As a Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for the development and maintenance of our Azure infrastructure, ensuring it remains robust and scalable to meet the demands of our growing operations. In this role, you will provide essential support to internal teams, assisting them in the deployment and operation of various applications, ensuring seamless integration and functionality. Your expertise in Cloud Engineering, coupled with your proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD, will be critical in driving our modernization initiative forward. By leveraging your skills and experience, you will play a pivotal role in transforming one of Europe’s leading virtual power plants, contributing significantly to our mission of innovation and efficiency in the energy sector. Whether full-time or part-time, fully remote or on-site – let us know how we match up. To stay connected as a team, we only ask for three on-site days per quarter. This is what you like You help shape and continuously develop our cloud infrastructure and platform with a strong focus on quality. You drive IT projects from concept and evaluation to implementation, operation, and support. You automate processes and infrastructure using Terraform or Ansible to ensure scalable, consistent environments. You implement and operate CI/CD pipelines to enable smooth and secure deployments. You support mission‑critical systems by being part of the 24/7 on‑call rotation and responding to alerts in a timely manner. You collaborate closely with architects and with your agile, international team to create guidelines, best practices, and shared engineering standards while you mentor and support your colleagues in their professional growth. These are your qualifications and skills You work confidently with Microsoft Azure in productive environments. You automate infrastructure with Terraform and/or Ansible following modern engineering standards, by creating CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions. You script in Python to support automation, tooling, and operational scenarios. You integrate IT security and regulatory requirements (including KRITIS) into concepts and daily operations. You think holistically, applying a platform‑engineering mindset to improve architectures, processes, and overall service quality. You speak English fluently; German is a plus. This is what our colleagues say "A challenging and highly rewarding role - working in the energy sector, you’ll tackle complex problems, grow technically, and develop on a personal level every day. " Anders, Cloud Engineer at Next Kraftwerke What's in it for you? We offer you a friendly team in which you have much room to contribute your ideas, as well as a challenging and varied job with a high level of personal responsibility. Join us in shaping the energy transition in Europe. If this job description suits you, please send us a detailed application via the link below. Hybrid and flexible working including home office equipment The opportunity to save up additional vacation days and use them flexibly with our Flextime working model Comprehensive further development opportunities such as language courses, coaching and training Job bike and Germany ticket Sports offers e.g (Urban Sports Club, Yoga courses) Regular events: summer party, Christmas party, LAN party, after-work pizza & drinks External support in finding daycare places as well as other private and professional challenges We adhere to non-disclosure guidlines and guarantee that your answers will be anonymous.