Lead Engineer for Cloud Services

The Product Technology area develops and maintains the applications to manage DE-CIX products globally. Within that area, the Cloud Services Team is responsible for all DE-CIX cloud connectivity-related services (like DirectCLOUD or DE-CIX Cloud ROUTER) offered to customers at our Internet or Cloud Exchange Points.

The lead engineer is responsible for both technical and people leadership, within the Cloud Services team.

• What to expect

Do you have experience in Terraform?, * 3-5 years in agile leadership or senior technical roles with a track record of managing complex projects and leading cross-functional teams, supported by strong communication, coaching, and team-building skills.

• Solid engineering background with experience in DevOps (CI/CD, monitoring), Linux/Docker/Kubernetes, automation using Python/PHP/Go, as well as practical knowledge of SQL/ORM, REST APIs, and clean-code principles (SOLID, DRY, KISS), including event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Ansible), cloud networking (AWS/Azure/GCP), and key routing and switching protocols such as BGP, OSPF, and VLANs.

Even more important to us than your professional qualifications are your passion for the technical possibilities of automation, your commitment to lifelong learning, and your strong sense of teamwork. Your mindset is guided by the question: "How is my team doing today, and what can I do to help them perform even better?"

• an appreciative corporate culture and trustful teamwork with like-minded specialists, as well as great working conditions (extensive personnel development measures, an occupational pension scheme, weekly language courses, a Deutschland ticket, health promotion, support on children care, eldercare, hybrid working model and many more)
• exciting and diverse challenges in an innovative and international environment, within the framework of a crisis-resistant permanent contract with the world's market leader in its sector
• last but not least extremely friendly and supportive colleagues

DE-CIX (Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange) is the world's leading operator of internet exchanges. At its locations in Europe, North America, the Middle East, India and Asia, DE-CIX connects thousands of network operators (carriers), internet service providers (ISP), content providers and company networks from more than 100 countries and offers peering, cloud and interconnection services. With a data volume of  almost 30 exabytes per year (as of 2021) and well over 1000 connected  networks, DE-CIX in Frankfurt am Main is one of the largest Internet nodes in the world.