Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Application Engineer to join our team in shaping and maintaining mission-critical IT solutions around scheduling and data management.
This role is ideal for a technical professional with a strategic mindset, keen to learn and drive business impact.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Manage our critical software applications, ensuring smooth operations and efficient use of resources.
2. Cover a wide range of activities from day-to-day operations to long-term strategy development and team-overarching initiatives.
3. Work closely with business stakeholders to get end-to-end process understanding and propose robust, scalable technical solutions.
4. Drive modernization of our software stack, including transformation to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and cloud-native deployment.
5. Manage software vendors, ensuring quality assurance and optimal value delivery.
6. Show your sense of responsibility and team player attitude, participating in 24/7 support team rotation.
What You Bring:
1. Bachelor's or Master's degree in IT, engineering, economics, or equivalent.
2. 5-10 years of experience as application engineer, technical business analyst, solution engineer, developer, or similar hybrid role.
3. Solid foundation in software development, system engineering, and IT architecture.
4. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to adapt to, manage, and influence business & IT stakeholders.
5. Excellent analytical skills and collaborative, agile team player.
6. Fluent in English, German is mandatory.
7. One or more of the following are a big plus: working experience in the energy sector, familiarity with Kubernetes, Azure Services, Microsoft Intune, Azure Cloud infrastructure, Terraform, Python, Java, etc.
About the Team:
You will be part of a dedicated team taking responsibility for critical IT applications short-term (operations) and long-term (projects). We collaborate closely with business stakeholders, IT architects, developers, on-premises and Azure infrastructure system engineers, and application vendors to maximize business value from our IT applications.