Cloud Enablement Engineer

Main tasks/activities:

• Understand all infrastructure as code (IaC) artefacts in Azure DevOps, with specific focus on Kubernetes, Kafka, Zookeeper, NoSQL. Basic knowledge of SAP infrastructure and deployment strategies
• Develop CI/CD process for IaC and Microservice (Spring Boot, Python) deployments
• Design and maintain an agile release concept for IaC, Microservices and data
• Implementation of cloud-native architecture vision using Azure
• Further enhance DevOps automation features e.g. by creating pipelines
• Communication and rollout of new DevOps automation features to application development teams
• Work with developers to understand the runtimes of their apps and their interaction with Apache Kafka.
• Ensure communication flow with regards to automation and application runtime to various stakeholders
• Align with Security lead on quality controls and continuous testing best practices
• Design and implement lifecycle (non-prod vs prod) for data
• Support and give guidance on the test-driven development practices and the implementation thereof in the pipelines.
• Continuously work with the teams to improve all components as the use-cases grow more complex
• Train other engineers
• Ensure compliance with the company wide digital governance framework, audit
• Documentation of all of the above (readme, wiki and JIRA)
• Presentation of developed concepts in various bodies

Position requirements:

• Public Cloud relevant experience with practical implementation on Azure
• Strong and proven automation experience in Azure DevOps
• Expert knowledge of Azure DevOps pipelines
• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes deployments, container isolation and multi-tenancy
• Strong knowledge of automation tools like Ansible
• Strong experience with "Infrastructure as Code
• Good knowledge of container technologies e.g. Docker
• Good knowledge of git
• Test driven development: understands semantics of unit tests and end to end integration tests and the imperative for continuous testing
• Worked with CI/CD for integration, migration and deployment: Experience in automated build, test & deploy
• Excellent communication in English, written and spoken
• Delegation and (self-)management skills for working in a flat and distributed team
• Linux OS (alpine, Ubuntu, SLES) and Unix
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture and micro-services
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills

Nice to have skills:

• Experience with event-sourcing architectures built on Apache Kafka, CQRS
• Performance testing
• NoSQL Databases
• SAP Netweaver

Frameworks / Tools:

• Azure DevOps, Ansible, yaml-pipelines, Helm, build agents, scripting (bash, python)
• Container-based (Docker / Kubernetes) orchestration
• Can read code written in industry standard polyglot (Java/ Spring/ Python/ JS)
• DB-queries (also NoSQL) e.g. SAP HANA, Postgres
• Cloud managed services (e.g. Blob Storage, databases, Insights, Security Center)
• Build and deployment tools such as Git, Gradle, Maven
• API Gateways, HTTPS, REST/ODATA/GraphQL/etc API-specs
• State-management e.g. Zookeeper, Schema Registry, Event Store
• Aqua, DataDog, Zeebe