Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join Rackspace Technology, a leading IT services provider, and become a Cloud Engineer. Design and implement scalable, secure cloud solutions using Azure, collaborating with engineering and architecture teams. Conduct cloud engineering tasks within agile sprints, build new cloud environments for customers, and utilize architectural concepts for automated infrastructure and CI/CD processes. Present technical solutions to various stakeholders, consult customer teams on technology options, and act as a Rackspace voice in customer projects, ensuring quality and success. This role requires proven experience in complex cloud projects, expertise in designing and operating cloud infrastructures, strong customer orientation, and excellent communication skills. The ideal candidate will possess experience with cloud-native architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and programming/scripting.

Requirements

• Proven experience in performing complex cloud projects, from conception to productive deployment
• Sound expertise in design, deployment and operation of automated, secure and stable cloud infrastructures (AWS or Azure)
• Strong customer orientation and willingness to take on tasks such as provisioning, maintenance and further development of cloud-based systems
• Ability to participate in technical discussions at different levels, from architectural decisions to concrete implementation
• Application of automation-oriented principles in the context of agile project methods
• Strong communication and team skills as well as safe action in German-speaking customer environments
• Sound experience with cloud-native architectures on AWS and/or Azure , both in the IaaS and PaaS area
• Practice in the development of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code approaches , ideally with: Terraform, Ansible, Python, YAML, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes
• Knowledge in programming and scripting (e.g. B. Python, Go, JavaScript) and experience in development or DevOps teams
• Familiarity with common security concepts in the cloud (IAM, KMS, key vaults, role-based access control, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of scalable, secure cloud solutions in close collaboration with engineering and architecture teams
• Conducting cloud engineering tasks within agile sprints using established best practices and templates
• Build new cloud environments for customers using native Azure services
• Use of architectural concepts and reusable components for setting up automated infrastructure, CI/CD processes and supporting tools
• Presentation of technical solutions to different target groups, from developers to analysts to executives
• Consulting customer teams and decision makers on technology options, best practices and added value of cloud-native approaches
• Appearance as a voice of Rackspace in the customer project, with responsibility for quality, technical transparency and implementation success

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideally experience in enterprise-scale environments with direct customer contact
• Ability to convey complex technical concepts in a comprehensible way and to act as a trustworthy advisor