Infrastructure Architect (f/m/d)
GMX, WEB.DE & mail.com | IT System Administration / Network Administration / Project Management / Process Management | Karlsruhe / Munich | Permanent | Full-time | Experienced professionals | Reference ID: 311
- Your tasks
Are you ready to shape the architectural foundation of enterprise infrastructure? As an Infrastructure Architect, you’ll lead the design of resilient, scalable, and secure platform landscapes across hybrid cloud and data center environments. You’ll combine deep technical expertise with strategic foresight to define future-ready infrastructure architectures and help build one of the best scaling HCI platforms. Join a team that’s building a European alternative to email and cloud services, committed to privacy, digital sovereignty, and operating under European law.
Do you enjoy translating complex requirements into robust infrastructure designs? Are you passionate about building scalable platforms that support long-term business strategy? Do you want to lead architecture initiatives that drive innovation and resilience? Here are some core responsibilities of this role:
- You will design and evolve infrastructure architectures for hybrid cloud and data center environments.
- You will develop capacity and performance models across compute, storage, and networking.
- You will plan and evaluate high-availability and disaster recovery concepts.
- You will moderate architecture reviews and produce technical decision documents.
- You will define technical standards and guardrails in collaboration with engineering and business teams.
Our benefits
Lived corporate culture
Transparency, open communication and short decision-making processes
Wide range of further training
E-learning, seminars, conferences and mentoring
Renowned TEC-Campus
Conferences, lecture series, courses, open source projects, community meetings, user groups
Active health care
Sports and fitness classes, lectures, discounts at fitness and health centers, fresh fruit and drinks for free
Mobility
Generous subsidy for job bike leasing and the job ticket
Flexible working models
Home office, mobile office, flexible working hours, trust-based working time arrangements
Financial benefits
Company pension scheme, discounts on our products and various leisure activities
Legendary events
Summer and winter parties, additional workshops and team events
- Your profile
Do you combine strategic thinking with hands-on infrastructure expertise? Have you led architecture projects across virtualization, networking, and storage domains? Are you confident in communicating complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders? We believe the following skills and experiences will help you to be successful in this role:
- Extensive experience in infrastructure and platform architecture (e.g., virtualization (Harvester), data center, network).
- Deep knowledge of HA/DR, storage systems, and load balancers.
- Proven track record in leading technical architecture projects and cross-functional teams.
- Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or ArchiMate (certification is a plus).
- Excellent communication skills with fluency in English and ideally German.
- Our benefits in detail
- Our corporate culture: No dress code, flat hierarchies, open and transparent communication.
- Individual development opportunities: diverse training courses, e-learning and internal communities, language courses, mentoring.
- Events: Slack Days, open source projects, meet-ups.
- Relocation service: support with the relocation to Germany.
- Benefits and additional services: company pension scheme, capital-forming benefits, discounts on own products, job ticket, bike leasing, corporate benefits portal.
- Attractive working conditions: 30 days holiday, hybrid working, full-time and part-time arrangements, free choice between Linux, Mac, or Windows.
- Social: team events, summer and winter parties, family and care service, sports and fitness programs, subsidized canteen, free fruit and drinks, health courses.
- Topics that are also important to us: Sustainability, diversity, and our values and leadership principles - find out more on our website mail-and-media.com.
We are brand. With GMX, WEB.DE and mail.com and over 42 million active users, we are the leading email and communication platform in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
We are future. Our services and apps simplify digital life from cloud storage to news and ID management.
You are at home. Your digital passion finds a professional home with us. Your strength makes us stronger, your expertise complements our ideas, your success becomes visible. Together we shape the digital future.
Diversity enriches. Different cultures, nationalities, genders, age groups, sexual orientations and religions as well as people with disabilities - we desire diversity and encourage it. Because only teams that reflect all facets of society offer the best framework conditions for creativity and make a company productive and distinctive. We value diversity and welcome all applications.
Apply now
We look forward to receiving your application, including your salary expectations and the reference number given above. Please use our online application form. If you have any questions about the position or the application process, please send us an email.
1&1 Mail & Media Applications SE
Recruiting & Candidate Management
Brauerstraße 48
D-76135 Karlsruhe
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