Infrastructure Team Lead

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

G+D makes the lives of billions of people around the world more secure. We shape trust in the digital age with built-in security tech in three segments: 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 collaboration within G+D.

We are the reliable partner for all challenges resulting from the Internet of Things. We offer a complete connectivity portfolio for mobile network operators, automotive manufacturers, technology companies such as chip and module manufacturers as well as transport and logistics providers. Our portfolio includes highly secure solutions in the area of connectivity & IoT, from classic SIM, eSIM and iSIM, to the associated embedded operating systems and life cycle management, through to services for global connectivity and IoT solutions. Do you want to actively shape the digital transformation with us?

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

What We Offer

• Culture and Diversity: Join a people oriented environment with different nationalities and a great team spirit, flat hierarchies (everyone speaks to everyone). Equal Opportunity Employer and LGBT+ friendly.
• Global Teams: Enjoy collaborative work in Agile/SCRUM teams and with stakeholders around the globe.
• Innovative Products: Design and develop business processes and IT solutions for innovative products and digital solutions.
• Career Development: Continuous training and coaching, talent program.
• Benefits: Private medical insurance & transport ticket) and in-house parking.
• Flexible work time and remote work: Core time Mo-Th 9:30 – 17:00, 3 days of remote work.
• Own Canteen: Take a break with our breakfast and lunch service: Choose between a big range of menus, salad desk and sandwich service. Fruit packages.
• Location: Sant Joan Despí. Easy communication by public transport or private transport.

Learn more about G+D

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