Data Cloud Engineer (m/f/d) - Essen

Requirements

Must have:

• Solid hands-on experience with Terraform and Git
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for IaC on a major cloud (Azure, AWS, or GCP) using modern tooling (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI). Azure experience is beneficial but not required
• Working knowledge of data platform services on a major cloud: Databricks, storage, secrets, policy / compliance, and monitoring; familiarity with orchestration is a plus
• Strong networking fundamentals: VNets, subnetting, DNS, firewalls / NSGs, private endpoints
• Ideally, experience with DevOps / DataOps best practices: code reviews, automated validation / security scanning (e.g., tflint, tfsec, Checkov), policy-as-code, drift detection
• Bonus: Data engineering experience with Spark / Databricks (PySpark / SQL), ETL / ELT, Delta Lake / Lakehouse, analytics modeling (star scheme; Power BI), orchestration
• Structured, self-directed, collaborative, and solution-oriented; strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders; fluent in English; German is beneficial

Responsibilities:

• You technically own and evolve our international analytics platform, driving a fully automated GitOps-style Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) setup with Terraform on Azure
• You build reusable Terraform modules and manage remote state, versioning, and promotion across environments
• You design and automate CI/CD for infrastructure and platform changes (validation, testing, security scans, approvals)
• You operate the platform with a reliability and cost-conscious mindset: observability / alerting, cost guardrails, drift detection, and disaster recovery
• You implement security and networking by design (RBAC / managed identities, network segmentation, private endpoints, DNS, policies)
• You manage core data platform services - including Databricks - as code
• You partner with data and analytics teams, as well as tech foundation, security, networking, and compliance; you communicate clearly, translate requirements, and facilitate cross-team decisions

Company:

We are the ALDI Nord group, one of the leading food retailers committed to providing quality products at low prices. With a strong presence across Europe in 8 countries, we pride ourselves on our talented team of over 91,000 employees. We offer a modern work environment, flexible working hours, a hybrid working model, 30 vacation days, and many other benefits such as free electric charging, a company gym, structured onboarding, and opportunities for personal and professional development. Join us to be part of our mission to make shopping as easy as possible and contribute to our success story.

Benefits:

• MinSalary: 25000 EUR
• Remote Model: Hybrid
• Country Code: de