Senior DevOps Engineer – Azure & Terraform (m/f/d)

Simon‑Kucher; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Daycare allowance

Corporate discounts

Wellbeing support (Headspace)

Healthy snacks

Employee events

World Meeting & Holiday Party

Job summary

Simon-Kucher is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate Azure infrastructure using Terraform across multiple production environments. You will own Terraform architecture, define reusable IaC standards, and drive end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.

Strong Kubernetes, AKS, and security practices are essential; exceptional communication in English is required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud, or Platform Engineering with clear evidence of Senior-level ownership.
• Deep hands-on Terraform expertise is a core requirement, including designing, implementing, and operating production infrastructure at scale.
• Nice to have: Terraform Associate certification or other Terraform certification.
• Strong Azure DevOps experience, especially enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines; GitHub Actions is a plus.
• Solid Kubernetes experience, preferably AKS, plus Docker/containerization knowledge.
• Proven experience leading complex production incidents and driving root-cause analysis and follow-up improvements.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills and ability to explain technical risks clearly.
• Nice to have: experience with Azure AI/Foundry, LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Azure infrastructure using Terraform as the primary IaC platform.
• Own Terraform architecture across multiple production environments, including modules, state, versioning, dependencies, and environment separation.
• Define reusable IaC standards, patterns, and automation for adoption across engineering teams.
• Build and improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines covering build, test, infrastructure deployment, application deployment, approvals, rollback, and release controls.
• Establish SDLC practices including code quality, security scanning, quality gates, and tools such as SonarQube.
• Design secure Azure environments using VNets, private endpoints, RBAC, Managed Identities, Key Vault, and least-privilege principles.
• Operate and improve AKS environments, including deployment, scaling, networking, observability, security, and troubleshooting.
• Lead production incident management, including investigation, prioritization, technical coordination, communication, resolution, and root-cause follow-up.
• Make and communicate architectural decisions, explaining trade-offs, risks, operational impact, and maintainability.
• Take end-to-end ownership of platform initiatives while guiding engineers and communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Terraform

Azure

AKS

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Security best practices

Incident management

English communication

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

AKS

Docker

LangChain

LangGraph

LangSmith

SonarQube

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer – Azure & Terraform (m/f/d)

In Germany - Berlin| Bonn | Cologne | Frankfurt/Main | Hamburg | Munich

Simon-Kucher is enabling itsemployees with generative AI based solutions to improve productivity. Tosupport this endeavor, a central Data & AI function is being established.Together with our Data Analytics team Elevate and the Software Development teamEngine, the demand for support of software development by IT is constantlyincreasing.

What makes us special:

• Advance your career withexciting professional opportunities in our thriving company with a startupfeel.
• Voice your unique ideas in acorporate culture defined by openness and integrity.
• Enjoy the opportunity to workfrom abroad (workation).
• Feel at home working with ourhelpful, enthusiastic colleagues who have great team spirit.
• Broaden your perspective withour extensive training curriculum and learning programs (e.g. LinkedInLearning).
• Speak your mind in our holisticfeedback and development processes (e.g. 360-degree feedback).
• Satisfy your need for adventurewith our opportunities to live and work abroad in one of our manyinternational offices
• Enjoy our benefits, such ashybrid working, daycare allowance, corporate discounts, and wellbeingsupport (e.g. Headspace).
• Unwind in our break areas whereyou can help yourself to the healthy snacks and beverages provided.
• See another side of yourcoworkers at our frequent employee events and highly anticipated WorldMeeting and Holiday Party.

How you will create an impact:

• Design, build, and operate Azure infrastructure using Terraform as the primary Infrastructure as Code platform.
• Own Terraform architecture across multiple production environments, including modules, state, versioning, dependencies, and environment separation.
• Define reusable IaC standards, patterns, and automation that can be adopted across engineering teams.
• Build and improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines covering build, test, infrastructure deployment, application deployment, approvals, rollback, and release controls.
• Establish strong SDLC practices including code quality, security scanning, quality gates, and tools such as SonarQube.
• Design secure Azure environments using VNets, private endpoints, RBAC, Managed Identities, Key Vault, and least-privilege principles.
• Operate and improve AKS environments, including deployment, scaling, networking, observability, security, and troubleshooting.
• Lead production incident management, including investigation, prioritization, technical coordination, communication, resolution, and root-cause follow-up.
• Make and communicate architectural decisions, clearly explaining trade-offs, risks, operational impact, and maintainability.
• Take end-to-end ownership of platform initiatives while guiding engineers and communicating effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

About you:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud, or Platform Engineering with clear evidence of Senior-level ownership. Ability to work independently, make technical decisions, guide other engineers, and communicate clearly in English (C1+).
• Deep hands-on Terraform expertise is a core requirement, including personally designing, implementing, and operating production infrastructure at scale. Nice to have: HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification or another relevant Terraform certification.
• Proven experience managing Terraform across multiple complex production environments, with strong knowledge of modules, state, lifecycle, imports, dependencies, and deployment strategies. A plus: Experience managing infrastructure across a large number of production environments.
  Strong hands-on Azure experience, including secure networking, identity, access management, secrets management, and production operations.
• Strong Azure DevOps experience, particularly designing and maintaining enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines. Nice to have: Experience with GitHub Actions.
• Good understanding of the complete SDLC, including automated testing, code quality, security scanning, artifact management, approvals, and release governance. Additional advantage: Experience with Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, or container/image security tooling.
• Solid Kubernetes experience, preferably with AKS, plus strong Docker and containerization knowledge.
• Proven experience leading complex production incidents and driving root-cause analysis and follow-up improvements.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain technical risks, trade-offs, incidents, and delivery challenges clearly.
• Nice to have: Experience with Azure AI / Foundry, ML platforms, or data-heavy workloads. Additional asset: Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, or similar AI orchestration, evaluation, and observability platforms.

Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,200 employees in 30+ countries. As a trusted commercial advisor focused on unlocking better growth, we combine deep consulting expertise, growth specialization, and technology to scale lasting impact. We optimize every lever of commercial strategy – product, pricing, innovation, marketing, and sales – based on what customers want and value. With over 40 years of monetization experience, we are recognized as the world’s leading commercial growth and pricing specialist. simon-kucher.com

We believe in building a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating an environment in which our people feel valued, are able to be themselves and feel their contribution matters. If we get that right, remarkable things will happen; people will grow faster, innovate, feel valued, and create better outcomes for everyone – our people, our clients and, of course, our business.

Christina Jaup-Schwilk
recruitment.germany(at)simon-kucher.com

Better growth starts here. With you.