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