Cloud Platform Engineer - Azure (All genders)

at  zooplus SE

Company Description
More than 20 years ago, zooplus was one of the first to bring the pet category into the world of eCommerce. Today, we stand strong as Europe’s leading online pet platform, delivering moments of happiness to more than 9 million pet parents each year.
We’re on a mission to create joy for pets and their parents, driven by our core values of Care, Courage, Openness, and Simplicity. At the heart of everything we do, they inspire us to grow, raise the bar for our customers and fuel a pet-first business.
Job Description
As a Cloud Engineer in our Cloud Engineering Chapter, you will be joining the Infrastructure Platform & Security Services department. You will work on the heart of Zooplus IT responsible for continuous operations and relentless improvement of our 24/7 E-Commerce Infrastructure. Working in a Product Organization means focussing on Primary topics (Technical Products) whilst supporting and collaborating in Cross-functional topics. With an already strong and mature DevOps and Infrastructure as Code approach we focus on further developing and innovating on new parts of our platform as well as enabling and guiding our Technical users and DevOps Teams. You are given the freedom to develop a preference and focus on some Technical Products in your Chapter, while engagement in supporting other Technical Products is welcome and supported.
Chapter overview
The Cloud Engineering Chapter is currently responsible for two Technical Products: AWS Cloud Platform and Azure Cloud Platform. We implement central management tools and general architecture to provide a framework for our DevOps teams to operate their products in. We are looking to bring up the Azure Cloud Platform to the same maturity level as our AWS Cloud Platform and build up the foundations.

Your responsibilities

• You implement best practices for security, governance and management of cloud environments
• You participate in the development and management of in-house provisioning and account management tools
• You specialise in one public cloud vendor and support others
• You build secure baselines to be provisioned in the cloud environments for our products
• You provide solutions by making use of open-source tools or implementing your own
• You drive automation to help our teams to improve their time-to-market
• You improve our platform availability and stability to ensure the company business can run without disruptions
• You support our DevOps teams in using our products and services in the most efficient way
• You ensure 24/7 availability of our platform services and practice incident response during on-call duty

QUALIFICATIONS

• You are passionate about new technologies in the field of Cloud Engineering
• You possess a University degree in a relevant field or have a proven track record in Cloud Engineering projects
• You already have at least 3 years of relevant Cloud Engineering experience
• You gained wide experience working with the Azure cloud provider:
• strong knowledge in Azure IAM (RBAC, PIM, AD)
• strong knowledge in Azure Governance (Azure Management Groups, Azure Policy, Azure Blueprints, Cost Management)
• strong knowledge in Azure Security services (Azure Security Center, Azure Key Vault, ATP, NSGs and others)
• strong knowledge in Azure Networking (Azure VNet, DNS, Azure firewall, VNet Gateways (ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway))
• strong knowledge in Azure Monitor (Platform and VM monitoring, alerting & visualization), Azure Network Watcher, Logic Apps
• general understanding of all other Azure products and services
• willingness to support in other cloud environments
• You have expertise in automation and configuration management best practices and tools (e.g TerraForm or Azure Automation)
• Your general understanding of Network Infrastructure basics such as DNS, DHCP, Firewalling and Load Balancing will help you work cross-functional
• You have experience working with technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes
• You are familiar with the DevOps toolbox git, docker, Jira, Confluence, BitBucket and others
• You are engaged in and improve the whole lifecycle of services: From inception and design - to deployment, operation and refinement.
• You are open-minded, aligned to business needs and solution-oriented and keen on working in cross-functional teams.
• You speak fluent English (at least CEFR B2)
  Additional Information
  With more than 1,000 passionate professionals located across 10 European offices, we believe our success comes from working together and leveraging our international strengths. Expect to work in a hybrid environment, collaborating with colleagues in different locations remotely.

• You implement best practices for security, governance and management of cloud environments
• You participate in the development and management of in-house provisioning and account management tools
• You specialise in one public cloud vendor and support others
• You build secure baselines to be provisioned in the cloud environments for our products
• You provide solutions by making use of open-source tools or implementing your own
• You drive automation to help our teams to improve their time-to-market
• You improve our platform availability and stability to ensure the company business can run without disruptions
• You support our DevOps teams in using our products and services in the most efficient way
• You ensure 24/7 availability of our platform services and practice incident response during on-call dut