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.
At Payment Technology, our mission is to be at the start of every transaction and to make it secure and simple. We also create contemporary payment and banking solutions for our digital age. As a one-stop shop, we produce and personalise hundreds of millions of payment cards every year and store their "digital twins" - mobile and digital. Would you like to actively shape the digital transformation with us?
At G+D, we are looking for a Cloud Platform Architect AWS to join our Business Cloud Services team, enabling highly secure, scalable cloud‑native services for central banks and payment providers worldwide.
You will work in an international Scrum team with colleagues based in Spain, Germany, and India, contributing to the design, deployment, and operation of mission‑critical cloud platforms.
Own the product infrastructure and platform roadmap, selecting AWS‑native and public cloud technologies to ensure scalability, cost efficiency, and agility
Define technical specifications for AWS‑based, cloud‑native systems, with a strong focus on security, performance, reliability, observability, and cost optimization
Drive Infrastructure as Code and GitOps adoption using tools such as Terraform / OpenTofu, Pulumi, Helm, ArgoCD / Flux, and Ansible
Act as a technical leader and mentor, enabling close collaboration between platform, DevOps, and product engineering teams across AWS environments
Serve as the primary point of contact for internal and external platform operations and SRE teams on AWS and public cloud topics
Create and maintain high‑quality platform documentation, including ADRs, architecture blueprints, runbooks, standards, and guardrails
Proactively identify and mitigate public cloud risks related to security, resilience, compliance, operations, and cost
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
~10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or architecture roles, with 5+ years focused on production‑scale Kubernetes and public cloud platforms (ideally AWS)
~ Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including architecture, operators, CNI / service mesh, multi‑cluster federation, and upgrades at scale
~ Strong hands‑on experience with AWS as the primary platform, and exposure to other major public cloud providers (such as Azure), including multi‑account and multi‑region architectures
~ Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (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, and secure systems on public cloud platforms
Global Collaboration: Enjoy collaborative work in Agile/SCRUM teams and with stakeholders around the globe.
High-performance PC with huge monitors.
Innovative Products: Design and develop business processes and IT solutions for innovative products and digital solutions.
Continuous training and coaching, talent program.
Social Benefits: flexible compensation (transport tickets, childcare vouchers, training, private insurance) and in-house parking.
Flexible work time and remote work: M-Th 8.30 – 17.30 and Fri 8.30 – 15.30, hybrid model.
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