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General Dynamics European Land

Systems (GDELS), headquartered in Madrid (Spain), is part of General Dynamics and brings together more than 3,000 professionals across five countries. Our purpose is to deliver military mobility solutions that include armored vehicles, amphibious bridges, and artillery systems. An environment that fosters collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement-where every voice matters, and every idea can become a real breakthrough.

GDELS –Santa Bárbara Sistemas contributes to this mission as a key player in the design, manufacturing, and maintenance of armored vehicles and artillery in Spain. The IT Architect is responsible for defining, designing, and governing robust, scalable, and secure IT infrastructure solutions across hybrid environments. This role ensures that architecture aligns with business strategy, cybersecurity frameworks, enterprise standards, and technology roadmaps.

The IT Architect serves as the design authority for mission‐critical platforms, enabling modernization, operational excellence, and long‐term scalability. Design and implement end to end IT infrastructure solutions aligned with business requirements, enterprise architecture, and security standards: Conduct detailed business and technical analysis to define infrastructure requirements and translate them into architectural designs (HLD/LLD). Develop and maintain IT infrastructure architecture standards, patterns, and guidelines across all technology domains.

Evaluate and recommend new infrastructure technologies to drive performance, resilience, and efficiency. Ensure alignment with general GDELS architecture, cybersecurity, and compliance frameworks. Collaborate with network, security, cloud, workplace, and operations teams to ensure architectural integrity and successful implementation.

Support project delivery as design authority, ensuring adherence to standards and best practices.



Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, diagrams, and operational guides Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and architectural coaching to engineering teams.

Compute Architecture

Windows/Linux server architecture, OS standards, CIS hardening, golden image strategy. Virtualization & Containerization VMware vSphere, resource pools, HA/DRS design, template management. Storage & Backup/Recovery Architecture SAN/NAS, backup policies, immutable backups, DR runbooks, RPO/RTO planning.

Hybrid

Cloud &

• Azure Architecture Landing zones, identity integration, governance, cost control, network connectivity, policy-as-code. Network &

• Connectivity Foundations Integration with segmentation models, VPN/SD WAN, Zero Trust principles, SASE touchpoints. Monitoring &

• Observability Metrics, logs, health dashboards, event correlation, alerting thresholds. Automation &

• Orchestration Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management What is the profile required? Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. Minimum 8+ years experience in infrastructure design, engineering, and lifecycle management.

Strong foundational knowledge of: Servers and operating systems Networks and connectivity Storage systems Databases Virtualization platforms Proven experience with: VMware vSphere and/or Citrix virtualization Azure or AWS cloud environments (Azure preferred) Backup/DR systems and high availability design Network fundamentals and secure connectivity Experience with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF. Excellent technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills Strong communication and collaboration skills IT certifications (e.g., TOGAF, Cisco CCNP, VMware VCP) desired Highly committed Advanced English written and spoken, Spanish and/or German is a plus What do we offer? Participate in major national and international projects.

Join a highly qualified team where you can develop a solid professional career. Flexible compensation package, with benefits such as childcare, transportation, or training. Hybrid remote working model.

📌 Senior Infrastructure / Systems Engineer (Madrid)
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📍 Madrid