Our Platform Engineering Team in Düsseldorf is looking for YOU!
We are Uniper
At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!
Your responsibilities
Position Summary:
You will be the technical lead for site reliability for our algorithmic trading and other key platforms—owning reliability, performance, and operational excellence end-to-end. you’ll set the technical direction, drive standards, mentor engineers, and partner with quants, traders, development, and other teams to deliver geo-redundant, containerized, and compliant trading systems with near-zero downtime.
Your Responsibilities:
1. Reliability ownership: Define and drive SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and golden signals for latency-sensitive algo-trading services; lead incident response and postmortems with a blameless culture.
2. Production architecture: Design and evolve geo-redundant, active-active/active-passive topologies across regions and availability zones, including failover, data replication, and disaster recovery (RTO/RPO).
3. Kubernetes at scale: Architect, harden, and operate AKS-based multi-cluster environments (multi-tenant, multi-region), including networking, security, autoscaling, node pools, and upgrade strategies.
4. Infrastructure as Code: Own Terraform blueprints and Ansible automations for everything from base images to cluster add-ons, ensuring idempotent, policy-guarded, and auditable changes.
5. Automation & Efficiency: Build progressive delivery (blue/green, canary) pipelines with gated rollouts and automated rollback for trading microservices, adapters, market data, and execution gateways.
6. Observability & performance: Implement end-to-end tracing (OpenTelemetry), metrics, logs, and synthetic probes; lead capacity planning, perf tests, and p99/p999 latency optimization.
7. Runtime safety: Enforce runtime security, secrets management, image hygiene, and compliance controls integrated “shift-left” into build and deploy workflows.
8. Algo-trading runtime: Operate and optimize Deltix-based components (Timebase DB, Ember, Strategy Server) in containerized, high-availability setups. Own the corresponding Helm charts.
9. Collaboration & leadership: Mentor SREs/DevOps/Developers, guide design reviews, and align with Platform, Security, and Trading stakeholders on priorities and roadmaps.
10. Innovation: Promote a culture of innovation by staying up to date with new technologies and integrating useful advancements into the commercial area.
Your profile
Your profile:
11. A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or other related discipline
Experience:
12. 10+ years in SRE/Platform/Infrastructure roles
13. Hands-on experience running complex, low-latency algo-trading or market-facing systems in production
14. 3+ years of experience as a DevOps/SRE with a clear observability focus
15. 3+ years of experience as Software Developer
16. Expert with Kubernetes (AKS preferred), including cluster lifecycle, networking (CNI, Ingress, eBPF), HPA/VPA, node autoscaling, PodDisruptionBudgets, and surge/zero-downtime upgrades
17. Deep Azure experience: VNet design, Private Link/Endpoints, peering, routing, Managed Identity/Entra ID, Key Vault, Storage, Azure Monitor/Log Analytics, Front Door/Traffic Manager, Load Balancers, App Gateway, API Management
18. Terraform (expert): modular design, state management, workspaces, policies (OPA/Sentinel), and pipeline integration
19. Containers & supply chain: Docker/OCI, image scanning/signing, SBOMs, and build reproducibility
20. Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, alerting design; OpenTelemetry tracing; log pipelines and retention strategies
21. Deltix (required): hands-on operating and tuning Deltix components (e.g., TimeBase/QuantOffice/Ember) in containerized, HA contexts
22. Strong networking (L4/L7, TLS/mTLS, DNS, BGP basics), Linux internals, and performance tuning for low-latency services
23. Proven track record of geo-redundant architectures, DR planning/testing
24. Experience with market data distribution (multicast/unicast), FIX/OUCH/ITCH, and exchange connectivity
25. Fluency in GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD and at least one programming language (e.g., Python or C#) for tooling and diagnostics
26. Excellent communication; ability to lead through influence
27. Fluent in English; German advantageous
Your benefits
At Uniper, we not only reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent company pension and health related benefits for their hard work and dedication to shaping the future energy transition. You can also expect a supportive working culture that offers a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. We enable various flexible working arrangements, whilst also supporting with home office equipment. Through regular training and workshops, together we work towards visualising yourself in our company as if it were your own. We support you in highlighting your individual potential, achieving your personal goals, and reaching your ambitions. We invite you to become part of our diverse company with international colleagues from more than 80 countries. As an employer, Uniper has committed itself to providing special support to certain areas: Work-Life-Balance / New Normal:
28. Choosing how, where, and when to work in accordance with your team and the requirements of your job
29. Modern and ergonomic equipment for your workplace (home & office)
30. Support to balance private life and work: Sabbaticals, part-time possibilities, family service
Mobility:
31. Car and bike leasing offer (deferred compensation)
32. E-car charging stations at almost all Uniper locations
Health offers:
33. Flu vaccination
34. Preventive health services
35. Employee assistance program
Company pension:
36. Employer-funded contributions to a modern pension system
37. Possibility of self-funded contributions with employer-funded matching
Trainings:
38. Lifelong training
39. Coaching
Our employees are the reason for our success. Therefore, you will find many other benefits at the local level to help you reach your potential. Energy evolutionary wanted!