(Senior) Platform Engineer - AZURE d/f/m 1

• Location(s):
• Chicago, IL, US, 60654
• Essen, NW, DE, 45141
• Swindon, Wiltshire, GB, SN5 6PB

RWE Supply & Trading GmbH
To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent

Department Insights

Cloud and Data Center (C&DC) support servers, databases, storage, Azure Cloud & physical infrastructure for the whole of the RWE Group.

This support includes round-the-clock provision of platform services and development operations in collaboration with Managed Service Provider partners.

We are responsible for

• Engineering: Improving services & products to meet business needs. Design, consultancy, standard setting and 3rd line support.
• Automation & Development: accelerating & improving services through end-to-end automation & high quality code development
• Operations: daily operational support & financial management, including operational availability, deployment patching, incident resolution, request fulfilment.

Your responsibilities

• Senior technical expert & Product Owner/SME for Microsoft Azure platform; including Azure Landing Zone it's policies, tagging, subscription design & configuration, enabled services & products and contributing to security and network design & configuration.
• Be responsible for the specification, design & maintenance of good practice & support of RWE's Cloud and Data Centre (C&DC) Azure platform & Landing Zone in conjunction with our internal team, Cloud Service Providers (CSP) and Managed Service Providers (MSP).
• Communicate and define RWE IT requirements and standards to users of the Azure platform & MSP teams and ensure adherence as well as to provide technical leadership to all users groups.
• Co-ordinate & collaborate with other product owners & leads in order to maximise the potential of the team.
• Drive continuous service improvement including driving automation of operational processes & remediations; especially focusing on enhancing customer experience, reducing inefficiency & duplication, & accelerating speed to delivery.
• Create & Maintain forward looking roadmaps for Microsoft Azure platform; including dependent systems & processes, that support business & department objectives.
• Directly support Project deliveries that impact Microsoft Azure platform.
• Ensure all standard ITIL operating procedures are adhered to and monitor/actively manage the resolution of incidents, problems and change requests for Team.
• Ensure ITIL procedures are adhered to and monitor/actively manage the resolution of incidents, problems and change requests for Team.
• Provide guidance and support for team members to foster growth.

Your profile

• ~7 years technical IT work experience in Microsoft's Azure Platform; including Azure Landing Zone technology
• Experience of ARM, Terraform & other common cloud programming languages
• Experience governing externals or managed service providers.

• Strong understanding of cloud benefits and ideally extensive experience working with Azure.

• Strong communication and networking skills.
• Adept at both working autonomously and as part of a team to deliver solutions that tackle high complexity problems.

• Willingness to travel. Mostly (up to four days a month) between Germany and the UK. Global travel as required.

• Strong motivation to continuously improve knowledge on IT and soft skill topics.

• Ability to work closely with IT architects and project managers on both technical and planning topics in context related to the topic(s).

• Articulate complex technical topics in an understandable manner to staff members who are not in the technical detail.

• Understanding business and IT requirements, and translate into IT infrastructure solutions.

Advantageous, but not a must

• Knowledge and experience of interculture working.

• Open minded.

• Experience of user centric decision making.

• Self-confident speaking at all levels.

• Connecting people.

• Ready to adapt to organisational change.

• Attend IT events, summits, and other events to network with people from other companies and gain insights about new solutions and trends.

• Experience with recruitment & retention processes

Our offer

• Contributing to the Cloud and Data Centre journey from the start and influencing the operational and roadmap decisions.
• Responsibility for IT services used by all RWE staff globally.
• Dynamic environment with opportunity to own digital change and improvements.
• Daily interaction with key customers across all RWE OpCos.
• Working closely with multi-national external service providers.
• Competitive salary and benefits package plus annual discretionary bonus.
• Open and diverse company culture.
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working.

rwe.com/career

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Any questions? Vince Manning (Recruiting), +44 7585 981083,Chris Smith(specialist department),+44 7833 236064
We look forward to meeting you!

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RWE Supply & Trading is the interface between RWE and the energy markets around the world. Approximately 2000 employees from over 50 different countries trade (renewable) electricity, (green) gas, commodities and CO2 emission allowances. The trading entity also ensures the commercial optimisation of RWE's power plant dispatch and markets electricity from renewables.