About This Role
This engineering role focuses on implementing, operating, and supporting secure, scalable cloud, infrastructure, and network services across Azure and hybrid environments. The successful candidate will help maintain critical services, ensuring they are fast, resilient, and cost-efficient, while delivering high standards of reliability and security. This position is ideal for a hands-on third-line engineer who enjoys cloud, automation, and networking, and is committed to enhancing security.
Responsibilities
- Deploy and support Azure and on-premise infrastructure, including hybrid and multi-cloud integrations
- Lead cloud migration activities in line with approved designs and change controls
- Build infrastructure as code using Terraform and develop CI/CD pipelines for automated, reliable deployments
- Deliver secure, scalable network infrastructure across cloud and on-premise environments
- Administer and support Microsoft 365 services
- Monitor, troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, network and service issues in line with agreed SLAs
- Own patching, hardening, secure configuration and vulnerability remediation
- Investigate security alerts and support incident response, recovery and root cause analysis
- Mentor colleagues and drive continuous improvement
Requirements
- Proven experience as an Infrastructure or Network Engineer in enterprise environments
- Strong Azure skills, including compute, networking, VNets, NSGs, Load Balancer, ExpressRoute and gateways, as well as hybrid and on-premise environments
- Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Terraform infrastructure as code and scripting using PowerShell, Bash or Python
- Solid networking fundamentals, including LAN, WAN, VPN, DNS and DHCP
- Experience with Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Intune, Azure AD and ITIL-aligned service management
- Experience with incident response, SLAs, patching, hardening and vulnerability management
- Experience with VMware or Hyper-V
- Awareness of ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS2 and CIS
- Excellent English communication skills and a collaborative, mentoring style
Nice to have:
- Experience with Fortinet, including FortiGate SD-WAN, firewalls and FortiManager
- Knowledge of the Azure Well-Architected Framework and experience with on-premise to Azure migrations
- Experience supporting ISO 27001-certified environments
Preferred certifications:
- Azure Administrator certification
- Microsoft administrator-level certifications
- ITIL Foundation or higher
- Fortinet NSE certification
Important Details
- Contract: initial 6-month contract
- Work format: hybrid - 3 days per week in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
About the Company
Our client is looking for an Infrastructure & Network Engineer to implement, operate and support secure, scalable cloud, infrastructure and network services across Azure and hybrid environments. You will help keep critical services fast, resilient and cost-efficient, delivering engineering work to high standards of reliability and security. This role is ideal for a hands-on third-line engineer who enjoys cloud, automation and networking, and is committed to raising the security bar.
