), Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions is a subsidiary of the Deutsche Telekom Group. The company provides a wide portfolio of IT and telecommunications services with more than 5300 employees. We have hundreds of large customers, corporations in Germany and in other European countries.

DT-ITS received the Best in Educational Cooperation award from HIPA in 2019, acknowledged as the Most Ethical Multinational Company in 2019. The company continuously develops its four sites in Budapest, Debrecen, Pécs and Szeged and is looking for skilled IT professionals to join its team.