Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS d/f/m

RWE Supply & Trading GmbH

To start as soon as possible, full time / part time , permanent

Functional area: IT / Digital

Remuneration: tariff/non-tariff

Department Insights

Join our Platform team and help to provide a reliable, stable and scalable AWS Cloud platform that helps enhance the delivery performance of the RWEST developer teams! Working closely with security and networking teams we ensure that the platform is up to date with state-of-the-art networking and security guardrails. Working with a DevOps mindset in an agile environment we also develop and maintain reusable infrastructure components that are highly optimised for resource usage and costs.

Your responsibilities

• Contributing to the Cloud team standards, identifying and implementing improvements to processes, tools, and standards
• Creating and testing IaC (Infrastructure as Code) using CloudFormation(CFN) and delivering products to a deadline
• Collaborating with different product teams including Applications, Operations, Security, Networking 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 and learn from those around you
• Collaborate with other team members to troubleshoot day-to-day issues
• Maintaining our cloud environments in line with company policy
• Understand when to use different deployment approaches (blue-green, canaried, etc)
• Understand what is needed for a reliable CI/CD pipeline infrastructure
• Design and implement products that are dynamically scalable and reliable with disaster recovery considered
• Write code that is clear, consistent and concise while considering coding standards within the team and any observability requirements
• Clearly communicate technical hurdles within the team and translate complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Support and drive FinOps practices to optimize cloud costs and ensure efficient resource utilization

Your powerful skills

• Considerable knowledge of a major coding language (Python preferred)
• Demonstrate strong understanding of basic coding principals (Recursion, Modularity, Readability, Error Handling, etc)
• Considerable experience working in a Cloud service (AWS Preferred)
• Experience in using IaC software tools (CFN, Terraform(TF))
• 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
• An understanding of how to create and manage cloud native CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working in DevOps and with Agile mindset
• Experience of monitoring tools specifically through CloudWatch
• Experience in Infrastructure and Platform as a Service environments
• DevOps practices like Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Understand cloud networking and security best practices

Advantageous, but not a must

• Cloud migration and project experience will be preferred
• Academic degree in mathematics, computer science, natural science or comparable degree
• Skills in Cloud security, Cloud network topics, expertise in monitoring & logging frameworks
• Experience in working with AWS Service Catalog Puppet
• Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner & Solution Architect Associate
• We are expanding our FinOps operations within the team as part of that the following skills are desirable:
  • An understanding of Financial or data analytics as well as cloud cost optimisation
  • Experience with AWS Glue, Athena, QuickSight & Excel preferred
• German - spoken and written

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

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RWE Supply & Trading is the interface between RWE and the energy markets around the world. Approximately 2000 employees from over 70 different countries trade electricity, gas, commodities and CO2 emission allowances. The trading entity also ensures the commercial optimisation of RWE's power plant dispatch and markets electricity from RWE.

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