# Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer - Project Delivery & Implementation (m/f/d) at Cuculus Gmbh > Germany · Senior · DevOps / SRE / Infra · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/personio%3Acuculus-gmbh%3A2824002 (read 2026-11-09). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [Cuculus Gmbh](https://alderhq.app/companies/cuculus-gmbh) - Location text: Leipzig; Ilmenau; Erfurt - Where it can be done from (inferred): Germany (evidence: "Location: Leipzig; Ilmenau; Erfurt") - Posted: 2026-10-01 (39 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-04 · last verified: 2026-11-08 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://cuculus-gmbh.jobs.personio.de/job/2824002 - Skills listed (inferred): Python, Elasticsearch, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: not posted ## Description (the employer's text) ### Shape the utilities market of the future with us! Cuculus is looking for a hands-on senior engineer to design, build, implement and manage secure, scalable and cost-effective cloud and infrastructure environments for customer projects across cloud, on-premises and hybrid platforms. ### What is the role about? Own customer environment delivery from approved architecture through cloud provisioning, Infrastructure as Code, OpenShift/Kubernetes implementation, migration, production readiness, optimization and handover. This is not a routine Production Support role; the engineer will assist with critical customer issues requiring specialist expertise. ### Your Role at a Glance - Design, deploy and manage cloud infrastructure and services across AWS, Azure or equivalent platforms, including on-premises and hybrid integrations. - Configure networking, identity and access management, compute, storage, databases, load balancers, DNS, firewalls and customer connectivity. - Translate approved architecture into development, UAT, staging, production, High Availability and Disaster Recovery environments. - Implement version-controlled Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and develop secure, reusable modules for repeatable customer environment builds. - Deploy, configure and manage OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms, including networking, ingress, storage, certificates, RBAC, secrets and workload resources. - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and cloud automation using approved tools such as Ansible, Helm, GitOps, Python and Bash/Shell. - Apply cloud security, compliance and governance requirements across IAM/RBAC, encryption, secrets, network controls, operating systems and platform configuration. - Implement backup, High Availability and Disaster Recovery practices and validate recovery against defined RTO and RPO requirements where applicable. - Monitor performance, availability, security and cost; optimize scalability, resilience, capacity and cloud spending without compromising service requirements. - Assess and support infrastructure and workload migrations, including dependencies, cutover planning, rollback, validation and post-migration stabilization. - Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, cloud-platform, CI/CD and deployment issues during implementation, testing, go-live and major technical escalations. - Complete production-readiness checks, acceptance evidence, knowledge transfer and formal handover; routine operational ownership remains with Production Support. - Develop cloud and infrastructure standards, architecture records, reusable modules, implementation guides, operational runbooks and support documentation. - Collaborate with developers, security teams, architects, DBAs, network specialists, project teams and customers to deliver complete working environments. - Use approved AI tools for IaC, pipeline development, automation, troubleshooting and documentation. Review, test and security-validate outputs and protect confidential data in line with company policy. ### Must-haves (to thrive in this role) ### Experience & education - 5+ years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure or system engineering. - Proven experience independently building and implementing customer or production environments end to end, including migration and production go-live activities. - A degree in computer science or a related field, or an equivalent qualification. ### Cloud, platforms & infrastructure - Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or an equivalent enterprise platform. - Experience with on-premises or hybrid infrastructure, not only public cloud. - Hands-on experience with OpenShift and/or production-grade Kubernetes, together with strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills. - Strong knowledge of networking, IAM, compute, storage, databases, load balancing, DNS, firewalls, private connectivity and TLS. ### Automation - Strong hands-on Terraform experience, including reusable modules, state management, version control and controlled infrastructure changes. - Experience building CI/CD pipelines and automation using Ansible, Python, Bash/Shell or equivalent tools. ### Operations & collaboration - Experience with cloud monitoring, security, compliance, backup, HA/DR, scalability and cost optimization. - Strong troubleshooting, customer-facing communication, documentation and cross-team collaboration skills, with responsible adoption of approved AI tools. ### Location & language You work from one of our offices in Leipzig, Erfurt or Ilmenau 3 days per week – or, if you live further away in Germany, you can come to one of our offices about once a month. Our company language is English - good English skills are a must. ### Nice-to-haves (great if you have them, but not a dealbreaker) ### Platforms & tooling - Advanced OpenShift, EKS, AKS or comparable enterprise container-platform experience. - Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, Flux, GitOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or GitHub Actions. - Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or comparable tooling. ### Experience & certifications - Hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud landing zones, migrations, upgrades and modernisation. - Relevant cloud, Terraform, OpenShift or Kubernetes certifications and exposure to FinOps, enterprise security or regulated environments. - Utilities, energy, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), smart metering, HES or MDMS experience. ### Why us? - Working model: Hybrid in one of our offices or remote within Germany - depending on where you live. - Flexibility: Flexible working hours & workation option (up to 4 weeks per year). - Mobility: 50% subsidy for the Germany ticket and bike leasing. - Security: Company pension scheme and capital-forming benefits. - Culture: Short decision-making paths, open feedback culture and genuine trust. - Onboarding: A structured onboarding plan and a buddy to support you from day one. - Office Life: We enjoy spending time together in our offices - whether for a coffee, a shared lunch or a spontaneous after-work get-together. - Impact: Meaningful work - software that shapes the energy market of tomorrow. --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). 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