Sr. Tech Architect - OpenSource Tools,… at Infosys · Frankfurt

**Role - Senior Technology Architect -**Open‑Source Tools, Automation & AI Location – Germany, UK and Netherlands (Any location)Unit – CIS (Cloud and Infrastructure)

Job Description Role Overview 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, GitOps/IaC, AI/ML operational platforms, and Zero Trust security models—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
• About Infosys Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in 50+ countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over three decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through the many next of their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem. Visit https://www.infosys.com to see how Infosys can help your enterprise navigate your next.

All aspects of employment at Infosys are based on merit, competence, and performance. We are committed to embracing diversity and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Infosys is proud to be an equal opportunity employer

External Job Title

Sr. Technology Architect - OpenSource Tools, Automation & AI - UK, Germany, Netherlands