You want full ownership of a groups Azure and hybrid environment - not just tickets, but the architecture, the governance, and the direction it takes? Then help shape the infrastructure behind an international niche world leader in Omega-3 technology.
Salary: €60,000 - 80,000 / year, depending on experience | Permanent | Immediate start | Remote within Europe (proximity to our Bexbach site is a plus)
Why join us?
- Real ownership: you shape the Azure/hybrid environment, not just maintain it
- Remote-first role across Europe, with occasional touchpoints at our Bexbach site
- Small, hands-on team working closely with security, application teams, and sites worldwide
- Individual career and development opportunities in an internationally operating company
About us - in brief
Headquartered in Bexbach, KD Pharma Group is a mid-sized, internationally active company and one of the world's few manufacturers of Omega-3 concentrates with a purity of up to 99.5% - built on a sole focus on Omega-3 fatty acid research and technology development.
Tasks
- Infrastructure rationalisation: simplify the server estate, on-premises and in Azure; retire or replace unsupported systems and reduce technical debt
- Azure platform: design, run, and improve the Azure and hybrid environment - compute, networking, storage, and identity through Microsoft Entra ID and Conditional Access; support the App Development team with the environments they need
- Device management: manage devices and applications group-wide through Intune, with consistent policies across sites
- Application delivery: decide the right delivery method for each application, starting with reducing reliance on Azure Virtual Desktop
- Governance and cost: establish clear standards, policies, and tagging across Azure; keep spend visible and under control
- Resilience and monitoring: ensure backup, disaster recovery, and monitoring are reliable, tested, and provide early warning of issues
- Security partnership: work with the security function to implement controls, keep servers patched, and resolve vulnerabilities as they are identified
Requirements
Must-have
- Strong hands-on experience running Azure infrastructure: compute, networking (VNets, NSGs, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute), storage, with PowerShell automation
- Experience managing on-premises Windows servers alongside Azure in a hybrid environment
- A track record of rationalising infrastructure and reducing technical debt (e.g. consolidating servers, replacing unsupported systems)
- Microsoft Intune at scale, including device enrolment and application deployment
- Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, and MFA
- Backup, disaster recovery, and monitoring (Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Monitor)
- Confidence working across teams and sites, explaining technical choices to non-technical colleagues
Nice-to-have
- Azure Virtual Desktop, including migrating users and applications to other delivery methods
- Azure governance and cost management (Azure Policy, tagging, Microsoft Cost Management)
- Azure Arc for managing on-premises servers
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel
- Experience supporting development teams (e.g. Azure App Service, Azure DevOps, GitHub)
- Infrastructure as code (Bicep or Terraform)
- Experience in a regulated environment, such as GxP
- Microsoft certifications, such as AZ-104 or MD-102
Benefits
- Remote-first within Europe, with flexibility to work from anywhere in your time zone region
- Individual career and development opportunities in an internationally operating company
- Competitive compensation with Christmas and vacation bonuses
- Company pension scheme
- Free water and coffee
- Company products at employee prices
- Regular team events
Remote (Europe) | Immediate start | Full-time
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Cloud Platform Engineer (m/f/d) - Remote (Europe) - Full-time in Bexbach Arbeitgeber: KD Pharma Group
Die KD Pharma Group ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der seinen Mitarbeitern eine abwechslungsreiche und herausfordernde Rolle mit einem hohen Maß an persönlicher Verantwortung bietet. In einem engagierten und kompetenten Team profitieren Sie von individuellen Karriere- und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten in einem international tätigen Unternehmen, das sich durch eine offene und unterstützende Arbeitskultur auszeichnet. Zudem erwarten Sie faire Vergütung, zusätzliche Leistungen wie Weihnachts- und Urlaubsgeld sowie zahlreiche Mitarbeitervorteile, die das Arbeiten in Bexbach zu einer lohnenden Erfahrung machen.
