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IT Architect Operations & Platform Architecture

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  • Level
    Experienced
  • Job Field
    IT, DevOps
  • Employment Type
    Full Time
  • Contract Type
    Permanent employment
  • Salary
    70.000 to 85.000€ gross/year
  • Location
    Dresden, Bonn
  • Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Job Summary

    In this role, you take technical responsibility for on-premise and private cloud platforms, design complex infrastructures, and optimize DevOps teams while making architecture decisions with strategic and cost-awareness.

    Job Technologies

    Your role in the team

    • As an IT architect, you assume overall technical and architectural responsibility for on-premise and private cloud platforms.
    • You design, evaluate, and develop complex on-premise infrastructures, Kubernetes-based operations and deployment environments, as well as Shared Service and Managed Service architectures.
    • With your expertise, you plan technical projects, design solution architectures during transitions, and make strategic technology decisions.
    • You ensure that high availability, scalability, multi-tenancy, and security by design are maintained at all times.
    • In doing so, you establish a controlled operational environment that promotes quality and development through KPIs and skillfully incorporate governance requirements such as corporate security or industry standards (including critical infrastructure) into the architecture.
    • You always make architectural decisions with regard to costs, efficiency, and economic viability, considering the balance between standardization and customized solutions, as well as platform or individual solutions.
    • In addition, you evaluate technical options and prepare them as management and portfolio decision-making bases.
    • You lead DevOps and System Engineering teams, architects, and other technical team members in operations and continuously optimize organizational frameworks such as operational models, roles and responsibilities, as well as interfaces between operations, delivery, and platform.
    • You work closely with internal teams, clients, and management, translating complex technical issues into understandable architecture narratives and solid decision-making foundations.

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    Our expectations of you

    Qualifications

    • In-depth knowledge of on-premise data center/network, virtualization, and storage.
    • Practical experience with automation & configuration management (Ansible / Puppet) as well as working with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, ArgoCD.
    • Strategic, architectural thinking, high implementation orientation, as well as a structured and documentation-rich approach.
    • Familiar with agile working methods (Scrum, Kanban).
    • Strong communication and moderation skills, as well as confident presence in technical and business discussions.
    • High level of personal responsibility, decisiveness, and ability to provide technical leadership without disciplinary authority.
    • Knowledge of Policy-as-Code (OPA, Kyverno).
    • Know-how in the area of Service Mesh (e.g., Istio).

    Experience

    • At least 3 years of experience in an architecture or senior/expert engineer role in an operations environment.
    • Experience in Kubernetes platform management (Rancher) and expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / OpenTofu).
    • Extensive experience in SLA-based operations, incident and change management, as well as platform and managed services.
    • Experience with security and compliance requirements (e.g., PSA process, GDPR, BSI Basic Protection).
    • Experience in a regulated or telecommunications customer environment.

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    What we offer

    • For this position, we anticipate a gross annual salary of €70,000.00 to €85,000.00.
    • The specific classification is based on objective and gender-neutral criteria, in particular professional qualifications, relevant work experience, and the scope of responsibilities associated with the role.
    • People matter to us.
    • We actively promote pay equity and design our compensation structures to be transparent and non-discriminatory.
    • Regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, age, sexual orientation, or disability, we embrace diversity and oppose all forms of discrimination.

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    Benefits

    Work-Life-Integration

    Health, Fitness & Fun

    Higher Take-Home Pay

    Topics You Will Work On

    Job Locations

    • Location Bonn

      Nordrhein-Westfalen

      Germany

    • Location Dresden

      Sachsen

      Germany

    About Your Employer

    Deutsche Telekom AG

    Deutsche Telekom AG

    We are paving the way for a Gigabit society: As one of the leading companies in communications and information technology, we are shaping the digital world of tomorrow with innovative solutions for private and business customers.

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  • Company Type
    Established Company
  • Working Model
    Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
  • Industry
    Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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    IT Architect Operations & Platform Architecture

    Salary
    70.000 to 85.000€ gross/yearEstimated net salary based on the gross salary in the job ad using tax class I.42.583 to 50.675 € net/year · Tax class I
    Location
    Dresden, Bonn
    Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
    Diversity
    Open for all genders

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