Responsibilities:
- Design and implementation of scalable, secure cloud solutions in close collaboration with engineering and architecture teams
- Conducting cloud engineering tasks within agile sprints using established best practices and templates
- Build new cloud environments for customers using native Azure services
- Use of architectural concepts and reusable components for setting up automated infrastructure, CI/CD processes and supporting tools
- Presentation of technical solutions to different target groups, from developers to analysts to executives
- Consulting customer teams and decision makers on technology options, best practices and added value of cloud-native approaches
- Appearance as a voice of Rackspace in the customer project, with responsibility for quality, technical transparency and implementation success
Requirements:
- Proven experience in performing complex cloud projects, from conception to productive deployment
- Sound expertise in design, deployment and operation of automated, secure and stable cloud infrastructures (AWS or Azure)
- Strong customer orientation and willingness to take on tasks such as provisioning, maintenance and further development of cloud-based systems
- Ability to participate in technical discussions at different levels, from architectural decisions to concrete implementation
- Application of automation-oriented principles in the context of agile project methods
- Strong communication and team skills as well as safe action in German-speaking customer environments
Experience:
- Sound experience with cloud-native architectures on AWS and/or Azure, both in the IaaS and PaaS area
- Practice in the development of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code approaches, ideally with: Terraform, Ansible, Python, YAML, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes
- Knowledge in programming and scripting (e.g. B. Python, Go, JavaScript) and experience in development or DevOps teams
- Familiarity with common security concepts in the cloud (IAM, KMS, key vaults, role-based access control, etc.)
- Ideally experience in enterprise-scale environments with direct customer contact
- Ability to convey complex technical concepts in a comprehensible way and to act as a trustworthy advisor.