Senior Cloud Engineer Azure Platform

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.

Whether full-time or part-time, fully remote or on-site – let us know how we match up. To stay connected as a team, we only ask for three on-site days per quarter.

• You help shape and continuously develop our cloud infrastructure and platform with a strong focus on quality.
• You drive IT projects from concept and evaluation to implementation, operation, and support.
• You automate processes and infrastructure using Terraform or Ansible to ensure scalable, consistent environments.
• You implement and operate CI/CD pipelines to enable smooth and secure deployments.
• You support mission‑critical systems by being part of the 24/7 on‑call rotation and responding to alerts in a timely manner.
• You collaborate closely with architects and with your agile, international team to create guidelines, best practices, and shared engineering standards while you mentor and support your colleagues in their professional growth.

• You work confidently with Microsoft Azure in productive environments.
• You automate infrastructure with Terraform and/or Ansible following modern engineering standards, by creating CI/CD workflows using Git Hub Actions.
• You script in Python to support automation, tooling, and operational scenarios.
• You integrate IT security and regulatory requirements (including KRITIS) into concepts and daily operations.
• You think holistically, applying a platform‑engineering mindset to improve architectures, processes, and overall service quality.
• You speak English fluently;
  German is a plus.

You want to mix it up? Work remotely and meet your colleagues in office. We supply you with the equipment you need.

Lease a bike of your choice as a company bike and receive an allowance to your public transport ticket, which is valid all over Germany.

Stay in shape with our company’s own sports offers and use the possibilities of the urban sports club membership at a reduced price.

We encourage our employees to invest four working days per year in training and cover the costs. In addition, we offer in-house English and German courses, as well as individual coachings.

Flexible working hours are normal for us. With our flextime working model, you can save up additional holidays and use them flexibly. This leaves enough time for hobbies and family.

We offer 28 days of paid holidays, plus Christmas Eve and New Year s Eve in addition. As a Cologne-based company, the infamous "Rosenmontag" is a day off too. We also give you a special day off on your birthday so you can celebrate yourself.

Join us at the next summer party, winter party and the hackathon!

Our premises are located on a site that used to be a lamp factory in the lively Cologne Ehrenfeld.

We communicate on the same level and embrace open mindedness.

We care about You. Thats why we offer extra support with our employee assistance program. We offer external support for challenges in your private and your professional life.

Organic fruit and vegetables, "kölscher" coffee and collective cooking sessions are part of Next.

"A challenging and highly rewarding role - working in the energy sector, you’ll tackle complex problems, grow technically, and develop on a personal level every day."

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. If this job description suits you, please send us a detailed application via the button below.

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