StepStone

Next Kraftwerke GmbH

  • Köln
  • Post Date: 16. Juli 2024
Jobbeschreibung

Would you like to join us in shaping the transformation of our energy system? Then you've come to the right place! We operate one of the largest Virtual Power Plants in Europe with thousands of networked power generators, consumers and storage facilities. With our team, we are working on the realisation of a sustainable power market – at our headquarter in the heart of Cologne-Ehrenfeld, in our European branches and, of course, also while working from home.

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 modernization 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.

This is what we work with:

  • Infrastructure-as-code, Kanban, Kubernetes, Prometheus/Opensearch, Ansible/Terraform
  • Python, Bash
  • Azure, AWS
  • Jira, Confluence

  • 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.

  • 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 containerization 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.

  • Hybrid and flexible working including home office equipment
  • The opportunity to save up additional vacation days and use them flexibly with our Flextime working model
  • Comprehensive further development opportunities such as language courses, coaching and training
  • Free delivery of green electricity (electricity deputation)
  • Job bike and Germany ticket
  • Sports offers e.g (Urban Sports Club, Yoga courses)
  • Regular events: summer party, Christmas party, LAN party, after-work pizza & drinks
  • External support in finding daycare places as well as other private and professional challenges

This is what your colleagues say

„Collaborating across units and companies to build our future infrastructure is challenging yet rewarding. Join us on our challenging yet fun way to the cloud”

Fide, Software Developer at Next Kraftwerke

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