Senior DevOps Architect: Kubernetes, Cloud & IaC (Remote)

Giesecke+Devrient; Sant Joan Despí; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Transport ticket

Flexible remote work (3 days)

Canteen on site

Career development

Global teams

Diversity and inclusion

Job summary

Giesecke+Devrient in Sant Joan Despí is seeking a DevOps Architect to guide deployment of the Filia CBDC solution across customers' on-prem, cloud or hybrid environments. You will define compute, storage, memory, and networking requirements, set up virtualization layers with VMs or Kubernetes, and lead IaC and GitOps initiatives.

Strong leadership and deep Kubernetes know-how are essential. Join a global technology group delivering secure digital infrastructure solutions with a focus on

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE or architecture roles.
• 5+ years focused on production-scale Kubernetes and cloud platforms.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise including architecture, operators, CNI/service mesh, multi-cluster federation and upgrades at scale.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and Azure; hybrid and on-prem integrations.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), GitOps, Docker and CI/CD, plus observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenTelemetry).
• Strong understanding of databases, networking, security best practices (RBAC, secrets, encryption, vuln scanning).
• Proven experience defining non-functional requirements and delivering highly available, performant, secure systems.
• Excellent communication and leadership, mentoring teams and influencing stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer infrastructure environments and translate requirements into infrastructure recommendations.
• Define compute, storage, memory and networking requirements.
• Architect and set up virtualization layer with VMs or Kubernetes clusters.
• Set up solution on top of the chosen infrastructure.
• Provide guidance on networking and security, including segmentation and firewalling.
• Design redundancy and high-availability configurations.
• Architect integration between virtualized layer and non-VM environments (e.g., HSMs).
• Develop and own infrastructure and platform roadmap for scalability and cost efficiency.
• Define technical specs focusing on security, performance, HA, DR, reliability, observability and cost optimization.
• Champion IaC and GitOps using Terraform/OpenTofu, Pulumi, Helm, ArgoCD/Flux and Ansible.
• Mentor platform engineers, SREs, DevOps teams and developers.
• Produce and maintain ADRs, design blueprints, runbooks and guardrails.
• Identify and mitigate infrastructure risks (security, single points of failure, compliance, drift, cost overruns).

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Strategic thinking

Tools

Terraform

GitOps

Docker

CI/CD

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Giesecke+Devrient in Sant Joan Despí is seeking a DevOps Architect to guide deployment of the Filia CBDC solution across customers' on-prem, cloud or hybrid environments. You will define compute, storage, memory, and networking requirements, set up virtualization layers with VMs or Kubernetes, and lead IaC and GitOps initiatives.

Strong leadership and deep Kubernetes know-how are essential. Join a global technology group delivering secure digital infrastructure solutions with a focus on