Site Reliability Engineer - Algo Infrastructure

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people's homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, so have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission. Business Area (BA) Markets' role in Vattenfall is to maximize the value of the overall portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging, and sourcing for Vattenfall's sales and generation volumes. We serve as Vattenfall's single access to energy commodity markets and electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates. We employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. In BA Markets the mission of the Unit OU Operations is to drive the digital transformation. OU Operations consists of diverse and highly skilled employees from more than 20 countries. We work internationally from our locations in Stockholm, Hamburg and Amsterdam. We have a culture of care and growth. You will collaborate with inspiring people around you, on complex and interesting topics. Together, we drive the energy transition and contribute to a journey towards becoming fossil-free.

Are you a self-starter with a dedication to create a robust and reliable foundation for our algorithmic trading and coding? Do you want to make a difference in a digital and agile environment? Do you like to work in a dynamic trading environment close together with traders and quants – a tight community, focusing on deep tech and high impact? Do you want to contribute to successful algorithmic trading with your infrastructure and software solutions? In that case this job could be the right one for you. Vattenfall is one of Europe's leading energy companies with trading activities in the global energy markets. We are strongly expanding into algorithmic trading and automated trade execution. We're looking for the right person to fill the position as Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Algo Infrastructure for our office in Hamburg. Your key responsibilities as Site Reliability Engineer Build and manage algo infrastructure: Develop software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications Optimize performance: Measure and optimize system performance, ensuring high availability and reliability Monitor and maintain system reliability: Detect issues, handle failures automatically, and prepare disaster recovery plans Automate processes: Create sustainable systems and services through automation Collaborate with development teams: Work with developers to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures Collaborate with business users: Monitor the input channels for incident and support tickets, prepare and communicate planned releases

Qualifications Relevant university degree / apprenticeship or corresponding work experience Strong system administration experience Strong experience with distributed systems and cloud/container technologies (Kubernetes, ideally in Azure) Excellent problem-solving abilities, including expertise in root cause analysis Broad experience with monitoring and logging tools Incident management skills Experience in the IT areas of networking and security Ideally some programming skills and experience in C#/.NET and/or Python Experience in CI/CD and automated deployment (ideally Azure DevOps, Terraform, pipelines) Strong experience with Linux environments Fluency in English (both written and spoken) Team player with strong communication skills

Benefits Your development is a priority at Vattenfall BA Markets. Your professional journey will benefit from working in the exciting industry of energy trading, and in interdisciplinary teams. To support your career, we offer opportunities to grow through training, job rotations, talent programs and a working environment that stimulates learning. Our work culture at Vattenfall is excellent. We have an open corporate culture with flat hierarchies. Modern and flexible working conditions, including mobile work, promote wellbeing. In Germany, our work week consists of 37.5 hours with, in many cases, the possibility to work part-time. Up to 49% of your working time can be mobile work, and you are entitled to 30 days of vacation per year. Your health is important to us. We provide several health programs and support throughout vulnerable life situation. Your colleagues will be another highlight. We employ inspiring people with diverse backgrounds. Together with our culture and your tasks, they form an interesting and fun place to work. You can find our new state of the art office next to Elbbrücken. More information We welcome your application in English, no later than 16th of June, 2025. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website. For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our Recruiter Jil Ungethüm via phone at +49 40 79022 1378. At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works collective for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights equal of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other supply, disability or sexual orientation. The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, called Validata. In addition, a certificate of good conduct (i.e. criminal record) is required for certain positions.

We look forward to receiving your application! JOBV1_EN