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October 10, 2026

Cloud Infrastructure Solutions Team Lead

Senior • On-site

50,000 - 80,000 EUR/yr

Essen, Germany

Quick Facts

  • Role: Cloud Infrastructure Solutions Team Lead

Description

Lead the Cloud Infrastructure Solutions team (technical and people leadership) responsible for operating and evolving the organization’s Microsoft Azure platform. You own secure, economical, and regulation-compliant operations including service levels and major incident management, and act as a strategic partner for management, product, and business teams. You drive platform engineering, governance, connectivity, automation, compliance, security, and risk management while coordinating with external service providers.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical and disciplinary leadership for the Cloud Infrastructure Solutions team, develop engineers, and foster an engineering culture

  • Ensure safe, cost-effective, and regulation-compliant operation of the enterprise-wide Microsoft Azure platform (service levels, major incidents)

  • Partner with management, product, and business teams and coordinate collaboration with external service providers

  • Advance strategic development of platform engineering, governance, and connectivity; translate into tactical and strategic measures

  • Continuously improve the cloud platform and capabilities in governance, automation, and platform engineering

  • Manage cloud cost, compliance, security, and risk management to ensure sustainable platform value

Requirements

  • Degree in (Business) Informatics, Business Administration with IT focus, or equivalent qualification

  • Several years of leadership experience managing and developing IT teams

  • Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure (IaaS, PaaS)

  • Experience with Landing Zone Deployment, Management Groups, Azure Policy, Log Analytics Workspace, Service Health Alerts, or self-hosted DevOps agents

  • Broad understanding of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD)

  • Excellent German and English (written and spoken); Polish is a plus

  • AZ-900 and AZ-204 certifications

Benefits

  • Modern working environment (ALDI Nord Campus) and hybrid work model (up to 40% mobile)

  • Flexible working hours and 30 vacation days (full-time)

  • Onboarding and training opportunities for professional and personal development

  • Fitness studio and fitness partnerships, plus corporate benefits

  • Performance-based pay and a secure job

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