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Giesecke+Devrient

Infrastructure, DevOps Architect (m/f/d)

Giesecke+Devrient Munich, Bavaria, Germany

IT Services and IT Consulting · 10,001+ employees

Oct 25
devops Principal (10+ yrs) Full-time Germany
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About the role

Develop and own the infrastructure and platform roadmap while defining technical specifications for security, performance, and scalability. Lead and mentor engineering teams while championing Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices.

What they look for

Kubernetes Infrastructure as Code Terraform GitOps AWS Azure Cloud platforms CI/CD Observability Prometheus Grafana Docker System architecture Security Leadership Mentoring

Requirements

Requires 10+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering with at least 5 years focused on production-scale Kubernetes and cloud platforms. Candidates must possess deep expertise in cloud providers, IaC tools, and system architecture design.

Benefits

Inclusive work environment Equal opportunity employer

Full description

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

Your Qualifications:

  • 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

$$ We are an equal opportunity employer! We promote diversity in all its forms and create an inclusive work environment, free from prejudice, discrimination and harassment, in which all employees feel a sense of belonging. We warmly welcome all applications regardless of gender, age, race or ethnic origin, social and cultural background, religion, disability and sexual orientation.

$$ Anna Lena Henkel $$ career@gi-de.com $$ $$ $$ https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?company=gieseckede&career_job_req_id=27035&career_ns=job_application

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