AWS Cloud Platform engineer m/f/t

Department Insights

Join our Platform team and help to improve the delivery performance of the RWEST developer teams! We design and implement various platform products (e.g. re-usable cloud infrastructure patterns as code) and educate teams in best practices (e.g. Shift Left Security). With a strong DevOps mindset we strive for automation to reduce toil.

Your responsibilities

• Contribute and help accelerate company migration projects in the cloud
• Contributing to the Cloud team standards, identifying and implementing improvements to processes, tools, and standards
• Creating and testing IaC (Infrastructure as Code) using Terraform and delivering products maintaining deadlines
• Collaborating with different product teams including Applications, Operations, Security, Sys Admins etc to define and deliver the required AWS capability for a given project/initiative
• Contribute to improving team culture by promoting transparency, openness, knowledge sharing and actively looking to help other members of the team with support where necessary
• Be a genuine team player i.e. able to share knowledge/experience with other team members.
• Contribute in building a team culture and to help troubleshoot day-to-day issues within the team and also to provide support to other teams where possible
• Supporting our cloud customers during deployment, onboarding, and ensuring security best practices within the cloud environment
• Maintaining our cloud environments in line with company policy
• Create and maintain up-to-date documentation with regards to terraform modules, projects, and customer onboarding

Your powerful skills

• Considerable experience working in AWS Cloud services
• Strong Cloud formation experience
• Experience in working with AWS puppet
• Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner & Solution Architect Associate
• Experience working with serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS etc
• Experience with Git. Managing code check-in, code reviews and maintaining a standardised repository structure
• Experience of creating and managing cloud native CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working in DevOps and with Agile mindset
• Cloud migration and project experience will be preferred
• Experience of monitoring tools specifically through CloudWatch and ELK.
• Experience in Infrastructure and Platform as a Service environments
• DevOps practices like Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Pro-actively keeping up-to-date with industry trends and innovations

Advantageous, but not a must

• Experience with IaC (Terraform). Creating and managing cloud infrastructure using terraform modules
• Academic degree in mathematics, computer science, natural science or comparable degree
• Skills in Cloud security, Cloud network topics,expertise monitoring & logging frameworks

Benefits you can rely on

• Modern RWE Supply & Trading GmbH company culture with flat hierarchies and a very good team spirit
• Enjoy working in a diverse team
• We offer an innovative environment in a dynamic growing Energy market
• You will work in an DevOps team with high potential and high management support
• Working in an agile setup on things that matter
• Excellent compensation and benefits package