Our Platform Engineering Team in Düsseldorf 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
Position Summary:
You will be the technical lead for site reliability for our algorithmic trading and other key platforms—owning reliability, performance, and operational excellence end-to-end.
you’ll set the technical direction, drive standards, mentor engineers, and partner with quants, traders, development, and other teams to deliver geo-redundant, containerized, and compliant trading systems with near-zero downtime.
Your Responsibilities:
Reliability ownership: Define and drive SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and golden signals for latency-sensitive algo-trading services; lead incident response and postmortems with a blameless culture.
Production architecture: Design and evolve geo-redundant, active-active/active-passive topologies across regions and availability zones, including failover, data replication, and disaster recovery (RTO/RPO).
Kubernetes at scale: Architect, harden, and operate AKS-based multi-cluster environments (multi-tenant, multi-region), including networking, security, autoscaling, node pools, and upgrade strategies.
Infrastructure as Code: Own Terraform blueprints and Ansible automations for everything from base images to cluster add-ons, ensuring idempotent, policy-guarded, and auditable changes.
Automation & Efficiency: Build progressive delivery (blue/green, canary) pipelines with gated rollouts and automated rollback for trading microservices, adapters, market data, and execution gateways.
Observability & performance: Implement end-to-end tracing (OpenTelemetry), metrics, logs, and synthetic probes; lead capacity planning, perf tests, and p99/p999 latency optimization.
Runtime safety: Enforce runtime security, secrets management, image hygiene, and compliance controls integrated “shift-left” into build and deploy workflows.
Algo-trading runtime: Operate and optimize Deltix-based components (Timebase DB, Ember, Strategy Server) in containerized, high-availability setups.
Own the corresponding Helm charts.
Collaboration & leadership: Mentor SREs/DevOps/Developers, guide design reviews, and align with Platform, Security, and Trading stakeholders on priorities and roadmaps.
Innovation: Promote a culture of innovation by staying up to date with new technologies and integrating useful advancements into the commercial area.
Your profile
Your profile:
A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or other related discipline
Experience:
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.Health offers:
Company pension:
Trainings:
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!