DevOps Architect

Our client is one of Europe’s largest energy companies, operating extensive electricity and gas distribution networks and serving over 47–50 million customers across the continent. Their infrastructure-spanning 1.6 million km of distribution grid-is a critical backbone of Europe’s shift toward green, digital, and decentralized energy systems.

They are a major driver of the energy transition, investing heavily in modernization, renewable integration, smart metering, and digital customer solutions.

To support the development and strengthen the team, our client is looking a Senior hands-on specialist who has designed and built enterprise DevOps platforms-not just configured single-team setups. The role demands strong architectural ability, stakeholder management, secure-by-design thinking, and proven experience delivering multi-tenant ADO environments, including migration strategy and automation, validated through pilots and early adopters.

What you will do:

• Design a governed Azure DevOps platform including pipelines (YAML), repos, artifacts, agent pools, and permission models.
• Build enterprise-ready architecture aligned with E.ON’s scale, security posture, and organizational structure.
• Implement multi‑tenant isolation, RBAC boundaries, and controlled access patterns.
• Translate enterprise security requirements into platform guardrails and CI/CD governance.
• Integrate SAST, SCA, DAST, secret scanning into CI/CD with enforceable policy gates.
• Automate onboarding, provisioning, and standardization using IaC templates and reusable components.
• Define and execute phased migration plans with pilots, coexistence, and rollback strategies.
• Create clear architecture documentation, operational guidelines, and onboarding materials for teams.
• Provide reference implementations to accelerate adoption across development teams.
• Support our client's teams with enablement sessions and ongoing platform best‑practice guidance.

What you need to succeed:

• Azure DevOps (ADO) – Expert-level knowledge of pipelines (YAML), repos, artifacts, agent pools, permissions, and enterprise governance design.
• Enterprise Platform Architecture – Proven experience designing and building environments for large enterprise customers.
• Multi-tenancy – Strong understanding of isolation models, RBAC boundaries, shared services, and audit requirements.
• Security & Compliance by Design – Ability to translate enterprise security requirements into platform guardrails and CI/CD governance.
• SDLC Security Understanding – Strong knowledge of integrating SAST, SCA, secret scanning, and DAST into CI/CD patterns and policy gates.
• Automation / IaC Mindset – Strong capability to automate provisioning, onboarding, and standardization (templates, scripts, IaC).
• Migration Approaches – Experience defining and executing phased migration strategies with pilots, coexistence, and rollback planning.
• Documentation & Enablement – Produce clear architecture docs, onboarding guides, and reference implementations for teams.

What are we offering:

• 22 annual vacation days, 3 sick days that are not carried to the next year (no medical certificate required)
• A seniority day is added every 3 years in the company.
• Floating days - free day for every public holiday that falls on the weekend, with the exception of holidays which always fall during the weekend.
• Performance-based annual bonus prorated according to the number of worked months in a year.
• Private medical insurance
• Access to an online benefit platform, with a monthly allowance of 690 RON, which you can choose to invest in different wellbeing, financial, or retail packages.
• Financial support for the birth of your child or unhappy events
• A work culture based on cooperation and development - customized learning paths through external providers as well as special development programs.
• We offer remote work flexibility, driven by smart working principles and aligned with team goals and values.
• Wellbeing initiatives to encourage a healthy work life balance through webinars, specialized sessions, and internal programs, per our colleagues’ input.
• In close cooperation is a value we live by, through moments that matter, like recurring hangout parties, team buildings, team bonding events.