Cloud Engineer (Azure)

About the job Cloud Engineer (Azure) Location: Zurich, Switzerland (2-3 days on-site) Workload: 60% -100% Duration: 6 months Language: English (German not required) This role strongly requires hands-on Azure experience and a clear willingness to work in Operations & Support. This is not a pure DevOps engineering or architecture role. Candidates must be comfortable taking operational responsibility, handling incidents, and ensuring stable day-to-day operations of cloud infrastructure. What You'll Do Keep cloud infrastructure services running reliably and act as the primary contact when issues arise Monitor systems, investigate incidents, and resolve infrastructure problems across Azure cloud and on‑prem environments Take over operational responsibilities from existing teams and establish sustainable operations through runbooks and automation Support R&D squads with infrastructure-related questions, onboarding, and troubleshooting Continuously improve operational workflows by identifying recurring issues, automating manual tasks, and reducing operational overhead Help evolve the service catalogue by identifying gaps, improving existing offerings, and automating repetitive work Requirements Mandatory Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (designing, operating, or supporting workloads) Willingness to work in Operations & Support as a core part of the role Practical experience with Linux systems Experience with container orchestration, especially Kubernetes Hands-on knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform or similar) Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks Solid understanding of networking concepts (DNS, firewalls, VPNs, network segmentation) Strong sense of ownership and responsibility for running systems Clear ambition to grow into an infrastructure engineering role, not remain in pure support long-term Fluent English SThree_Germany is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.