Next Kraftwerke GmbH | Germany | 50xxx Köln | Permanent position | Part time - flexible / Full time / Home office | Published since: 27.08.2026 on stepstone.de
Team Lead Datacenter & Infrastructure (m/f/d)
Do you want the energy transition to progress faster and do you want to contribute to the transformation of our energy system? Then you are right with us! We operate one of the largest virtual power plants in Europe in which thousands of electricity producers, consumers and storage units are connected. With our team we are actively working on the implementation of a green electricity market in the future – at our location in the middle of Cologne-Ehrenfeld, in our European branches and, of course, in the home office. Team Lead Datacenter & Infrastructure (w/m/d) As a Team Lead Datacenter & Infrastructure, you take responsibility for the infrastructure that keeps our Virtual Power Plant and our company running: Compute, Connectivity, Storage, Backups and Kubernetes. You lead a team of ten experienced engineers, develop our automated and platform-based infrastructure and ensure that resilience is an integral part of all our systems. A newly founded team awaits you with a clear order and a lot of design space from the first day. Flexible working time models are not an empty flea for us, but a living company reality. Whether full-time or part-time - let us know how we find each other on this point. .
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You lead, develop and coach a team of experienced infrastructure engineers as well as external partners. You take the end-to-end responsibility for our data center infrastructure, including hardware lifecycle management, rack setup and cabling, virtualization platforms and operating systems. You continue to operate and develop our network infrastructure together with your team, including Datacenter Switching & Routing, WAN, BGP, Firewalling, Load Balancing and Connectivity. You are responsible for the operation and further development of our productive Kubernetes platform (Red Hat OpenShift) as well as the storage and backup landscape behind it. You drive automation and platform engineering to integrate resilience, availability and compliance from the outset into our infrastructure. From the outset, you will form a newly founded team, including its culture, working methods, roadmap and collaboration with adjacent teams.
You have multi-year leadership experience as Team Lead and have real interest in developing people. You bring several years of experience in operating operational or critical infrastructures, ideally in KRITIS or other regulated environments. You will bring a sound technical understanding of data center operations (compound, virtualization, operating systems) as well as enterprise networking (routing, BGP, firewalling, DNS and network architectures). You have practical experience with container platforms, ideally Red Hat OpenShift, as well as storage and backup concepts. You are structuring and confident with incidents, risks and resilience topics. Experiences in the environment of ISO 27001, KRITIS or NIS2 audits are a plus. You speak German and English fluently in word and writing.
Hybrid and flexible work incl. Home office equipment The possibility to save additional vacation days and use them flexibly with our Flextime work model Comprehensive further development options such as language courses, coaching and training Jobrad and Deutschlandticket Sports offers such as Urban Sports Club, Yoga courses Regular Events: Summer Festival, Christmas Party, LAN-Party, After-Work Pizza & Drinks External support in finding kita places and other private and professional challenges
Location
 | Next Kraftwerke GmbH | |
| 50825 Köln | ||
| Germany |
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