Senior Business Continuity and Azure Resilience Architect (f/m/d)

Our Architecture & Optimization within Trading IT is looking for you!

We are Uniper

At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!

Your responsibilities

Uniper’s IT applications in Trading and Selling Energy Commodities run on Azure and are managed by Uniper IT, our in-house IT function. Our IT landscape on the Azure Cloud focuses strongly on Business Continuity Management (BCM) and High Availability. To further strengthen our IT Resilience, we have set up a dedicated program of work and are looking for an experienced BCM and Resilience Architect.

You will join our Düsseldorf team of international Senior IT Solution, Security, and Enterprise Architects who guide internal and external development teams in defining and advancing IT architecture to meet business and IT needs. In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to discuss business continuity requirements and ensure the cloud IT architecture meets those needs, considering IT cost and possible workarounds

• Guide the design of cloud architectures that prioritize resilience, incorporating redundancy, failover mechanisms, and other techniques to maximize robustness and minimize recovery times

• Evaluate different resiliency patterns, such as redundancy or break-glass procedures, and their impact on operations, complexity, and performance

• Advance monitoring and alerting systems to quickly detect deviations from normal operations and initiate analysis and recovery actions

• Align with our Information Security Architects to protect Uniper’s IT assets

• Establish a continuous resilience improvement practice based on operational data such as incidents, resolution times, RCAs, and cloud cost consumption

Your profile

• Excellent communication and presentation skills to collaborate effectively with both business and IT teams on resilience options and trade-offs
• Proven Azure Cloud Architecture expertise
• Deep understanding of Azure cloud resiliency patterns
• Development experience is an advantage
• English is our working language; German skills are a plus but not required

Your benefits

At Uniper, we not only reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent company pension and health related benefits for their hard work and dedication to shaping the future energy transition. You can also expect a supportive working culture that offers a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. We enable various flexible working arrangements, whilst also supporting with home office equipment.

Through regular training and workshops, together we work towards visualising yourself in our company as if it were your own. We support you in highlighting your individual potential, achieving your personal goals, and reaching your ambitions. We invite you to become part of our diverse company with international colleagues from more than 80 countries. As an employer, Uniper has committed itself to providing special support to certain areas:

Work-Life-Balance / New Normal:

• Choosing how, where, and when to work in accordance with your team and the requirements of your job
• Modern and ergonomic equipment for your workplace (home & office)
• Support to balance private life and work: Sabbaticals, part-time possibilities, family service

Mobility:

• Car and bike leasing offer (deferred compensation)
• E-car charging stations at almost all Uniper locations

Health offers:

• Flu vaccination
• Preventive health services
• Employee assistance program

Company pension:

• Employer-funded contributions to a modern pension system
• Possibility of self-funded contributions with employer-funded matching

Trainings:

• Lifelong training
• Coaching

Our employees are the reason for our success. Therefore, you will find many other benefits at the local level to help you reach your potential. Energy evolutionary wanted!

Your contact

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

[email protected]

Attention! Please apply via the button in this portal. Application documents that reach us by post will not be returned and, like those we receive by e-mail, can unfortunately not be considered!

Job information

As an employer, Uniper is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. Therefore, we encourage applications from suitably qualified individuals whose capabilities match the role requirements regardless of gender, origin, disability, age, religion, ideology, sexual identity or marital status. We live inclusion and support flexible working.