About the role
You want full ownership of a group's Azure and hybrid environment – not just tickets, but the architecture, the governance, and the direction it takes? Then help shape the infrastructure behind an international niche world leader in Omega-3 technology.
Salary: €60,000 – 80,000 / year, depending on experience | Permanent | Immediate start | Remote within Europe (proximity to our Bexbach site is a plus)
Why join us?
🎯 Real ownership: you shape the Azure/hybrid environment, not just maintain it
🌍 Remote-first role across Europe, with occasional touchpoints at our Bexbach site
🤝 Small, hands-on team working closely with security, application teams, and sites worldwide
📚 Individual career and development opportunities in an internationally operating company
About us – in brief
Headquartered in Bexbach, KD Pharma Group is a mid-sized, internationally active company and one of the world's few manufacturers of Omega-3 concentrates with a purity of up to 99.5% – built on a sole focus on Omega-3 fatty acid research and technology development.
Tasks
Infrastructure rationalisation: simplify the server estate, on-premises and in Azure; retire or replace unsupported systems and reduce technical debt
Azure platform: design, run, and improve the Azure and hybrid environment – compute, networking, storage, and identity through Microsoft Entra ID and Conditional Access; support the App Development team with the environments they need
Device management: manage devices and applications group-wide through Intune, with consistent policies across sites
Application delivery: decide the right delivery method for each application, starting with reducing reliance on Azure Virtual Desktop
Governance and cost: establish clear standards, policies, and tagging across Azure; keep spend visible and under control
Resilience and monitoring: ensure backup, disaster recovery, and monitoring are reliable, tested, and provide early warning of issues
Security partnership: work with the security function to implement controls, keep servers patched, and resolve vulnerabilities as they're identified
Requirements
Must-have
Strong hands-on experience running Azure infrastructure: compute, networking (VNets, NSGs, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute), storage, with PowerShell automation
Experience managing on-premises Windows servers alongside Azure in a hybrid environment
A track record of rationalising infrastructure and reducing technical debt (e.g. consolidating servers, replacing unsupported systems)
Microsoft Intune at scale, including device enrolment and application deployment
Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, and MFA
Backup, disaster recovery, and monitoring (Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Monitor)
Confidence working across teams and sites, explaining technical choices to non-technical colleagues
Nice-to-have
Azure Virtual Desktop, including migrating users and applications to other delivery methods
Azure governance and cost management (Azure Policy, tagging, Microsoft Cost Management)
Azure Arc for managing on-premises servers
Working knowledge of Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel
Experience supporting development teams (e.g. Azure App Service, Azure DevOps, GitHub)
Infrastructure as code (Bicep or Terraform)
Experience in a regulated environment, such as GxP
Microsoft certifications, such as AZ-104 or MD-102
Benefits
Remote-first within Europe, with flexibility to work from anywhere in your time zone region
Individual career and development opportunities in an internationally operating company
Competitive compensation with Christmas and vacation bonuses
Company pension scheme
Free water and coffee
Company products at employee prices
Regular team events
📍 Remote (Europe) | 📅 Immediate start | ⏳ Full-time
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