Toolchain Architect - Senior (REF5393L)

Support on developing Container Engineering Portfolio with a high Customer focus. 
•    Plan and Build CI/CD Toolchains
•    Support customer in cloud integration deployments

Review existing Toolchains

*Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - (Ansible, Terraform, Crossplane)
•    Declarative vs. Imperative IaC
•    Secrets Handling
•    Multi-Environment strategy
*GitOps & Declarative Delivery Modelle - (ArgoCD, Flux, Git)
•    Git as Single Source of Truth
•    Pull- vs. Push-Models
•    Multi-Cluster GitOps Patterns
*Kubernetes & Plattform Engineering - (Kubernetes)
•    Cluster-Architecture
•    CNI / CSI / Ingress
•    Multi-Cluster & Hybrid
•    API-Extensions (CRDs, Operators)
*CI/CD & Toolchain-Architecture- (Jenkins, GitLAB)
•    Pipeline Design Patterns
*Systemintegration in existing landscapes
•    Integration in Legacy-Systems
•    On-Prem ↔ Cloud Hybrid
•    Understanding network topologies 
*Cloud- & Hybrid-Architekturen
•    understanding public cloud concepts (AWS, Azure, T-Cloud Public, GCP)
•    Private Cloud Integration
*Security & Compliance (DevSecOps) - (Vault, Secrets Manager)
•    Secrets Management
•    RBAC & IAM
•    Policy as Code
*Observability & Operations - (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos, Open Telemetry, ...)
•    Metrics, Logs, Traces        
•    Alerting strategies
•    Metrics Visualization
*Architecture reviews
•    Understand and create Architecture diagrams
•    Evaluate maturity of existing toolchains
•    Detect best and bad practices
•    Define migration scenarios
•    Support on defining roadmaps

Experience & Skills

• Several years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Architecture
• Strong architectural and systems thinking
• Experience in enterprise‑scale environments
• Ability to analyze and improve complex toolchains
• Customer‑focused mindset and consulting skills
• Fluent English (spoken and written)

Nice to Have

• Consulting or customer‑facing project experience
• Experience modernizing legacy systems
• Platform engineering or Internal Developer Platform (IDP) experience
• Architecture review or governance background
• Business German (spoken and written)

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Hungary due to European taxation regulation.