Cloud Engineer (f/m/d)

As a Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for the development and maintenance of our Azure infrastructure, ensuring it remains robust and scalable to meet the demands of our growing operations. In this role, you will provide essential support to internal teams, assisting them in the deployment and operation of various applications, ensuring seamless integration and functionality. Your expertise in Cloud Engineering, coupled with your proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD, will be critical in driving our modernisation initiative forward. By leveraging your skills and experience, you will play a pivotal role in transforming one of Europe's leading virtual power plants, contributing significantly to our mission of innovation and efficiency in the energy sector.

Job description

As a Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for the development and maintenance of our Azure infrastructure, ensuring it remains robust and scalable to meet the demands of our growing operations. In this role, you will provide essential support to internal teams, assisting them in the deployment and operation of various applications, ensuring seamless integration and functionality. Your expertise in Cloud Engineering, coupled with your proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD, will be critical in driving our modernisation initiative forward. By leveraging your skills and experience, you will play a pivotal role in transforming one of Europe's leading virtual power plants, contributing significantly to our mission of innovation and efficiency in the energy sector.

What you can expect from us

We offer you a friendly team in which you have much room to contribute your ideas, as well as a challenging and varied job with a high level of personal responsibility. Join us in shaping the energy transition in Europe.

Your tasks include

  • You love development of new concepts and solutions for complex problems.
  • You care for a holistic approach towards product development, taking it from conception and evaluation to Proof-of-Concept, implementation, and all the way to operation and support.
  • You enjoy end-to-end responsibilities for your products: you build it, you run it.
  • You focus on high quality rather than quick solutions.
  • You have a platform-engineering mindset and enjoy making services and tools available to other engineers.
  • You enjoy working in an agile, multi-national team.

What you bring with you

  • You have profound experience in productive infrastructure work using one of the major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP).
  • You have a deep understanding of building and operating cloud platforms and are familiar with Docker and containerisation of applications.
  • You are proficient in writing Terraform and CI/CD pipelines and experienced with Git.
  • You possess strong coding skills in languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, and Golang.
  • You are a team player: code reviews, pair programming and sparring sessions are daily business for you.
  • You are proficient in both spoken and written English and German.

About the company

Next Kraftwerke operates one of the largest virtual power plants in Europe. In the Next Pool, more than 15,000 decentralised electricity producers and consumers are networked via a platform and can therefore be controlled via the specially developed control system. With a networked generation capacity of over 12,000 megawatts, Next Kraftwerke helps to balance frequency fluctuations in the grid. In addition, the Cologne-based company, which has been part of the Shell Group since 2021, optimises the electricity production and consumption of networked customers based on price signals and trades their electricity on various European exchanges (e.g. EPEX and EEX) via its own 24/7 electricity trading system.

Our benefits

  • Company bike
  • Fitness programme
  • Flexible working hours
  • Home office
  • Further training