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

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Daycare allowance

Corporate discounts

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Simon-Kucher is seeking a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to design, build and operate Azure infrastructure using Terraform at scale. You will own Terraform modules, CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, and secure production environments across AKS clusters.

You will lead incident response, drive root-cause analysis, and communicate trade-offs and risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders while shaping platform initiatives across multiple production environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud, or Platform Engineering with senior ownership.
• Strong hands-on Terraform experience including production-scale design and operation.
• Solid Azure experience: networking, identity, secrets management, and production ops.
• Excellent communication with stakeholders, including technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Azure infrastructure using Terraform as the IaC platform.
• Own Terraform architecture across multiple production environments, modules, state, and dependencies.
• Define reusable IaC standards and automation adopted across teams.
• Build and improve Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for build, test, deployment, approvals, and release controls.
• Lead production incident management and root-cause analysis, with clear communication of risks and trade-offs.

Skills

Senior ownership

Independent work

Clear English communication

Stakeholder management

SDLC expertise

Education

HashiCorp Terraform Associate (nice to have)

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes (AKS)

Docker

GitHub Actions

LangChain / AI orchestration (nice to have)

Job description

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

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

What Makes Us Special

• Advance your career with exciting professional opportunities in our thriving company with a startup feel.
• Voice your unique ideas in a corporate culture defined by openness and integrity.
• Enjoy the opportunity to work from abroad (workation).
• Feel at home working with our helpful, enthusiastic colleagues who have great team spirit.
• Broaden your perspective with our extensive training curriculum and learning programs (e.g. LinkedIn Learning).
• Speak your mind in our holistic feedback and development processes (e.g. 360-degree feedback).
• Satisfy your need for adventure with our opportunities to live and work abroad in one of our many international offices
• Enjoy our benefits, such as hybrid working, daycare allowance, corporate discounts, and wellbeing support (e.g. Headspace).
• Unwind in our break areas where you can help yourself to the healthy snacks and beverages provided.
• See another side of your coworkers at our frequent employee events and highly anticipated World Meeting 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.

About Simon-Kucher

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.

Better growth starts here. With you.