G+D makes the lives of billions of people around the world more secure. We create trust in the digital age with integrated security technologies in three business areas: Digital Security, Financial Platforms and Currency Technology. We are an international technology group and traditional family business with over 14,000 employees in 40 countries.

The Project Within our Financial Platforms business, we offer

Filia , our Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) solution portfolio, to central banks around the world.

As customers have different infrastructure environments and cloud adoption strategies, we are looking for a

DevOps Architect

who can understand their infrastructure context and provide technical guidance on how to prepare and deploy the infrastructure required to host the solution.

Depending on the customer, this can involve

on-premises, cloud or hybrid environments , using bare metal, virtual machines or containers.

Your Responsibilities

Understand customer infrastructure environments and translate solution requirements into appropriate infrastructure recommendations.

Define

compute, storage, memory and networking requirements

for the solution.

Architect and set up the required virtualization layer, which may include

virtual machines or Kubernetes clusters , depending on the customer's environment.

Set up the solution on top of the selected infrastructure.

Provide guidance on

networking and security , including network segmentation and firewalling.

Design and advise on

redundancy and high-availability configurations .

Architect the integration between the virtualized infrastructure layer and technologies that do not run in a virtualized environment, such as

Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) .





Develop and own the infrastructure and platform roadmap, evaluating and recommending technologies and architectural patterns to support scalability, cost efficiency and agility.

Define technical specifications with a strong focus on non-functional requirements, including

security, performance, 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.

Produce and maintain technical documentation, including architecture decision records (ADRs), design blueprints, runbooks, standards and guardrails, and platform user guides.

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 of experience

in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE or architecture roles, with

5+ years focused on production-scale Kubernetes and cloud platforms .

Deep expertise in

Kubernetes , including architecture, operators, CNI/service mesh, multi-cluster federation and upgrades at scale.

Strong hands-on experience with

AWS and Azure , as well as hybrid and on-premises integrations.





Proficiency in

Infrastructure as Code , preferably Terraform, GitOps, Docker, CI/CD and observability technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK and/or OpenTelemetry.

Solid understanding of

databases

(relational, NoSQL and distributed), networking (VPC, SDN, load balancing and firewalls) and security best practices (RBAC, secrets management, encryption and vulnerability scanning).

Proven experience defining

non-functional requirements

and delivering highly available, performant and secure systems.

Strong understanding of

infrastructure redundancy and high-availability configurations .

Excellent communication and leadership skills, with 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.

General 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.

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.

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📌 DevOps Architect (Madrid)
🏢 Giesecke+Devrient
📍 Madrid