Senior DevOps Engineer - Azre & Terraform (m/f/d)

In Germany - Berlin| Bonn | Cologne | Frankfrt/Main | Hambrg | Mnich

Simon-Kcher is enabling itsemployees with generative AI based soltions to improve prodctivity. Tospport this endeavor, a central Data & AI fnction is being established.Together with or Data Analytics team Elevate and the Software Development teamEngine, the demand for spport of software development by IT is constantlyincreasing.

What makes s special:

Advance yor career with exciting professional opportnities in or thriving company with a startp feel.

Voice yor niqe ideas in a corporate cltre defined by openness and integrity.

Enjoy the opportnity to work from abroad (workation).

Feel at home working with or helpfl, enthsiastic colleages who have great team spirit.

Broaden yor perspective with or extensive training crriclm and learning programs (e.g. LinkedIn Learning).

Speak yor mind in or holistic feedback and development processes (e.g. 36-degree feedback).

Satisfy yor need for adventre with or opportnities to live and work abroad in one of or many international offices

Enjoy or benefits, sch as hybrid working, daycare allowance, corporate disconts, and wellbeing spport (e.g. Headspace).

nwind in or break areas where yo can help yorself to the healthy snacks and beverages provided.

See another side of yor coworkers at or freqent employee events and highly anticipated World Meeting and Holiday Party.

How yo will create an impact:

Design, bild, and operate Azre infrastrctre sing Terraform as the primary Infrastrctre as Code platform.

Own Terraform architectre across mltiple prodction environments, inclding modles, state, versioning, dependencies, and environment separation.

Define resable IaC standards, patterns, and atomation that can be adopted across engineering teams.

Bild and improve Azre DevOps CI/CD pipelines covering bild, test, infrastrctre deployment, application deployment, approvals, rollback, and release controls.

Establish strong SDLC practices inclding code qality, secrity scanning, qality gates, and tools sch as SonarQbe.

Design secre Azre environments sing VNets, private endpoints, RBAC, Managed Identities, Key Valt, and least-privilege principles.

Operate and improve AKS environments, inclding deployment, scaling, networking, observability, secrity, and trobleshooting.

Lead prodction incident management, inclding investigation, prioritization, technical coordination, commnication, resoltion, and root-case follow-p.

Make and commnicate architectral decisions, clearly explaining trade-offs, risks, operational impact, and maintainability.

Take end-to-end ownership of platform initiatives while giding engineers and commnicating effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Abot yo:

5+ years of experience in DevOps, Clod, or Platform Engineering with clear evidence of Senior-level ownership. Ability to work independently, make technical decisions, gide other engineers, and commnicate clearly in English (C1+).

Deep hands-on Terraform expertise is a core reqirement, inclding personally designing, implementing, and operating prodction infrastrctre at scale. Nice to have: HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification or another relevant Terraform certification.

Proven experience managing Terraform across mltiple complex prodction environments, with strong knowledge of modles, state, lifecycle, imports, dependencies, and deployment strategies. A pls: Experience managing infrastrctre across a large nmber of prodction environments.
Strong hands-on Azre experience, inclding secre networking, identity, access management, secrets management, and prodction operations.

Strong Azre DevOps experience, particlarly designing and maintaining enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines. Nice to have: Experience with GitHb Actions.

Good nderstanding of the complete SDLC, inclding atomated testing, code qality, secrity scanning, artifact management, approvals, and release governance. Additional advantage: Experience with Azre Policy, Defender for Clod, or container/image secrity tooling.

Solid Kbernetes experience, preferably with AKS, pls strong Docker and containerization knowledge.

Proven experience leading complex prodction incidents and driving root-case analysis and follow-p improvements.

Strong stakeholder-management skills, inclding the ability to explain technical risks, trade-offs, incidents, and delivery challenges clearly.

Nice to have: Experience with Azre AI / Fondry, ML platforms, or data-heavy workloads. Additional asset: Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, or similar AI orchestration, evalation, and observability platforms.

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Abot Simon-Kcher
Simon-Kcheris a global consltancy with more than , employees in 3+ contries. As atrsted commercial advisor focsed on nlocking better growth, we combine deepconslting expertise, growth specialization, and technology to scale lastingimpact. We optimize every lever of commercial strategy - prodct, pricing,innovation, marketing, and sales - based on what cstomers want and vale. Withover 4 years of monetization experience, we are recognized as the world'sleading commercial growth and pricing specialist. simon-kcher.com

Webelieve in bilding a cltre that embraces diversity, eqity, and inclsion,creating an environment in which or people feel valed, are able to bethemselves and feel their contribtion matters. If we get that right,remarkable things will happen; people will grow faster, innovate, feel valed,and create better otcomes for everyone - or people, or clients and, ofcorse, or bsiness.

Yor personal contact:
ChristinaJap-Schwilk
recritment.germany(at)simon-kcher.com

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