Senior Cloud Consultant

The Senior Cloud Consultant within the business unit “GOIS GPS Global Project Delivery & Consulting” is responsible for supporting DB Schenker’s Global Cloud projects and activities building our modern multi-hybrid-cloud platform. It is part of the Global Platform team within the Global Operations and Infrastructure Services unit, providing IT solutions to Schenker all over the world. 

This role significantly contributes to the DB Schenker Cloud Journey by driving and supporting the onboarding activities of existing and new workloads to the Schenker Cloud Platform. Furthermore, this person will be part of the extended Cloud Services Team – evangelizing and training existing and fresh staff in a global environment in new ways of working

Responsibilities:

• Become part of a global team within the Global Platform Services located all over the world
• Develop and deliver Solution Designs for cloud and edge infrastructure components worldwide in an agile environment
• Support the transition/implementation of global application environments to the Schenker multi-hybrid-cloud
• Develop and implement new cloud services for customers of the Schenker Global Cloud Platform
• Ensure high system integrity and security of all delivered infrastructures and services, maintaining the global platform strategies to minimize risks
• Contribute to planning and implementation of fail-over and disaster recovery tests
• Design and develop automated processes (infrastructure as code) for deploying and maintaining components in Schenker Cloud and Non-Cloud platforms using DevOps principles and tools
• Act as entrepreneur towards DB Schenker teams and internal customers, maintaining a high degree of communication with the stakeholders

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience
• Several years of experience in IT related industries
• Multiple years of experience with enterprise grade cloud computing and orchestration (AWS mandatory, Azure and others are helpful)
• Agile mindset
• Profound experience in consulting and collaboration of application teams (DevOps mind-set) during migrations and/or new deployment of infrastructures for applications in global environments
• Profound experience in different Linux variants (RedHat, SuSe, Ubuntu)
• Solid experience in providing container services (AKS, EKS, Kubernetes native)
• Solid experience in applying Infrastructure as Code (IaC); preferred applied tool knowledge in IaC and CI-CD-Tooling (Terraform, CHEF, GIT, Jenkins or comparable)
• Minimum basic knowledge of ITIL processes
• Knowledge of IT security regulations and standards 
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively across diverse global organizations, groups, and functions
• Flexible and agile thinking able to operate in changing environments. 
• Willingness for occasional national and international travel
• Fluent Business English (written and spoken)