At WS Audiology, Research & Development is about understanding people – and building awareness about how our hearing aids can change their lives. We are now looking for an experienced Cloud Solution Architect (m/f/d) to join our Cloud Infrastructure, Security & DevOps team.

About WSA

WS Audiology combines over 140 years of experience in pioneering better solutions to help people with hearing loss. With a passion for impact, our around 12.000 employees are committed to achieving our purpose: wonderful sound for all. With brands like Signia, Widex, Audio Service, Rexton and Vibe, and with diverse assets across wholesale, retail, online, managed care and diagnostic solutions, we are active in over 125 markets. Going beyond together, we achieve annual revenues of around EUR 2 billion.
         

A bit about us

Based out of our R&D department, you will be joining the Cloud Infrastructure, Security & DevOps team, consisting of skilled DevOps- & Site Reliability engineers. The team – that is part of a SAFE train – is responsible for building & maintaining a modern large scale cloud environment that enables WS Audiology to release software in an efficient, secure & reliable manner.

The team is based both in HQ in Lynge, Denmark OR at our site in Erlangen, Germany.

A bit about the role

At WS Audiology, Research & Development is about understanding people – and building awareness about how our hearing aids can change their lives. We are now looking for an experienced Cloud Solution Architect (m/f/d) to join our Cloud Infrastructure, Security & DevOps team based in our R&D department at the HQ in Lynge, Denmark OR at our site in Erlangen, Germany.

As Solution Architect (m/f/d) for Cloud Infrastructure & Security you will play a critical role in building WS Audiology’s next generation cloud-based hearing aid software - used by Hearing Care Professionals to help serve their patient's needs.

You will have the following tasks and responsibilities:

• Together with other architects define the architectural roadmap required to fulfill general business needs – especially with regards to infrastructure & security
• Drive architecture and designs for various cloud infrastructure services on the Microsoft Azure platform
• Contribute - together with other SME’s – in prioritizing, scoping & refining individual roadmap items
• Coach & support development teams to help them create “best in class” cloud solutions
• Work closely with other systems architects, software- & hardware architects and hearing aid specialist to ensure solid overall system design
• Join cross-functional architecture team and bring your cloud infrastructure knowledge to the table on various system design topics
• Contribute to WS Audiology’s cloud technology strategy for shared cloud services across multiple products

A bit about you

We expect you to be able to recognize yourself in some of the following:

• 5+ years’ experience in- & deep understanding of Azure Cloud development or similar field
• Background in Software Development
• MA in Computer Science, Engineering or similar relevant experience
• Previous experience working with large scale cloud-based systems
• Communicate well in English, both orally and in writing

Furthermore, you can say yes to having knowledge and are able to work with some of the following:

• Azure infrastructure
• Azure development, .NET Core/C# based,
• Infrastructure as Code (e.g., ARM/Bicep/Terraform)
• Modern DevOps and deployment automation practices
• Azure DevOps - including build and release pipelines
• Security & Reliability minded
• Cosmos DB, Functions, API management, Traffic Manager, SQL, Web Apps.
• Modern architectures (e.g., Microservices, clean architecture)
• Containerization (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)

And beyond your professional qualifications, we are looking for the following:

You are a self-starter and takes initiative and ownership when something is not working. Furthermore, you are the type of profile, that give inputs to and suggestions for, how processes can be improved.

You are able to both give and receive constructive feedback and people will see you as a structured problem solver, that are not afraid to dive into new technologies or concepts by yourself.

Last but not least, we would expect you to be able to set the direction and make people follow you and, you do so through your good communication skills, in order to ensure your peers are with you.

What we would like to offer you

The working environment at WS Audiology is informal with helpful, skilled and enthusiastic colleagues. Our mentality is result-oriented, and we have focus on creating the best possible products and always improving our competences.

Our values focus on teamwork across functions, pioneering as well as having the passion to make an impact. So, if you can see yourself in those values, you will fit right in. We offer flexible working times & opportunities for working from home.

Depending on your work location (Lynge or Erlangen), we offer different employer benefits like contributions to the company pension plan, health insurance etc.

Join us

Please submit your application as soon as possible. We will screen and invite candidates for interviews on an ongoing basis.