Working Student /t AWS Cloud Support in Essen bei RWE

• Location(s):
• Essen, NW, DE, 45141

RWE Supply & Trading GmbH
To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent

Department Insights

“RWE Supply & Trading is the interface between the RWE Group’s operating companies and global wholesale markets for energy and energy-related raw materials and is a leading European energy trading house”.

We as “Central Services” Team are positioned within RWEST IT with our team members located across Essen(Germany) and Swindon (UK).

As part of our DevOps transformation journey we have three different SQUADS within the team. System Analyst role is focused on providing and maintaining 24*7 mission critical value chain applications and infrastructure with emphasis on areas of root cause analysis, researches problems via monitoring solutions(Dashboards) and providing out of business hour supports. It focuses on continuous improvement of applications processes through enhance automations, monitoring and helps supports in maintaining those. System Analysts ensures reliability of systems by performing system problem solving, meeting with users to define business needs. Their goal is to work closely with business and IT stakeholders in quick issue resolutions in the context of an Incident Management, Problem Management, CI/CD deployment.

Your future plans

• Communication management towards stakeholders and strategic thinking of application roadmap/delivery plans.
• Steers and provides operations support by analysing systems, researching problems and maintenance/coordination of different applications.
• Provides periodic analysis and setting up of automated monitoring application processes and workflows with Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Continuous improvements of processes through e.g. innovative ideas, enhance automations/monitoring with platforms like Elastic(Kibana), RPA etc.
• Root cause analysis for fixing problems permanently by debugging the components.
• Gather specific requirements from business and embedded IT teams to provide solutions via working in incidents and service requests.
• Coordination and work closely with business and IT stakeholders in quick issue resolutions in the context of an Incident Management, Problem Management and configurations/User Management.
• Provide Initial Bug Fixes, Change Requests and enhancements for different applications.
• DevOps and Cloud : Automate the building, testing and deployment of different components with Azure DevOps pipelines and container standards such as Docker, Helm and Kubernetes.
• Migration of legacy application to Cloud based projects (AWS) / Multi-account setup etc.
• Readiness in shift rotations with 24*7 oncall and occasional travel required.

Your powerful skills

• Experience in any of these programming languages like Java, C#, .net core or any framework like Camel, Maven, etc.
• Knowledge of any messaging bus like ActiveMQ, Kafka etc.
• Any basic knowledge of API’s handson (e.g: Swagger IDL etc.)
• CI/CD deployment pipeline involving Azure DevOps, Team City, Git, Jenkins etc.
• Experience in at least one scripting (powershell, phython) and database (ORACLE, MS SQL, MongoDB, Postgres or Snowflake) language.
• Ability to work well under pressure and Strong communication.
• Demonstrated ability with good analytical skills and soft skills to communicate and collaborate within a team
• Basic knowledge in customer support , requirements analysis and alignment with existing systems.
• Interest in gaining IT Operations best practises and DevOps

Advantageous

• First experience with supporting large IT applications and/or basic knowledge in Energy Trading Domain is an asset.
• Knowledge with AWS infrastructures and services (e.g. Lambda, S3, Kubernetes, EKS, EC2, CloudWatch, Containerization) is an add on.
• Experience in IaC (e.g. Cloudformation, CDK and / or Terraform)
• Automating of existing processes with creating of dashboards in any monitoring tools via Elastic(Kibana), Phython etc.

Benefits you can rely

• A job on Europe’s largest Energy Trading Floor.
• Modern RWE Supply & Trading company culture with flat hierarchies and a very good team spirit.
• Interesting tasks with direct contact to Energy Traders.
• Enjoy working in a team of more than 11 international members
• Working in an agile setup on things that matter
• Gain further experience with a key applications in Energy Trading Industry
• Strong influence on shaping a newly build strategy
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