Infrastructure, DevOps Architect (m/f/d)
Giesecke+Devrient · Munich, Bavaria, Germany
DevOps
About this role
The Infrastructure/Platform Architect will define and own the infrastructure roadmap, focusing on scalability, security, and cost efficiency. You will champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps practices while mentoring platform engineers and SRE teams. The role involves setting high standards for non-functional requirements, including high availability, disaster recovery, and observability. You will work closely with product and engineering groups to ensure robust, secure, and performant platform architectures. Additionally, you will produce technical documentation and proactively mitigate infrastructure risks across cloud and hybrid environments.
Skills & technologies
Must have
Nice to have
- Pulumi
- OpenTofu
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G+D makes the lives of billions of people around the world more secure. We create trust in the digital age with integrated security technologies in three business areas: Digital Security, Financial Platforms and Currency Technology. We have been a reliable partner for our customers for over 170 years with our innovative solutions for SecurityTech! We are an international technology group and traditional family business with over 14,000 employees in 40 countries. Creating Confidence is our path to success. Trust is the basis of our co-operation within G+D. Maybe soon for you too?
Your Responsibilities:
Your Responsibilities:
- 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
- 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
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