Cloud Engineer (AWS or Azure)/Technical Lead

Cloud Engineer (AWS or Azure)/Technical Lead

Remote from anywhere in EU

Location: European Union (Remote)

Salary: Competitive

Permanent

Cloud Engineer (AWS or Azure)/Technical Lead – Remote from anywhere in EU – Chance to Work for a Well-Known German Brand Name Organisation + Competitive Benefits Package *Fluency in German is Required*

One of the leading maritime companies in Germany are currently seeking an AWS (with Azure) Cloud Engineer/Technical Lead to join their team for an interesting piece of work on their internal Cloud platforms.

This is an excellent opportunity for an AWS Engineer/Technical Architect to gain valuable experience and take a huge step forward in their career.

This company is an ambitious young company with operations all over Europe. Their efficient work has made them one of the most well-respected maritime companies in Europe.

About the Company:

Founded over 30 years ago, and with a rich history stretching back to more than 150 years ago; this company have become one of the leading shipping companies in Europe with operations and routes over several different seas.

They have 2000 employees worldwide and have a particularly strong presence in Germany and Denmark and the Baltic regions.

They have operations in nearly 15 countries, they operate more than 70 vessels, and their subsidiaries have also seen success in recent years.

With a multicultural feel to the business, the company are diverse and inclusive with their teams made up of professionals from all around the world.

About the AWS (and Azure) Cloud Engineer/Technical Lead Position:

The successful candidate will join the global Cloud team to design, build and support services and solutions to meet a wide variety of business requirements.

Cloud computing infrastructure is at the heart of their IT platform, and spans across many business area, so deep knowledge and understanding of both AWS and Azure will be required.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS (and Azure)
• Develop automation scripts to manage and maintain cloud infrastructure using tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Monitor and optimize the performance and cost-effectiveness of cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate with development teams to support the deployment and operation of applications on AWS
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies to improve the reliability, scalability, and security of the company’s cloud infrastructure
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to AWS infrastructure

About Your Daily Tasks:

• You administrate and further expand our cloud infrastructures
• You are working and collaborating closely with the development teams
• You ensure the required uptime, reliability, and security of our critical systems
• You like to be proactively up to date with new technologies and to participate in the architectural roadmap
• Participation in the internal IT on-call

Ideal Requirements for the AWS (and Azure) Cloud Engineer/Technical Lead Role:

· Professional experience as an AWS Cloud Engineer – Azure cloud would be a plus

· You think solution- and customer-oriented and are open to new technologies

· You bring along a training as IT specialist and several years of experience in this area or a technical degree

· First-hand practical experience with container management and orchestration of a microservice architecture

· Broad IT cloud knowledge, preferably in at least some of the following areas: EC2, Aurora RDS, VPC, IAM, Cloudflare, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaegger, ELK, Python

· Excellent written and spoken English communication skills

· Valid EU work permit