Azure DevOps Engineer

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission. 

Business Area (BA) Markets’ role in Vattenfall is to maximize the value of the overall portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging and sourcing for Vattenfall's sales and generation volumes. We serve as Vattenfall’s single access to energy commodity markets and trade electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates. We employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

In BA Markets the mission of the Unit OU Operations is to drive the digital transformation. OU Operations consists of diverse and highly skilled employees from more than 20 countries. We work internationally from our locations in Stockholm, Hamburg and Amsterdam.

We have a culture of care and growth. You will collaborate with inspiring people around you, on complex and interesting topics. Together, we drive the energy transition and contribute to a journey towards becoming fossil-free.

Are you a self-starter with dedication for IT infrastructure and top notch technology? Do you like to work in a dynamic trading environment closely together with stakeholders? Do you want to contribute to bring our IT infrastructure to a top level in the cloud? In that case this job could be the right one for you.

At Vattenfall, we don’t just “do energy”, we exist to help our customers power their lives in ever climate smarter ways and free from fossil fuel within one generation.

We are one of Europe’s leading energy companies with trading activities in the global energy markets. Our IT landscape is expanding and our IT solutions have a growing need for the fittest IT infrastructure.

For our office in Hamburg we are looking for an experienced  Azure DevOps Engineer in our Infrastructure Team with solid experience in deploying, designing and maintaining the cloud infrastructures

The team works closely with IT development teams and takes the leading role in providing infrastructure solutions.

Your key responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and extend Azure cloud infrastructure, including Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) and Cassandra landscapes.
• Create, maintain, and optimize automated build and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate with technical leads, domain experts, and stakeholders to gather functional and non-functional requirements.
• Continuously improve infrastructure components through refactoring, optimization, architectural enhancements, and process automation.
• Provide technical advice and represent the team's perspective in decision-making processes.
• Support and troubleshoot scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup, and restores of cloud environments.
• Contribute to cloud migration efforts within the infrastructure team.

Your profile:

• Graduate degree such as Bachelor in IT/Management, Engineering, Business Administration or related field; or equivalent professional experience.
• Key knowledge requirements: 
  • Knowledge of automation and CI/CD technologies (e.g. Azure DevOps, GitHub/Lab)
  • Experience working with IaC/infrastructure automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, Docker etc.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana, Prometheus
  • Ideally familiar in working with Linux operating system
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent language skills in English
• Experience in agile software development methodology (Scrum) and ITIL processes
• Basic knowledge in Energy Trading is a plus

Benefits

Your development is a priority at Vattenfall BA Markets. Your professional journey will benefit from working in the exciting industry of energy trading, and in interdisciplinary teams. To support your career, we offer opportunities to grow through training, job rotations, talent programs and a working environment that stimulates learning.

Our work culture at Vattenfall is excellent. We have an open corporate culture with flat hierarchies. Modern and flexible working conditions, including mobile work, promote wellbeing. In Germany, our work week consists of 37.5 hours with, in many cases, the possibility to work part-time. Up to 49% of your working time can be mobile work, and you are entitled to 30 days of vacation per year.

Your health is important to us. We provide several health programs and support throughout potentially challenging life situations.

Your colleagues will be another highlight. We employ inspiring people with diverse backgrounds. Together with our culture and your tasks, they form an interesting and fun place to work.

You can find our new state of the art office next to Elbbrücken.

More information 
We welcome your application in English, no later than 22nd of November 2024. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website. 

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our Recruiter Jil Ungethüm via phone at +49 40 79022 1378.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, called Validata. In addition, a certificate of good conduct (i.e. criminal record certificate) is required for certain positions.
 

We look forward to receiving your application!