Cloud Platform Engineer (m/f/d) | Remote (Germany or Switzerland) | Full-time

_You want full ownership of a group's 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're 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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