We are seeking an experienced Cloud & Security Architect to join our team and lead the architecture, resilience, and security posture of our enterprise application platform. In this role, you will bridge the gap between Azure Cloud Architecture, Security Engineering, and Modern Application Development.Our application suite is built with C# and .NET and is deployed across a hybrid environment spanning Microsoft Azure, On-Premises infrastructure, and Docker / Kubernetes (K8s). Because our application is exposed directly to the public internet, ensuring robust security - ranging from edge defense and zero-trust networking to secure coding practices and container hardening - is at the core of this role.
Work Experience: 7+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture, Cybersecurity, and/or DevSecOps roles
Execution & Drive: Self-motivated, hands-on practitioner with a "doer" mentality, taking strong personal ownership and pride in the quality, security, and elegance of technical deliverables
Technical Leadership: Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire engineering teams to continuously raise the bar and strive for excellence
Public Internet Exposure: Hands-on experience defending public-facing, internet-exposed applications against threats (e.g., volumetric DDoS, credential stuffing, API abuse, SQLi)
Azure Technical Stack: Strong practical knowledge of Microsoft Azure services and security tools (Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Key Vault, Azure Policy, Network Security Groups, Private Endpoints)
DevOps Architecture & Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience in driving automated infrastructure provisioning, continuous deployment, and telemetry across hybrid Azure, on-premises, and Kubernetes environments, ensuring zero-downtime deployments, high availability, and operational resilience
Software & Distributed Architecture Expertise: Strong background in software architecture with proven experience designing and securing microservices architectures. Solid understanding of distributed systems, event-driven messaging systems (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka, Azure Service Bus), data persistence patterns, and API gateway integrations
Name: Sophie Krug
E-Mail: recruiting@jenoptik.com
Jenoptik – MORE LIGHT. We are a company where bright ideas are born. Changing the world with light demands for an exploring spirit. Discover challenges the world is facing, at Jenoptik you change the world.
💡PHOTONICS: Optical technologies are at the heart of our business. Explore the variety of our photonics-based products and services: We’re on Mars with NASA. We’re behind the quality of your smartphone camera lenses. We enable smart manufacturing with laser & metrology solutions customized to your manufacturing environment. We make roads and communities safer.
🚀MARKETS: Our key target markets primarily include the semiconductor equipment industry, electronics, life science and medical technology, metrology as well as smart mobility incl. road traffic safety and civil security.
🌎LOCATIONS: The Jenoptik Group headquarters are in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. Next to our major sites in Germany, we maintain production and assembly sites in the USA, France, the United Kingdom and Asia-Pacific.
🌳SUSTAINABILITY: Together with our customers, we create forward-looking trends in the fields of energy efficiency, healthcare, the environment, mobility, and safety. With our products we can make significant contributions to meeting the societal challenges we face as well as to the conservation and efficient use of resources.
🌈INCLUSION: As an international company with about 4,600 employees, we are aware of our responsibility to create an appreciative and unprejudiced working environment and support diversity, equity and inclusion in our teams. We are committed to increasing the number of international und female managers in our company and signed the “Charta der Vielfalt”, an employer initiative for diversity, in 2020.
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