Cloud Engineer 80-100% (f/m/d)
Date: 24 Jan 2024
Job ID: 8154
Company: Alpiq AG
Location: Olten, CH
Contract Type: Permanent
Job Type: Full-time position
Job Level: Experienced professionals
Central to Alpiq’s strategy is a growing and dynamic energy trading, sales and origination business which relies on cutting edge IT services and applications to compete and succeed.
We are an international team of software developers, software engineers, solution architects & project managers whose mission is to build and maintain Alpiq’s IT services and applications for a dynamic energy business. We are looking for a Cloud Engineer to evolve and manage Alpiq’s Data & Analytics and Trading solutions and to support Alpiq’s Trading team with data management and Data & Analytics cloud solutions.
You will be part of a larger Data & Analytics team whose mission is to develop and maintain business intelligence, market data and data ops applications & services to meet evolving enterprise’s business needs. The role can be located either in Olten or in Prague.
Your responsibilities
1. Collaborate with Trading and IT stakeholders and teams to drive agile cloud data solutions that meet business requirements and are consistent with IT best practices
2. Align solutions with architecture, security and operations
3. Manage and support database environments, on-premise virtual servers and cloud infrastructure for, and monitoring of, Alpiq’s Data & Analytics applications and services
4. Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the Application lifecycle
5. Coordinate the implementation (incl. release management) of business requirements
6. Follow best practice processes for configuration, change and release management to ensure all changes are properly tracked
7. Design, implement and support cloud migration projects aligned with cloud best practices to ensure robust solutions in a cross-functional team
8. Educate teams on the implementation of new cloud technologies and initiatives
9. Participate in code reviews, document reviews and knowledge sharing activities within the cloud community
Your profile
1. University Degree in Computer Science or similar, Cloud Certification as an advantage
2. Experience in the architecture and engineering of secure and reliable cloud-oriented solutions leveraging the DevSecOps paradigm (i.e. Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
3. Experience in DevOps strategies in multi-account cloud environments
4. Expertise in the support of a complex application environment
5. Experience in databases (SQL) and infrastructure environment (hardware, network and clients)
6. Experience with software engineering and Python. Front-end skills as nice to have
7. Experience in one or more of the following an advantage: Datadog, Snowflake, AWS, Azure, Database environments, server administration
8. Experience in a Financial or Trading environment as an advantage
9. Proficient English skills
Your benefits
1. Generous annual leave incl. bridge days and free working days between Christmas and New Year, as well as opportunity to buy/sell 5 vacation days
2. Very good social benefits and excellent pension fund contributions, optional additional savings contribution (tax free)
3. Financial contribution to daycare center costs and voluntary family allowance
4. Free barista coffee and fruit
5. Various flexible work models
6. Financial and/or time support for further education
What is also important to us:
Diversity and inclusion
At Alpiq, we believe in the power of diverse teams. We pay great attention to keeping our recruiting process free of any discriminatory bias and we actively use diversity as a selection criteria, when personal and functional requirements are met. We always strive to create an inclusive company culture, and an example of this is, that we try to offer part-time solutions for candidates who match our requirements. If you are really keen on a role that is only posted as full time, please reach out to us and we will check if we can find a solution that works for both sides.
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