Senior DevOps Engineer – Azure & Terraform; m​/f​/d

In Germany - Berlin| Bonn | Cologne | Frankfurt/Main | Hamburg | Munich

Simon-Kucher is enabling its employees with generative AI based solutions to improve productivity. Tosupport this endeavor, a central Data & AI function is being established.

Together with our Data Analytics team Elevate and the Software Development team Engine, the demand for support of software development by IT is constantlyincreasing.

What makes us special:

• Advance your career with exciting professional opportunities in our thriving company with a startupfeel.
• Voice your unique ideas in acorporate culture defined by openness and integrity.
• Enjoy the opportunity to workfrom abroad (workation).
• Feel at home working with ourhelpful, enthusiastic colleagues who have great team spirit.
• Broaden your perspective withour extensive training curriculum and learning programs (e.g. Linked In Learning ).
• Speak your mind in our holisticfeedback and development processes (e.g. 360-degree feedback).
• Satisfy your need for adventurewith our opportunities to live and work abroad in one of our manyinternational offices
• Enjoy our benefits, such ashybrid working, daycare allowance, corporate discounts, and wellbeingsupport (e.g. Headspace).
• Unwind in our break areas whereyou can help yourself to the healthy snacks and beverages provided.
• See another side of yourcoworkers at our frequent employee events and highly anticipated World Meeting and Holiday Party.

How you will create an impact:

• Design, build, and operate Azure infrastructure using Terraform as the primary Infrastructure as Code platform.
• Own Terraform architecture across multiple production environments, including modules, state, versioning, dependencies, and environment separation.
• Define reusable IaC standards, patterns, and automation that can be adopted across engineering teams.
• Build and improve Azure Dev Ops CI/CD pipelines covering build, test, infrastructure deployment, application deployment, approvals, rollback, and release controls.
• Establish strong SDLC practices including code quality, security scanning, quality gates, and tools such as Sonar Qube.
• Design secure Azure environments using VNets, private endpoints, RBAC, Managed Identities, Key Vault, and least-privilege principles.
• Operate and improve AKS environments, including deployment, scaling, networking, observability, security, and troubleshooting.
• Lead production incident management, including investigation, prioritization, technical coordination, communication, resolution, and root-cause follow-up.
• Make and communicate architectural decisions, clearly explaining trade-offs, risks, operational impact, and maintainability.
• Take end-to-end ownership of platform initiatives while guiding engineers and communicating effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

About you:

• 5+ years of experience in Dev Ops, Cloud, or Platform Engineering with clear evidence of Senior-level ownership
  . Ability to work independently, make technical decisions, guide other engineers, and communicate clearly in English (C1+).
• Deep hands-on Terraform expertise is a core requirement
  , including personally designing, implementing, and operating production infrastructure e to have:
  Hashi Corp Terraform Associate certification or another relevant Terraform certification.
• Proven experience managing Terraform across multiple complex production environments, with strong knowledge of modules, state, lifecycle, imports, dependencies, and deployment strategies. A plus:
  Experience managing infrastructure across a large number of production environments.
  Strong hands-on Azure experience, including secure networking, identity, access management, secrets management, and production operations.
• Strong Azure Dev…