Cloud Engineer (f/m/d) 80-100%

Date: 08-Mar-2023

Job ID: 7314

Company: Alpiq AG

Location:

Olten, CH

Contract Type: Permanent

Job Type: Full-time position

Job Level: Experienced professionals

LinkedIn: #LI-SFCH

Central to Alpiq's strategy is a growing and dynamic energy trading, sales and origniation business which relies on cutting edge IT services and applications to compete and succeed.

We are an international team of software developers, software engineers, solutions 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 the Alpiq’s Data & Analytics 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 whose mission is to develop and maintaining business intelligence, market data and data ops applications & services to meet evolving enterprise’s business needs.

Main responsibilities:

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
Align solutions with architecture, security and operations
Manage and support database environments, on-premise virtual servers and cloud infrastructure for, and monitoring of, Alpiqs Data & Analytics applications and services
Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the Application lifecycle.
Coordinate the implementation (incl. release management) of business requirements
Follow best practice processes for configuration, change and release management to ensure all changes are properly tracked

Additional responsibilities as needed:

Design, implement and support cloud migration projects aligned with cloud best practices to ensure robust solutions in a cross-functional team.
Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud technologies and initiatives.
Participate in code reviews, document reviews and knowledge sharing activities within the cloud community

Main qualifications:

University Degree in Computer Science or similar, Cloud Certification an advantage
Experienced in the architecture and engineering of secure and reliable cloud-oriented solutions leveraging the DevSecOps paradigm (i.e. Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
Experience in DevOps strategies in multi-account cloud environments
Expertise in the support of a complex application environment
Experience in databases (SQL) and infrastructure environment (hardware, network and clients)
Experience in one or more of the following an advantage: Datadog, Snowflake, AWS, Azure, Database environments, server administration
Experience in a Financial or Trading environment is an advantage
Languages: Good English Skills

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. Is that important to you and are you really keen on a role, that is only posted as full time? If yes, then please reach out to us and we will check if we can find a solution that works for both sides.

Attractive employment conditions
The energy business is a small and complex world and it’s important to us, to use contemporary and attractive employment conditions to attract the best talent. As a pan-European company, our conditions and benefits are adapted to the local markets. You can find more information about this on our career site. We are currently also reviewing our flexible working guidelines. If we meet in an interview, we will be more than happy to answer any questions you might have around this topic.

Data protection and process
At Alpiq, data protection is an important topic. Please pay close attention to the corresponding disclaimer, which appears in the online application form and explains in detail, what we do with your data. In regards to the recruiting process, we want to keep it as fair and transparent as possible. Even though we try to consider candidate needs individually, we are not always able to avoid standard communication, due to the high number of applications. Therefore, we kindly ask for your understanding. For more information about our recruiting process and some useful tips and tricks on how to apply, please follow this link.

Are you ready to apply now? Need more information about Alpiq? Then follow this link to our homepage.

Alina Tauscher

Contact: alina.tauscher@alpiq.com

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