Infra Platform Lead — Kubernetes, Cloud & IaC

Giesecke+Devrient; Sant Joan Despí; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Transport ticket

In-house parking

Flexible work time and remote work

Canteen

Job summary

Giesecke+Devrient in Sant Joan Despí is seeking an experienced infrastructure/Platform Engineer to lead the roadmap for our internal cloud, Kubernetes, and IaC initiatives. You will drive security, performance, and reliability while mentoring SREs and DevOps teams.

You will champion IaC and GitOps, define standards, and collaborate closely with product and engineering groups to ensure scalable, secure systems across global platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or architecture roles.
• 5+ years focused on production-scale Kubernetes and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the infrastructure and platform roadmap, evaluate technologies.
• Define technical specifications with emphasis on security, performance, reliability, observability, and cost.
• Champion IaC and GitOps practices using Terraform/OpenTofu, Pulumi, Helm, ArgoCD/Flux, Ansible.
• Mentor platform engineers, SREs, DevOps, and developers; foster collaboration.
• Produce ADRs, design blueprints, runbooks, standards, guardrails, and platform guides.
• Identify and mitigate risks including security, single points of failure, and cost overruns.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

CI/CD

Observability

Cloud security

AWS

Azure

Tools

Docker

Ansible

Helm

ArgoCD

Flux

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

Giesecke+Devrient in Sant Joan Despí is seeking an experienced infrastructure/Platform Engineer to lead the roadmap for our internal cloud, Kubernetes, and IaC initiatives. You will drive security, performance, and reliability while mentoring SREs and DevOps teams.

You will champion IaC and GitOps, define standards, and collaborate closely with product and engineering groups to ensure scalable, secure systems across global platforms.