Application Cloud Engineer | Contract | 6 months

Job Title: Application Cloud Engineer
Duration: Immediate start until the end of March 2027
Location: 40% on site in Baden, Switzerland (60% remote)

Background
To ensure a timely migration to Azure for all AO&L applications, we require an experienced Azure expert to support our application owners in the company-wide Azure migration project.

Tasks/Responsibilities
The Cloud engineer will have a key role in bridging between application owners and infrastructure team.

Support application owners in the migration of their applications
Assess existing on-prem applications and their underlying infrastructure, translate both into suitable Azure target architectures following internal guidelines
Configure and validate networking, firewall rules, access management, security controls, monitoring, backup and operational readiness in collaboration with infrastructure engineers
Deploy and maintain Azure resources using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible)
Support application testing, defect resolution, cutover activities and post-migration stabilization
Work closely with application owners, infrastructure engineers, security and platform teams
Contribute to continuous improvement of migration patterns, infrastructure-as-code modules and deployment processes
Provide technical guidance and help coordinate activities across the involved teams


Experience - Skills/Experience Required

5+ years of experience in Azure engineering, cloud infrastructure or application-focused cloud migration
Proven experience migrating applications from on-premises Windows Server environments to Azure or comparable private-cloud environments
Strong hands-on experience with Azure services, landing-zone principles, networking, identity and access management, security and monitoring
Practical experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform/Ansible), including reusable modules, state management and controlled deployments
Understanding of application dependencies, deployment processes, release management and operational handover
Effective stakeholder communication and teamwork in a multi-disciplinary environment
Fluent English and good professional German are mandatory


Experience - Additional skills that would be considered as plus:

Experience in the energy, utilities or energy-trading sector
Azure certifications
Project management skills