cuculus-gmbh
Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer - Project Delivery & Implementation (m/f/d)
Cuculus, a smart-metering/energy software company, seeks a hands-on senior engineer to design and deliver secure, scalable cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments for customer projects using AWS/Azure, Terraform, OpenShift/Kubernetes and CI/CD tooling — from provisioning through migration, production go-live and handover.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Leipzig
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure or system engineering
- Proven experience independently building customer or production environments end to end, including migration and go-live
- Degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent qualification
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or an equivalent enterprise cloud platform
- Experience with on-premises or hybrid infrastructure, not only public cloud
- Hands-on experience with OpenShift and/or production-grade Kubernetes plus strong Linux administration and troubleshooting
- Strong knowledge of networking, IAM, compute, storage, databases, load balancing, DNS, firewalls, private connectivity and TLS
- Strong hands-on Terraform experience including reusable modules, state management and version control
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines and automation using Ansible, Python, Bash/Shell or equivalent tools
- Experience with cloud monitoring, security, compliance, backup, HA/DR, scalability and cost optimization
- Strong troubleshooting, customer-facing communication, documentation and cross-team collaboration skills
- Good English skills (company language is English)
- Work from Leipzig, Erfurt or Ilmenau office 3 days per week (or ~once a month if living further away in Germany)
Nice to have
- Advanced OpenShift, EKS, AKS or comparable enterprise container-platform experience
- Experience with Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, Flux, GitOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or comparable monitoring tooling
- Hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud landing zones, migrations, upgrades and modernisation experience
- Relevant cloud, Terraform, OpenShift or Kubernetes certifications; exposure to FinOps, enterprise security or regulated environments
- Utilities, energy, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), smart metering, HES or MDMS experience
Full description
Permanent / Full-time / Leipzig, Erfurt or Ilmenau (hybrid) – remote within Germany possible / Start ASAP
Cuculus is looking for a hands-on senior engineer to design, build, implement and manage secure, scalable and cost-effective cloud and infrastructure environments for customer projects across cloud, on-premises and hybrid platforms.
Own customer environment delivery from approved architecture through cloud provisioning, Infrastructure as Code, OpenShift/Kubernetes implementation, migration, production readiness, optimization and handover. This is not a routine Production Support role; the engineer will assist with critical customer issues requiring specialist expertise.
Cloud infrastructure and services
- Design, deploy and manage cloud infrastructure and services across AWS, Azure or equivalent platforms, including on-premises and hybrid integrations.
- Configure networking, identity and access management, compute, storage, databases, load balancers, DNS, firewalls and customer connectivity.
- Translate approved architecture into development, UAT, staging, production, High Availability and Disaster Recovery environments.
Infrastructure as Code, platforms and CI/CD
- Implement version-controlled Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and develop secure, reusable modules for repeatable customer environment builds.
- Deploy, configure and manage OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms, including networking, ingress, storage, certificates, RBAC, secrets and workload resources.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and cloud automation using approved tools such as Ansible, Helm, GitOps, Python and Bash/Shell.
Security, resilience, monitoring and cost
- Apply cloud security, compliance and governance requirements across IAM/RBAC, encryption, secrets, network controls, operating systems and platform configuration.
- Implement backup, High Availability and Disaster Recovery practices and validate recovery against defined RTO and RPO requirements where applicable.
- Monitor performance, availability, security and cost; optimize scalability, resilience, capacity and cloud spending without compromising service requirements.
Migrations, delivery and technical escalation
- Assess and support infrastructure and workload migrations, including dependencies, cutover planning, rollback, validation and post-migration stabilization.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, cloud-platform, CI/CD and deployment issues during implementation, testing, go-live and major technical escalations.
- Complete production-readiness checks, acceptance evidence, knowledge transfer and formal handover; routine operational ownership remains with Production Support.