Next Kraftwerke GmbH | Germany | Deutschland gesamt Köln, Home-Office | Permanent position | Part time - flexible / Full time / Home office | Published since: 06.03.2026 on stepstone.de
(Senior) Cloud Engineer Azure Platform (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. (Senior) Cloud Engineer (m/d) Azure Platform As a (senior) cloud engineer, you are responsible for the development and maintenance of our Azure infrastructure and ensure that it remains stable and scalable to meet the requirements of our growing operation. In this role, you support internal teams in providing and operating different applications, ensuring smooth integration and functionality. Your expertise in cloud engineering as well as your capabilities in infrastructure as code (IaC) and CI/CD are key to driving our modernization initiative. With your skills and experience, you play a central role in transforming one of Europe's leading virtual power plants and making an important contribution to our mission of innovation and efficiency in the energy sector. Whether in full-time or part-time, remote or on site – let us know what suits you. In order to stay connected as a team, we wish only three days per quarter. .
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Your tasks • Your profile • What we offer
You actively shape our cloud infrastructure and platform and continuously develop it with a strong focus on quality. You drive IT projects from conception and evaluation to implementation, operation and support. You automate processes and infrastructure using Terraform or Ansible to ensure scalable and consistent environments. You implement and operate CI/CD pipelines to enable smooth and secure deployments. You support business-critical systems by being part of the 24/7 readiness and reaping to Alerts in a timely manner. You work closely with architects and your agile, international team, first set guidelines, best practices and common engineering standards and support colleagues in their professional development.
You can work with Microsoft Azure in productive environments. You automate infrastructure with terraform and/or ansible according to modern engineering standards and start CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions. You're in Python to support automation, tooling and operating scenarios. You integrate IT security and regulatory requirements (including KRITIS) into concepts and daily operation. You think holistic and introduce a platform engineering set to improve architectures, processes and service quality. You will certainly communicate in German and English, both oral and written.
Hybrid and flexible work incl. Home office equipment 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, Home-Office | ||
| Germany |
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