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Lead Cloud Native Architekt (m/w/d)

Hamburg (Überseering 2)Full-time2026-09-18 → 2026-10-21

Core

Strategic architect responsible for defining and governing the cloud-native architecture, standards, and security landscape for a sovereign platform.

Role type

Lead Cloud Native Architect (Strategy & Governance)

Builds

Scalable, secure, and sovereign cloud-native platform infrastructure

Domain

Cloud Native / Cybersecurity / Enterprise IT

Required skills

Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps (Flux), Service Mesh (mTLS, Zero-Trust), Crossplane, Gardener, Security Architecture (BSI IT-Grundschutz), Policy Engines, Cluster Hardening

Preferred skills

Istio, Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger), Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Additional Policy Engines (OPA, Kyverno)

Technologies

Kubernetes, Flux, Crossplane, IronCore, Gardener, Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, AWS, Azure, GCP, OPA, Kyverno

Responsibilities

Develop reference architectures, blueprints, and best practices; Enforce architecture governance and compliance across delivery streams; Select and evaluate tools for the cloud-native ecosystem; Define and implement security architecture and hardening standards; Collaborate with Open Source Cloud Lead for consistent architecture.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic oversight