Platform Architect

With a global team of 5600+ IT professionals, DHL IT Services connects people and keeps the global economy running by continuously innovating and creating sustainable digital solutions. We work beyond global borders and push boundaries across all dimensions of logistics. You can leave your mark shaping the technology backbone of the biggest logistics company of the world. All our locations have earned the #GreatPlaceToWork certification, reflecting our commitment to exceptional employee experiences.

Digitalization. Simply delivered.

At IT Services, we are passionate about platform engineering, Kubernetes, GitOps and infrastructure-as-code. Our Infrastructure Platform Services (IPS) team is continuously expanding. No matter your level of Platform Architect proficiency, you can always grow within our diverse environment. This is an internal opportunity, open to current DHL IT Services employees.

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Grow together

Timely delivery of DHL packages around the globe depends on an infrastructure platform that is consistent, secure and future-proof — and that platform needs an owner. As our Platform Architect and Platform Owner, you will define the target architecture for Infrastructure Platform Services (IPS), design the Crossplane-based control plane, and act as design authority for the platform — authoring Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), running architecture gate reviews, and keeping our architecture IP firmly in-house with no vendor dependency.

You will own the platform end to end across Build and Run: shaping the run operating model, aligning the technology roadmap across the Compute & Storage, Data & Observability, Secure Connectivity and Infrastructure Security domains, and making sure every design decision supports our Private Cloud 2.0 ambition.

For any question on target architecture, control-plane design or platform standards within the DHL Group environment, you are our go-to architect. The same applies when it comes to proposing, designing and governing changes to the platform — reference architectures, golden paths and policy guardrails (OPA, Kyverno) included.

Last but not least, you will work hand in hand with the Crossplane CoC, DevOps & SRE and Automation teams so that new capabilities are onboarded into the platform as self-service — with no handover cliff and no lock-in.

Ready to embark on the journey Here's what we are looking for:

As a Platform Architect, having hands-on experience designing enterprise-scale infrastructure platforms or internal developer platforms is a huge plus. Very good knowledge of platform-as-a-product operating models, control-plane design (Crossplane) and architecture governance (ADRs, gate reviews, design authority) will also be an integral part of this role.

You are a technology aficionado, therefore you have a good understanding of cloud-native architectures and infrastructure-as-code (Kubernetes, Crossplane, Git, Argo CD), policy-as-code (OPA, Kyverno) and modern observability standards such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana and Prometheus. You are able to work independently, prioritize and organize your tasks under time and workload pressure. Working in a multinational environment, you can expect cross-region collaboration with teams around the globe, thus being advanced in spoken and written English will be certainly useful.

An array of benefits for you:

• Hybrid work arrangements to balance in-office collaboration and home flexibility.
• Outpatient (unlimited) and inpatient medical coverage for employees.
• Personalized flexi benefit plan for you and your family.
• Choose any day off from earned public holidays, including Saturdays and ad-hoc holidays to spend with your loved ones.
• Modern offices with free parking space.

DHL is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected characteristic.