Senior Data Operations Engineer

Our Business Area (BA) Markets is looking for the right person to fill the position as

Cloud Data Ops Engineer (senior-level) for our office in Hamburg or Stockholm. 

In this role, you will take the lead for operations and development of the DevOps domain in our Data Warehouse product. You will be closely integrated into our team of Data Engineers and will also have the chance to gradually expand your expertise into the data engineering domain.

Your responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain scalable and automated data pipelines and our underlying infrastructure in Azure as well as managing and developing our CI/CD workflows, and the associated tools.
• Monitoring data infrastructure performance and proactively performing troubleshooting will also be in your responsibility while you can also develop our security and business continuity best-practices in collaboration with central IT and security teams.
• Closely collaborate with central IT teams, vendors and DevOps experts across the organization to mitigate and resolve incidents, plan and perform software updates and facilitate knowledge exchange.  
• Team up with our architect and data engineers to further improve the user experience, drive automation and make sure we apply state-of-the-art technologies.
• Join the team of data engineers and partner-up to design and implement new use cases from data source to report layer. We work with top-notch technologies like Snowflake, Matillion, Python and infrastructure tools like Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Take responsibility to ensure continuous operations of the data warehouse across all domains. I.e. ensure daily processes run smoothly and data is readily accessible for all users.
• Enjoy a high degree of self-responsibility and the possibility to expand your expertise towards areas of your interest.

Your profile

• Pro-active, self-driven team player with excellent communication skills and a broad interest across all technical domains is a must-have in this position.  
• At least three years hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable data solutions using Microsoft Azure cloud services. During this time, you were in the lead to develop and maintain DevOps build and release pipelines using e.g. Git.
• Sound practical experience with cloud infrastructure troubleshooting and understanding of networking components.
• Good hands-on experience with application containerization into Kubernetes, managing Kubernetes namespaces and containers, and experience with managing VM infrastructure.
• Comfortable maintaining, patching and configuring both Linux and Windows servers as admin. Proficiency with the scripting languages Python and Bash as well as with Linux will be required. Knowledge of Powershell would be a merit.  
• Experience with infrastructure provisioning and deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• University degree in Business and Information Technology, Engineering or other related fields and fluent in English, written and spoken.

As a merit you also have

• Experience with implementing observability best practices - logging, monitoring, and alerting using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, or Azure monitor. 
• It would ease your transition into the data engineering part of this role if you have hands-on experience with SQL based data modelling in a cloud data warehouse-environment. Previous experience with data orchestration tools, e.g. Matillion or Airflow will further simplify your onboarding. 

We welcome your application in English, no later than 18th of November 2025. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website. 

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our Recruiter Jil Ungethüm via phone at +49 40 79022 1378. 

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, called DISA. In addition, a certificate of good conduct (i.e. criminal record certificate) is required for certain positions.

The trade union representatives in Sweden can be reached via Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00. Sven-Gunnar Gremlin, Akademikerna and Anders Bohlin, Unionen.

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates might be subjected to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation. 

We look forward to receiving your application! 

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 21.000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.  

Right in the heart of Vattenfall, at Business Area (BA) Markets, you will find an inspiring international environment, with a culture of care and personal growth, enabling you to be who you are, having fun, building strong relationships and learning every day. Find out what our colleagues think about our culture: https://youtu.be/-9qGrDUCptA

We employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to drive the energy transition together. Our role in Vattenfall is to maximize the value of the overall portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging, and sourcing for Vattenfall's sales and generation volumes. We serve as Vattenfall’s single access to energy commodity markets and trade electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates.  

In BA Markets the mission of the Unit OU Operations is to drive the digital transformation. OU Operations consists of diverse and highly skilled employees from more than 20 countries. We work internationally from our locations in Stockholm, Hamburg and Amsterdam.