Location – Germany, UK and Netherlands (Any location)
Unit – CIS (Cloud and Infrastructure)

Job Description

The Senior Architect – Open‑Source Tools, Automation & AI is responsible for designing and governing the enterprise-wide architecture for open-source platforms, automation frameworks, MLOps/AIOps capabilities, and developer‑centric platform engineering.
This role drives the adoption of open-source software (OSS), automation‑first delivery—ensuring the enterprise builds scalable, secure, cost‑efficient, and future‑ready digital platforms.
The role partners with Engineering, Security, Data/AI, Cloud, and Operations teams to define platform roadmaps, standards, and reusable blueprints that enable consistent, automated, and AI‑enhanced infrastructure delivery.

• Extensive experience on Python
• Experience in Flask, experience in other Python framework for developing API or Python application is advantageous
• Experience ins frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch
• Extensive experience in Python ML packages
• Understanding of data structures, data modelling and data pipeline design in PySpark, Apache Airflow preferable
• Experience in vector databases like Milvus, pgvector etc.
• Deploying and using LLM
• NOSQL DB – Cassandra, MongoDB etc.
• Experience in integrating with Java based applications as well as front end application s
• Object oriented and functional programming
• Data visualization
• Cloud and K8s
• Git, CICD pipeline

Excellent communication and articulation skills
Key Responsibilities
Architecture Leadership – OSS & Automation

• Define the target state architecture for enterprise OSS tools across CI/CD, IaC, GitOps, observability, secrets management, and security automation.
• Govern the selection, lifecycle, and integration of OSS tools such as:
• GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD/Flux
• Terraform/Pulumi, Ansible
• Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS/OpenShift)
• Helm/Operators
• Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/OpenSearch
• HashiCorp Vault, Keycloak, Backstage
• Establish golden paths, reusable blueprints, and platform engineering patterns for consistent delivery.

Automation‑First & Policy‑as‑Code Frameworks

• Architect enterprise Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitOps operating models.
• Implement policy‑as‑code guardrails using OPA/Gatekeeper, Sentinel, or Conftest to enforce:
• Security baselines
• Compliance
• Tagging/metadata
• Cost controls
• Build automation pipelines for configuration drift detection, compliance scanning, environment promotion, and end‑to‑end change validation.

Observability, SRE & Reliability Architecture

• Architect enterprise observability platforms using OSS:
• Prometheus/Grafana
• OpenTelemetry (metrics, traces, logs)
• Loki/Tempo/Jaeger
• Define SLOs/SLIs/Error Budgets for platform services.
• Integrate chaos engineering, synthetic testing, and automated recovery workflows.
• Enable full-stack visibility across hybrid cloud environments.

Stakeholder Leadership

• Work with CxO stakeholders, product owners, platform teams, and security leaders to shape the OSS/automation/AI roadmap.
• Translate technical designs into executive-ready narratives and clear decision frameworks.
• Mentor engineering teams and elevate platform engineering maturity across the organization.

Required Skills & Experience
Open‑Source & Automation Technologies

• Expert-level understanding of OSS toolchains: GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, Argo/Flux, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes.
• Deep experience designing platform automation and GitOps workflows.

AI/ML & Data Platforms

• Ability to architect MLOps and AIOps pipelines using Kubeflow, MLflow, Ray, KServe, etc.
• Understanding of GPU scheduling and AI workload performance.

Security & Governance

• Strong grounding in Zero Trust, supply chain security, SBOMs, IAM, workload identity, policy‑as‑code.

Architecture Leadership

• Strong experience creating enterprise blueprints, target architecture, and roadmap documentation.
• Ability to influence at C‑suite and engineering levels.

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision leadership.
• Ability to lead architecture in complex, global environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications: CKA/CKAD/CKS, HashiCorp Terraform, major cloud architect certifications (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Experience with large‑scale hybrid cloud platform engineering.
• Exposure to regulated industries (BFSI, telco, public sector).
• 10+ years of experience

Key Deliverables

• OSS & automation Target State Architecture
• Platform engineering golden paths and developer portal models
• MLOps & AIOps reference architectures
• IaC and policy‑as‑code frameworks
• SBOM, image‑signing, and supply chain governance models
• Observability design and SRE operational standards
• Automation blueprints, pipelines, and runbooks
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