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Cloud Operator

Job

  • Level
    Experienced
  • Job Field
    IT, DevOps
  • Employment Type
    Full Time
  • Contract Type
    Temporary employment
  • Location
    Leipzig
  • Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Job Summary

    In this role, you will build modular Terraform stacks for Azure and AWS, maintain CI/CD pipelines, implement security standards, and manage cloud service optimizations and governance structures.

    Job Technologies

    Your role in the team

    • Development and maintenance of modular Terraform stacks (Modules/Providers) for Azure/AWS Landing Zones, networking, security, Kubernetes, and platform services.
    • CI/CD pipelines for validation (linting, policy checks), drift detection, and automated rollouts (plan/apply where appropriate).
    • Quality standards (version/state management, "immutable" patterns, testability, docs-as-code).
    • Provision of self-service catalogs (Terraform + GitLab CI), including clear guardrails and tiered approval processes.
    • Enablement for "You build it, you run it!", including templates, best practices, and onboarding materials.
    • Multi-Account/Subscription Governance Structuring of Azure Subscriptions including SCPs, policies, cost/responsibility allocation.
    • Create a landing zone concept with separation of Dev/Stage/Prod, Least Privilege & Segregation of Duties.
    • Continuous logs/traces/metrics (e.g., OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana).
    • Alerting (Alertmanager/Opsgenie) with meaningful thresholds, runbooks, and SLO/SLA definitions (e.g., Pyrra).
    • Transparency about costs & cost drivers (e.g., OpenCost for Kubernetes), tagging/allocation. Forecasting, budgets & optimization (rightsizing, RI/Savings Plans, scaling policies).
    • Reporting & Recommendations for Teams ("Showback/Chargeback" where appropriate).
    • Policy-as-Code (e.g., Kyverno for K8s), hardening and encryption (KMS).
    • Logging/Revision (CloudTrail), auditability along defined controls (e.g., ISO 27001-like baselines). Secrets management, vulnerability management, change controls, and emergency processes.
    • Backups for S3 and relevant cloud services, cross-region strategies.
    • Documented RTO/RPO, regular restore tests (e.g., Velero for K8s).
    • BCDR runbooks & exercises with teams.
    • Technical documentation: runbooks, playbooks, ADRs, diagrams, and operational processes.
    • Training/Enablement for teams, clear handover points (Definition of Ready/Done), process discipline.

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    Our expectations of you

    Qualifications

    • Solid knowledge of Kubernetes (AKS/EKS) including networking/Ingress, Helm/Deployments.
    • Practical experience in Observability (Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Alerting) and runbook-driven operations.
    • Proficient in Identity & Access Management (IAM/RBAC), Tagging/Guardrails, and Landing Zone Patterns.
    • FinOps fundamentals (cost analysis, forecasting, rightsizing).
    • Scripting (e.g., Bash/Python), Git-based workflow, Infrastructure- & Docs-as-Code.
    • Very good knowledge of German.
    • Willingness to be on-call within a structured framework.
    • Ideally certifications (Terraform, AWS/Azure, CKA/CKAD, FinOps).

    Experience

    • At least 3 years of experience in Cloud Operations (AWS/Azure) with Terraform & CI/CD (e.g., GitLab CI).
    • Experience with Security & Compliance in regulated environments (e.g., NIS2/KRITIS, ISO 27001-related controls).
    • Ideally, experience with Argo CD/Flux, HashiCorp stack (Vault, Packer).
    • Ideally, KRITIS experience in the energy sector and audit preparation.

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    Job Locations

    • Location Leipzig

      Sachsen

      Germany

    This is your employer

    Senec Gmbh

    Senec Gmbh

    Since 2009, SENEC GmbH has been developing and producing intelligent energy storage systems and storage-based energy solutions in Leipzig. With its license to directly market electricity, the company offers its customers maximum independence from external power suppliers.

    Description

  • Company Type
    Established Company
  • Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Industry
    Power Sector, Economy
  • Logo Senec Gmbh

    Cloud Operator

    Location
    Leipzig
    Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
    Diversity
    Open for all genders

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