Cloud & DevSecOps Architect (gn)

📋 Job Overview

As Cloud & DevSecOps Architect (gn) in the Security team, you define how we build and deliver securely in the cloud at The Quality Group. You define binding security requirements and reference architectures for AWS and Azure, for pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and deployments.

🏢 About The Quality Group

The Quality Group (TQG) is an innovative provider of sports nutrition products, bringing together the successful brands ESN and More Nutrition since 2021. ESN has been the German market leader in sports nutrition since 2004, offering products like protein powders, bars, and supplements designed for ambitious fitness goals. Founded in 2017, More Nutrition focuses on healthy, reduced-sugar foods, providing solutions for conscious nutrition and weight management without compromise. TQG’s vision is to help people become the best version of themselves. With passion and innovation, the company develops high-quality products that promote health, performance, and joy in life. Its agile company culture and exciting career opportunities make TQG a strong partner not only for customers but also for employees.

🎯 The Role

Implementation lies with Cloud & AI Platforms, Engineering, and Infrastructure. You support them in an advisory role, review architectures, and make sure the requirements work in day-to-day practice and are adhered to. You see yourself as an enabler: teams should be able to build securely without having to wait for Security. In DevSecOps, you go one step further: you help build security gates, pipeline templates, and Policy as Code yourself, so that security is enforced automatically and not just documented.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• You define binding security requirements and baselines for AWS and Azure: landing zones, identity and access, network segmentation, encryption, logging
• You develop reference architectures for secure workloads: business applications, developer platform, AI workloads
• You set standards for secure interfaces, for example authentication, authorization, and securing APIs
• You define security requirements for hybrid transitions between on-prem and cloud, aligned with the Infrastructure Architect
• You conduct security and architecture reviews for new cloud initiatives and Infrastructure-as-Code changes
• You are the dedicated point of contact for Cloud & AI Platforms and Engineering in the matrix model, involved from project start
• You assess deviations and exceptions and escalate to the Head of Cyber Security when requirements are not met
• You advise on architecture decisions, for example on the consolidation of cloud platforms
• You support security incidents within your area of responsibility, for example in cloud environments, pipelines, platforms, or web shop frontends: technical analysis, containment, and lessons learned together with the Security Analysts
• You design security gates in CI/CD pipelines and help build them: SAST, dependency and container scanning, secrets management
• You introduce and operate Policy as Code and Cloud Security Posture Management
• You develop secure pipeline templates and Terraform modules that teams can use via self-service
• You help shape the Secure Engineering Way of Working for repositories, pipelines, and deployments on GitHub
• You build and lead a Security Champion program: one point of contact per Engineering, Platform, and Infrastructure team who carries security into day-to-day work
• You empower the champions through training, regular exchange sessions, and practical guides
• You ensure knowledge transfer through reviews, pair programming, and workshops
• You maintain the security architecture documentation as a basis for audits and decisions
• You make impact measurable, for example through the share of pipelines with active security gates and active champions per team

📌 Required Qualifications

• You bring several years of experience as a Cloud Architect, Platform Engineer, or DevSecOps Engineer in production environments
• You have solid knowledge of AWS and good knowledge of Azure, including networking, IAM, and landing zone concepts
• You have hands-on production experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
• You bring experience with CI/CD, ideally GitHub Actions, as well as with security tooling in pipelines
• You understand Policy as Code, container security, and secrets management
• You are familiar with identity and access concepts, for example Microsoft Entra ID, OAuth2, and OIDC
• You convince through arguments and good solutions, not through hierarchy
• You think pragmatically: security that slows teams down in their daily work gets bypassed
• You document in a way that allows others to understand and implement your architecture decisions
• You enjoy working across teams with Engineering, Platform, Infrastructure, and Security
• You speak very good German and English

🎁 Benefits

• Room to shape things at a time when we are consolidating cloud platforms and building new security standards
• Real impact: your architecture and your guardrails become the standard for Engineering, Platform, and Infrastructure
• Modern stack with AWS, Azure, Terraform, GitHub, and a growing AI platform
• Budget for further training and certifications
• Location: Hamburg with a remote share
• Flexible working hours and remote work options
• Attractive employee discounts
• Subsidy for the E-gym Wellpass
• Workation
• Corporate benefits
• 28 days vacation/year