Cloud engineer for Digital Platform Operations - Focus area Network

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission. 

Do you find satisfaction in understanding how your technical expertise enables our business applications and by that be able to Power Climate Smarter Living?

We need to strengthen our cloud operations team with an additional colleague who is driven by technical challenges and the urge to always find better and more efficient ways of delivering services to the customer.

The Digital Platform Operation team is a multi-competence team, operating the Vattenfall Digital Platform; this comes with a big variety of tasks to ensure stable cloud systems. Those tasks are governance (ensuring architectural and security compliance), IaaS, PaaS, Network operation, Monitoring support, Azure DevOps support and capacity management. To handle all those different topics we must automate as much as possible and provide self-service functionality.

Your responsibilities:

As our cloud engineer your major responsible for ensuring a stable cloud platform which is evolving with the needs of the organization.

Specific tasks would include:

• Cloud Networking
  • Understanding Cloud-onPrem connectivity (ExpressRoute, MPLS, BGP)
  • Design, deploy, and manage cloud-based network architectures (e.g., VPCs, subnets, routing, paas specific subnet creation, network Segmentation, private endpoints).
  • Collaborate with DevOps, security, and development teams to integrate networking solutions.
  • Automate network infrastructure provisioning and management using tools like PowerShell, Bicep / Arm.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot network performance issues in cloud environments.
  • Knowledge in designing and operating Next Gen Firewall Environments, ideally Check Point.
• Scripting
  • Writing scripts in Powershell, Bash
• Automation and orchestration
  • Creating and maintaining automation based on scripts using e.g. REST
• Configuration Management
  • Using tools like ARM templates, Bicep but also Ansible or DSC
• OS support
  • Troubleshooting OS issues with Windows and Linux
• Governance
  • Ensuring proper usage of tagging, permission handling, naming and policies
  • Support platform audits
• Financial analyses
  • Having a good understanding of the cloud financial model and the TCO
  • Giving advice on cloud consumption
• Security
  • Manage and react on alerts from Azure Security Center
  • Guiding projects together with IT security for secure implementation
• Source Code Management (Azure DevOps)
  • Manage Azure DevOps (create project rooms, licenses management, feature enablement)
  • Backlog handling

Your profile:

In the role as cloud engineer with the focus on network you will be working in a team that is very close to business but also to Agile IT and Core IT. To succeed in this role it is important that you have the ability to get an T-shaped skill profile. Whereas it is expected you are an expert on Network in Cloud environments. However do also have a basic understanding of OS, Backup, Security, Databases, Web, Azure Paas Services to still be the a generalist we are looking for. So there is not one person dealing e.g. with Network it is the whole team. Since automation is key for our delivery, you are also expected to have the ability to code and/or script. You need to be able to let go of traditional way of working and be open for a fast changing and developing environment.

You are not only an expert technician but you also have social competence and understands the need of the business. You always challenge yourself and others how to improve and develop and are open for suggestions from others but can also give your own.

As cloud engineer you dispose of the following qualifications and skills:

• An academic Degree in IT, engineering, science or mathematics
• Interested in new technologies and a fast learner
• Experience with cloud services
• Experience in a large international environment
• Experience in troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Be able to work under pressure
• Ability to translate complicated technical matters into simple understandable language
• A broad and versatile profile with one or several areas of deeper technical knowledge

We are looking for a specialist who is willing to develop to T-shaped cloud specialist and has a background in network.

Location : 
Flexible (Katowice, Gliwice, Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Solna)

Our offer 
Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. 

This job requires some international travel. You need to be able to work independently in an international team that meets more virtually than physically. Vattenfall wants to be your employer of choice and offers excellent primary and fringe benefits.

You are also expected to take part of an on-call scheduled, shared with your team mates.

More Information 
We welcome your application in English including CV no later than 28. February 2025. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website. 
 
For further questions regarding the position please contact hiring manager Daniël van der Vliet ([email protected]). For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Lukas Berthold via phone: +49 30 81822109. 

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be a good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation. Click here for further information. 

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall and will be performed by a third party, Validata. 

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classified the final candidates might be subject to a security vetting process, according to Swedish legislation. 

We look forward to receiving your application!