Platform Infrastructure Engineer

at  Scope Group

Scope Group is looking for a young Platform Infrastructure Engineer with an understanding of Microsoft’s Azure cloud services and a strong background in networking and security to join our SRE team in Berlin or Frankfurt. This role will manage our Azure and other cloud services, as well as shape and steer the adaptation of new cloud services to meet various business requirements. An outstanding communicator, and diligent planner, determined and ambitious in solving business problems and delivering business services and support. The role requires a responsive, proactive, and highly productive professional who can work with numerous stakeholders to ensure continued success.

Your tasks and responsibilities

• Maintain Scope’s existent Azure cloud and on-premises infrastructure in a Business as Usual (BAU) manner, by provisioning/ de-provisioning services, investigating alerts, troubleshooting issues, root cause analysis
• Monitor our backups regularly and test the restore from the backup, as well as our disaster recovery processes twice a year
• Maintain high availability of the platform by monitoring and responding to incidents promptly
• Continuously improve the Performance Monitoring and Fault Management of Scope’s infrastructure and services
• Developing, maintaining, and improving CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Action/ Argo CD)
• Make sure that Security Best Practices are applied at all levels of our infrastructure and services
• Provide reporting and raise awareness of issues, risks, and concerns to the various business areas to inform, mitigate risk, and drive improvement
• Drive the automation of processes, integration of systems, and adaptation of new technologies
• Collaborate with cross-functional IT professionals to evaluate new cloud services and deliver solutions to various business needs
• Work closely with technical and business colleagues, build trusting long-term partnerships, and ensure a high-level of stakeholder satisfaction

Your professional and personal profile

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience
• Industry certifications and memberships are a plus
• Background in IT Infrastructure, with a minimum 1 year of experience in designing and implementing storage systems, network, load balancing, and firewalling solutions, as well as managing Windows and Linux server farms
• Minimum 1- 2 years of experience in managing the following Microsoft Azure Cloud services:
• Networking (VNET, peering, NSG, ASG, Load Balancer, Traffic Manager, etc.)
• Storage accounts and Data Lake Gen2
• Azure Kubernetes Service and Fleet Manager
• Azure SQL and Azure DB for PostgreSQL
• Experience with configuration management tools
• Minimum 1 years of experience in writing code in Python or
• Good understanding of Relational Databases (MS SQL, MySQL, Postgres SQL)
• Experience with Performance Monitoring and Fault Management
• Good understanding of Networking and Network Protocols (TCP/UDP, DHCP, DNS, HTTP, etc)
• Experience with monitoring tools like Grafana/Prometheus
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

Interested?
If this sounds like a journey for you, we look forward to learning more from your convincing application. Please apply online using our application tool quoting the reference “20240017”. Please note: For non-EU applicants, a valid work and residence permit is a prerequisite for this job position.

What we want to see:

• Current CV
• Copy of your university degrees and certificates
• Criminal record certificate (can be provided at a later date)
• At least 3 letters of reference (can be provided at a later date)

About Scope
With more than 250 employees operating from offices in Berlin, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Oslo and Paris, Scope Group is the leading European provider of independent credit ratings, ESG and fund analysis. Based on forward-looking and innovative methodologies, Scope offers a European perspective that contributes to greater diversity of opinion for institutional investors worldwide. Scope Ratings is the largest European credit rating agency, registered in accordance with EU and UK rating agency regulation, offering opinion-driven and non-mechanistic credit risk analysis. Scope ESG Analysis provides tools for analysing and reporting on ESG impact and risk, as well as second-party opinions on green, social and sustainable bonds. Scope Fund Analysis rates more than 10,000 funds and asset managers across all major asset classes. The shareholders of Scope Group include CEO and founder Florian Schoeller and anchor shareholder Stefan Quandt, numerous senior personalities in European finance and industry as well as institutional investors from several European countries. More on www.scopegroup.co

• Maintain Scope’s existent Azure cloud and on-premises infrastructure in a Business as Usual (BAU) manner, by provisioning/ de-provisioning services, investigating alerts, troubleshooting issues, root cause analysis
• Monitor our backups regularly and test the restore from the backup, as well as our disaster recovery processes twice a year
• Maintain high availability of the platform by monitoring and responding to incidents promptly
• Continuously improve the Performance Monitoring and Fault Management of Scope’s infrastructure and services
• Developing, maintaining, and improving CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Action/ Argo CD)
• Make sure that Security Best Practices are applied at all levels of our infrastructure and services
• Provide reporting and raise awareness of issues, risks, and concerns to the various business areas to inform, mitigate risk, and drive improvement
• Drive the automation of processes, integration of systems, and adaptation of new technologies
• Collaborate with cross-functional IT professionals to evaluate new cloud services and deliver solutions to various business needs
• Work closely with technical and business colleagues, build trusting long-term partnerships, and ensure a high-level of stakeholder satisfactio